Rabin 's decision to advance peace talks with the Palestinians to the point of signing the Oslo Accords led to his assassination by Yigal Amir in 1995 . Peres decided to call early elections in 1996 to give him a mandate for advancing the peace process . However , his ploy failed ; although Labor won the most seats in the Knesset election , he lost to the election for Prime Minister to Benjamin Netanyahu following a wave of suicide bombings by Hamas . Netanyahu and Likud were thus able to form the government
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Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Israeli Labor Party