Upcoming Lecture: The Art of Diplomacy with Stuart Eizenstat
Please join us for the 2025 Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture, with speaker Stuart Eizenstat, who will explore themes from his book, The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements That Changed the World. Learn more about this lecture here.
2023: The Only Woman in the Room: Writing the Life of Golda Meir
The 2023 Rabin Memorial Lecture was given by Pnina Lahav, Professor of Law, emerita at Boston University and author of the acclaimed book Justice in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century. This talk explored her new research on the status and history of women and her biography of Golda Meir, Israel’s fourth prime minister, which was selected for the 2022-2023 book picks of the Jewish Women’s Archive. The lecture was preceded by an introduction from Dalia Rabin, the daughter of Yitzhak Rabin and a politician in her own right.
2019: US Jews and Israel: Are we headed for a divorce?
The 2019 Rabin Memorial Lecture was delivered by Peter Beinart, a renowned contributing editor for The Atlantic and senior columnist at The Forward. A distinguished panel responded to Beinart’s lecture, moderated by Professor Lori Lefkovitz, Director of Jewish Studies and of the Humanities Center at Northeastern University. On the panel were: Rachel Fish, formerly associate director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University, Eve Spangler, Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston College, and Dov Waxman, Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Israel Studies at Northeastern University
2018: The US Role in the Middle East: Past and Future
Former Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell discussed the role of the United States in the Middle East, in the past and moving forward, at the 2018 Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture.
2016: Yitzhak Rabin in His Own Words
The 2016 Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture featured a screening of the film Rabin in His Own Words and a Question & Answer session with Israeli director, Erez Laufer.
2015: Yitzhak Rabin and the Legacy of Oslo: Prospects for Mid-East Peace, Twenty Years After the Assassination
The 2015 Yitzhak Rabin Lectur was delivered by Professor Efraim Inbar (Bar Ilan University, Political Science), and was followed by a panel discussion featuring David Ellenson (Brandeis University), Andrew Bacevich (Boston University), Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth), Jeff Jacoby (Boston Globe). The event featured a personal message from former President Bill Clinton and brief comments from Israeli Consul General to New England, Yehuda Yaakov. Clinton described described Rabin as “a man of uncommon courage and unbounded wisdom” who worked to “build lasting relationships based on mutual understanding” to create “the conditions for peace.”
The event was moderated by Tom Ashbrook (NPR/WBUR).
2014: Security and Democracy Today: An Israeli Perspective
The 2014 Yitzhak Rabin Lecturer was Israeli Admiral Amichai Ayalon, who spoke on security and democracy from an Israeli perspective.
2013: In the Eye of the Storm: Covering the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The 2013 Yitzhak Rabin Lecture was delivered by Ethan Bronner, formerly the Jerusalem Bureau Chief for The New York Times.
2005: The Missing Peace: Prospects and Possibilities in the Middle East After Arafat
The inaugural Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture took place in 2005 and featured former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dennis Ross, who explored the a unique opportunity for peace because of the death of Yasser Arafat and the rise to power of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The Yitzhak Rabin Lecture series is generously supported by Mr. Jonathan Krivine (CAS ’72).