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2 unusual facts about Leah Rabin


Leah Rabin

Yitzhak became Prime Minister in 1974 following Golda Meir's resignation, but in 1977 a US Dollar bank account (illegal at that time in Israel) held by Leah was exposed by Haaretz journalist Dan Margalit.

Leah supported the peace efforts of her husband in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and worked further for a solution after his assassination.



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Dollar Account affair

On March 15, 1977, Haaretz journalist Dan Margalit revealed that a joint dollar account in the names of Yitzhak and Leah Rabin, opened in a Washington, D.C., bank during Rabin's term of office as Israel ambassador (1968-73), was still open, in breach of Israeli law.