After
eight years at the Workers’
Children School and two years in
a regional intermediary school,
Yitzhak took his exams and was admitted
into the Kadouri Agricultural School,
a boarding school. In 1936, during
his time in this boarding school,
Palestine was rocked by widespread
strikes and riots among the Arab
population ; as a result, the school
began training children to use weapons.
When the school was later closed,
Yitzhak moved to Kibbutz Ginossar
on the Sea of Galilee. At first
he worked in agriculture and as
a guard, then as an auxiliary officer.
As World War II started, he returned
to school and graduated as a prize
student.
During
the war Yitzhak decided that it
was only right for him to leave
education and join a communal training
group at Kibbutz Ramat-Yohanan,
north of Haifa. A commander of the
Haganah, “the underground
military arm of the Jewish Agency
in Palestine,” soon approached
him. By the time that Israel was
formerly established by the United
Nations in 1945, Rabin had started
his career in the national citizen
militia, the Palmach. Although the
Jewish people had finally realized
their dream of resurrecting the
Jewish state, the road ahead would
be long and painful. Yitzhak Rabin
would be a major role in the unfolding
history of Israel.
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