(14 Nov 2005) SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot of audience
2. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in crowd
3. Former Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu arrives
4. Newly elected chairman of labour party Amir Peretz (blue shirt, open collar) standing with former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak
5. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
"I loved Yitzhak, although we didn't always see eye to eye. We went a long way together in the Israeli defence force and in the service of the state. We maintained our friendship even though we went along different and opposing political paths."
6. Sharon faces grave, bows head then walks away
7. Israeli soldier plays 'Last Post' on bugle
8. Clintons listening
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Clinton, Former US president
"We can all love Yitzhak Rabin, but we cannot forget that he fell a universal soldier in the conflict that continues to bedevil humankind. It is perhaps most vivid here on this ground that is most holy to Jews, Christians and Muslims, but I have see it in tiny villages half a world away."
10. Graves or Yitzhak and Leah Rabin
11. Clinton talking with Rabin's son, Yuval Rabin
12. Prime minister Sharon laying wreath on grave
13. Audience stands to sing Israeli national anthem
STORYLINE
The Israeli government, members of his family and dignitaries from around the world gathered in Jerusalem on Monday at the grave of former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin to mark the 10th anniversary of his assassination.
Rabin was gunned down on 4 November, 1995, by a right-wing religious fanatic as he left the stage after a peace rally in Tel Aviv, but Monday's date corresponds with the day according to the Hebrew calendar.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who opposed Rabin's policy of dialogue with the Palestinians while he was alive but is now seen by many as carrying out Rabin's vision, said: "I loved Yitzhak, although we didn't see eye to eye."
Sharon spoke at length about Rabin as a comrade in arms and reminded his audience of Rabin's stature as an important figure in the "generation of resurrection"; the men and women who helped create an independent Jewish state at the end of the second world war.
Former US President Bill Clinton said: "We can all love Yitzhak Rabin but we cannot forget that he fell a universal soldier in the conflict that continues to bedevil humankind."
Rabin's murder stunned not just Israelis but a whole world that had pinned its hopes on the former general's bold peace agenda.
Ten years later, opinions are divided over whether Israelis have internalised the lessons of his assassination and whether peacemaking would have progressed further had he lived.
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