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.]] In 1933, she emigrated with her family to Palestine where she met her future husband, Yitzhak Rabin, at school. They married in 1948, the year of Israel's independence. In 1977 a US Dollar bank account held by Lea Rabin was exposed (this act was forbidden at that time by Israeli currency regulators). As a result, Yitzhak Rabin decided to take responsibility on his wife's account and resigned from office. Lea Rabin supported the peace efforts of her husband in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and worked further for a solution after his assassination. She wrote a book about her memories of her husband, which was released in 1997, under the name ''Rabin: Our Life, His Legacy''. She supported Shimon Peres in the elections of 1996. She also expressed her disappointment after he lost the elections to Benjamin Netanyahu . In election of 1999 she supported Ehud Barak . However, during Barak's term as prime minster she changed her opinions about him. She was especially disturbed by the fact that he was negotiating a territorial compromise in Jerusalem . Rabin was diagnosed with Lung Cancer and died in 2000 at the age of 72, a few days after the fifth memorial day for her late husband Yitzhak Rabin. |
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