Rabin's peace plan, which would return much of the captured West Bank to Palestinians, made him evil in the eyes of Jewish militants. Far-right rabbis told their followers it would be religiously proper to murder the prime minister. Thou shalt kill. Extremist Jews weren't the only religious killers in the news in November. Credit was claimed by three Islamic groups, including one calling itself the Fighting Organization of the Partisans of God.
Fanaticism is essentially the same in all cultures.
Often, they kill their own. Mahatma Gandhi was killed by a fellow Hindu who thought Gandhi favored Muslims. The Buddhist president of Sri Lanka was killed by a Buddhist monk who thought he was selling out to the Hindu minority. Now Rabin has joined the list. The Song of Peace mustn't die with him.