Tempel was born in Bayreuth , a town in the Free State of Bavaria . She studied history , political science and Jewish studies at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich , prior to receiving a scholarship in New York between 1989 and 1991 . She gained a PhD from Bundeswehr University Munich where she served as an assistant to Michael Wolffsohn . Beginning her journalistic career in 1993 , she worked in Israel as a Middle East correspondent . While there , she covered a range of events such as the Oslo I Accord , the Intifada and the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 . In 2003 , she was a recipient of the Quadriga award
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Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Sylke Tempel