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Dalia Rabin met with Harris School students

Chairperson of the Board of the Yitzhak Rabin Center, Dalia Rabin met with Harris School students on March 6, 2007. Rabin discussed the history mission of the center, its programs, as well as hopes for the future.

Biography of Dalia Rabin

Dalia Rabin, daughter of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, is an attorney by profession, and holds a law degree from Tel Aviv University.

Elected to the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) on the Center Party ticket in 1999, she was Chairperson of the Ethics Committee; served on the Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee; the Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women; the State Control Committee; and the Committee for the Advancement of the Status of the Child.

In March 2001, Dalia Rabin was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense. She resigned that post in July 2002 and left politics altogether in order to devote her full attention to the completion of the Yitzhak Rabin Center, serving as chairperson of the board.

The Center's permanent home was dedicated November 2005, on the tenth anniversary of Rabin's assassination. Established by Knesset decree, the Yitzhak Rabin Center is a government institution with a separate not-for-profit institution which was set up to raise funds for the construction of the building and to augment existing programs. It functions as a living memorial to the life and values of Yitzhak Rabin-democracy, tolerance, social responsibility and peace-and where the lessons of the past will be applied to the future by educating Israel's youth.

Prior to her election to the Knesset, Ms. Rabin served as legal advisor to the trade unions of the Histadrut Labor Federation of Unions. She entered that position after serving fourteen years in the Public Prosecutor's central region office, where she practiced labor law. Prior to that she was in private practice.

She is mother to Yonatan (30) and Noa (27), grandmother to Adam (May 2006).