Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli politician and statesman who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Israel from 1974 to 1977 and again from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. He was a central figure in the Oslo Accords, a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing extremist, at a peace rally in Tel Aviv on November 4, 1995.