Eitan Haber, principal collaborateur politique du Premier ministre Yitzhak Rabin, est décédé mercredi après-midi à l’âge de 80 ans après avoir lutté pendant trois ans contre une grave maladie.
Haber est le fonctionnaire qui a annoncé en larmes la mort de Rabin par assassinat dans la nuit du 4 novembre 1995.
Eitan Haber était un journaliste et publiciste israélien, connu pour ses écrits sur les questions militaires et de sécurité, et pour son association de longue date avec Rabin.
LE PLUS. Haber began his journalistic career in 1958 at 18-years-old in the IDF’s weekly magazine “BaMahane”. During his military service, Haber first met Rabin who was the acting commander of the IDF’s Northern Command at the time.
After he was discharged from the military, Haber worked as a military correspondent for Ynet’s sister publication Yedioth Ahronoth for 25 years. During that time, Haber also presented and edited radio shows on Army Radio.
As a prominent military journalist, Haber covered the Six-Day War in 1967, the War of Attrition from 1967 to 1970, and the Yom Kippur war in 1973, among others. During his long career, Haber has often joined IDF soldiers out on the battlefield, where he meticulously and accurately covered events as they took place.
