In 1995 , Shimon Peres took the place of Yitzhak Rabin , who had been assassinated by Yigal Amir , a Jewish extremist opposed to the Oslo peace agreement . In the 1996 elections , Israelis elected a right-wing coalition led by the Likud candidate , Benjamin Netanyahu who was followed in 1999 by the Labor Party leader Ehud Barak
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Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Second Intifada