PFLP assassinates Israeli minister Rehavam Ze'evi

On 17 October 2001 PFLP gunmen assassinated Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi at a Jerusalem hotel — the first killing of an Israeli cabinet minister — in retaliation for Israel's assassination of PFLP secretary-general Abu Ali Mustafa that August. The attack hardened Israeli policy in the Second Intifada and led to the long imprisonment of PFLP leader Ahmad Sa'adat.

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Gara, T. (2026). PFLP assassinates Israeli minister Rehavam Ze'evi [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/5187e4cd-f144-43d7-a674-7e318c0e70b5

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@misc{tayyar-event-5187e4cd-f144-43d7-a674-7e318c0e70b5,
  title     = {{PFLP assassinates Israeli minister Rehavam Ze'evi}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/5187e4cd-f144-43d7-a674-7e318c0e70b5},
  urldate   = {2026-07-27},
  note      = {Event date: 2001-10-17. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-07-27},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 2001-10-17. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.