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Netanyahu denies saying Rabin would have lost elections if he had lived
January 6, 2016

Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday issued a total denial of the claims made by Martin Indyk in a PBS interview filmed in July 2015, that Benjamin Netanyahu said he would have beaten Yitzhak Rabin in the election had the prime minister not been assassinated in November 1995. Indyk served as US ambassador to Israel during the Clinton administration, and from 2013 to 2014 was a special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Indyk, who was ambassador in Israel at the time of Rabin’s funeral, told the Frontline program: “I remember Netanyahu saying to me: ‘Look, look at this. He’s a hero now, but if he had not been assassinated, I would have beaten him in the elections, and then he would have gone into history as a failed politician.’ READ MORE