   leah rabin (, nÃ©e schloÃberg; april 8, 1928 â november 12, 2000) was the widow of israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin, who was assassinated in 1995. ==biography== leah was born in kÃ¶nigsberg, east prussia, germany (now kaliningrad, russia), to an upper-middle class family of russian-born parents. immediately after adolf hitler's election as chancellor of germany in 1933, leah emigrated with her family to mandate palestine. her father had bought a piece of property near binyamina on his first trip to the area in 1927.rabin 1997, pp. 42â45. she met her future husband, yitzhak rabin, at school. they married in 1948, the year of israel's independence. yitzhak became prime minister in 1974 following golda meir's resignation, but in 1977 a us dollar bank account (illegal at that time in israel) held by leah was exposed by haaretz journalist dan margalit. as a result, her husband decided to take responsibility, resigned from office. this came to be 
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