Amos Gitai Film Festival and Panel Discussions with the Director

Amos Gitai Film Festival and Panel Discussions with the Director - Jewish Silicon Valley
The Stanford University Libraries will be showing "Rabin, The Last Day."
There will be a reception and a panel discussion to follow the screening.
This screening is free and open to the public, but registration is required to attend. Register: Amos Gitai Film Festival Registration Form

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Film Synopsis
Rabin The Last Day
On the evening of Saturday, November 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Yitzhak Rabin is shot down with three bullets at the end of a huge rally for peace and against violence in the center of Tel Aviv. His killer, apprehended at the scene, turns out to be a twenty-five-year-old student and observant Jew.
This feature film shot twenty years after Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination sheds light what made this tragic deed possible: A culture of hate fueled by hysterical rhetoric, paranoia, and political intrigue. The extremist rabbis who condemned Rabin by invoking an obscure religious ruling. The prominent rightwing politicians who joined in a campaign of incitement against Rabin. The militant Israeli settlers for whom peace meant betrayal. And the security agents who saw what was coming and failed to prevent it.
Filmmaker Amos Gitai combines staged reenactments with news footage of the shooting and its aftermath to create a thought-provoking political thriller.