In November 1995, right-wing extremist Yigal Amir shot and killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at a rally in Tel Aviv. Award-winning journalist Dan Ephron, former Jerusalem bureau chief for Newsweek, covered both the peace-seeking leader’s murder and his hardline Orthodox assassin’s subsequent trial. Ephron has also written for The Boston Globe, The New Republic, and Esquire. His new book details the consequences that resonate in diplomatic relations even twenty years later. Esteemed Israeli author Etgar Keret calls the book “an important read for anyone who wishes to truly understand the country’s disturbing present and unsettling future.”

In conversation with Nancy Updike, producer, This American Life