In November 1995, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was murdered in Tel Aviv in by an Israeli ultranationalist at the end of a rally supporting a peace agreement with the Palestinians. The events and mood of the country leading up to Rabin’s death as recollected by his widow Leah constitute Amos Gitai’s theater piece YITZHAK RABIN: CHRONICLE OF AN ASSASSINATION, which premiered in 2016 at the Festival d’Avignon, and was performed this week at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York City.

The play—presented this weekend at the Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood—was written by Gitai and Marie-José Sanselme. As in the two previous performances, Sarah Adler and Einat Weizman will play Leah, and the musicians onstage include Keren Motseri (soprano), Edna Stern (piano), and Alexey Kochetkov (violin).

YITZHAK RABIN: CHRONICLE OF AN ASSASSINATION, Sunday, July 23, at 8:30 pm.

JOHN ANSON FORD AMPHITHEATRE, 2580 Caheunga Boulevard East, Hollywood Hills.

(Across the Cahuenga Pass from the Hollywood Bowl.)

Sarah Adler and Einat Weizman in Yitzhak Rabin: Chronicle of an Assassination. Image credit: Festival d’Avignon.