24 November 2006
A Buenos Aires park has been inaugurated in honor of Yitzhak Rabin, the former Israeli prime minister assonated in 1995. Plaza Yitzhak Rabin is located in one of the nicest areas of the city, only two blocks away from the site of the 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy that killed 32 people. The embassy was reopened at another location and a remembrance park built on the site of the attack. The plaza, dedicated on Tuesday in a ceremony led by Buenos Aires mayor Jorge Tellerman, has a mix of native trees and palms, "so emblematic of the State of Israel," said Virginia Laboranti, a specialist in park planning who donated the design specifications to the AMIA organization. The boulevard is the widest street in the city and the park sits at the entry point, with its palms forming a welcome column.
