Twenty years after that grave night of November 4, 1995, when Israel's prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was felled by an Israeli assassin's bullets, Robert Slater goes back to once again explore the man, politician and leader - a leader whose personal history paralleled that of his country, a onetime warrior that became a peacemaker. As the life of Yitzhak Rabin unfolds, the story of Israel is told: Rabin was the first native-born prime minister, the first to be born in the twentieth century, the first to be educated entirely in the country and the first to emerge from the army, bringing an...

While Dr. Porter's professional life as a paediatrician had been devoted to issues of child health and the improvement of health services delivered to children and families, he also wished to help improve medical education in general, focusing particularly on the importance of the doctor-patient relationship. Serendipity delivered him a series of life threatening health problems causing him to reflect on the patient role from the perspective of a doctor turned patient, the main message of this book. In his description of both serious and less serious issues concerning his health, Dr. Porter...