born March 1, 1922, Jerusalem
died Nov. 4, 1995, Tel Aviv–Yafo, Israel
First native-born prime minister of Israel.
He fought in the first Six-Day War in 1967. After retiring from the army (1968), he served as ambassador to the U.S. (1968–73). As head of the Israel Labour Party , he twice served as prime minister (1974–77, 1992–95). During his first tenure, he secured a cease-fire with Syria in the Golan Heights and ordered the raid at Entebbe, Ugan. (see Entebbe raid ). As defense minister (1984–90) he responded forcefully to the Palestinian first intifādah . In 1993 secret negotiations with the Palestinians yielded a political settlement that called for limited Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank , for which he shared the 1994 Nobel Prize for Peace with {{link=Peres, Shimon">Shimon Peres and Yāsir Arafāt . He was assassinated by a right-wing Jewish extremist.