He joined the Palmach in 1942, and served in the Israel Defense Forces after the creation of the State of Israel. During his youth, Ze'evi went to school in Givat HaShlosha.
Palmach is also a member of Moledet and competed with Binyamin Elon for the party's leadership. ==Military career== In 1948, Rehavam Ze'evi was a platoon commander in the IDF.
In the late 1960s, Ze'evi formed the elite Sayeret Kharuv, an anti-terror battalion, at the time when IDF Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev had begun to focus manpower and budget on armoured tank units, resulting in huge cutbacks in infantry forces.
In 1964–1968, he served as Chief of the Department of Staff in the Israeli General Staff.
After a secret visit in 1965, he appointed then Colonel Yaakov (Jack) Elazari to be head of the team of secret military delegation, along with then Lieutenant Colonel Yehuda Golan and other IDF officers to train and build up Singapore Armed Forces.
He retired in September 1973, but rejoined the army when the Yom Kippur War broke out on 6 October 1973.
He retired with the rank of major-general (אלוף) in 1974. Ze'evi, known for his concern for Israel's captured or missing soldiers, wore a military identity disc with their names on his neck. It was revealed in 2004 that Ze'evi had been chosen to be responsible for the building of the armed forces of Singapore at a time when he was deputy head of the Operations Branch in IDF.
They were nicknamed "Mexicans" during their stay in Singapore. == Political career == In 1974, Ze'evi became then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's consultant on combating terrorism.
Ze'evi and Yarkoni had worked together in the IDF, and after Yarkoni's death Ze'evi loudly criticised the decision not to bury him in a military cemetery for Halakhic reasons. ==Controversy== In 1975, Ehud Olmert, later Prime Minister of Israel, accused Ze'evi of protecting organized crime figures.
Ze'evi resigned from this position in 1977, when Likud's Menachem Begin became prime minister.
Just two days before his killing he tendered his resignation from the post of tourism minister. ==Eretz Yisrael Museum== In 1981, Ze'evi was appointed director of what was then the Israel Museum in Tel Aviv and got its name changed to the Eretz Israel Museum – the change having political connotations, given the associations with Eretz Israel.
In 1987, he co-edited a series of books describing various aspects of the Land of Israel, based on artifacts from the museum.
In July 1987, Ze'evi presented his ideas at a forum in Tel Aviv, describing the plan as a voluntary transfer and the only way to make peace with the Arabs.
In 1988, Ze'evi established the Moledet (Homeland) party advocating the population transfer of Arabs from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the neighboring Arab countries. After the Madrid Conference of 1991, Ze'evi withdrew from the Likud government of Yitzhak Shamir, remaining in the opposition for a decade.
After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Ze'evi proposed transferring Palestinians to the east side of the Jordan River to serve as a buffer zone against any Iraqi attempt to attack Israel. In a radio interview in July 2001, Ze'evi stated that 180,000 Palestinians worked and lived illegally in Israel.
In 1988, Ze'evi established the Moledet (Homeland) party advocating the population transfer of Arabs from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the neighboring Arab countries. After the Madrid Conference of 1991, Ze'evi withdrew from the Likud government of Yitzhak Shamir, remaining in the opposition for a decade.
In September 1991, while serving as Minister without Portfolio, he called then US President George H.
He disagreed strongly with the Labour governments of 1992–1996 (led by Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres) and 1999–2001 (Ehud Barak), however, he looked favourably on the Netanyahu government of 1996–1999 and supported it from the outside. In 1999, Moledet united with Herut – The National Movement and Tkuma into a single faction – the National Union.
He disagreed strongly with the Labour governments of 1992–1996 (led by Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres) and 1999–2001 (Ehud Barak), however, he looked favourably on the Netanyahu government of 1996–1999 and supported it from the outside. In 1999, Moledet united with Herut – The National Movement and Tkuma into a single faction – the National Union.
Bush an "anti-Semite." In 1997, he called then US Ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk a "yehudon" (Hebrew for "Jewboy") and challenged him to a fistfight.
He disagreed strongly with the Labour governments of 1992–1996 (led by Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres) and 1999–2001 (Ehud Barak), however, he looked favourably on the Netanyahu government of 1996–1999 and supported it from the outside. In 1999, Moledet united with Herut – The National Movement and Tkuma into a single faction – the National Union.
Following the election of Ariel Sharon in February 2001, Ze'evi joined the coalition and was appointed Tourism Minister of Israel.
Ze'evi was famous for having one of the largest collection of books about Israel and its history. == Assassination == Ze'evi was shot in the Dan Jerusalem Hotel, formerly called at the time, the Jerusalem Hyatt Hotel, in Mount Scopus on 17 October 2001 by four Palestinian gunmen.
After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Ze'evi proposed transferring Palestinians to the east side of the Jordan River to serve as a buffer zone against any Iraqi attempt to attack Israel. In a radio interview in July 2001, Ze'evi stated that 180,000 Palestinians worked and lived illegally in Israel.
In April 2002 the US brokered a plan where the suspects were to be jailed in Jericho instead.
He retired with the rank of major-general (אלוף) in 1974. Ze'evi, known for his concern for Israel's captured or missing soldiers, wore a military identity disc with their names on his neck. It was revealed in 2004 that Ze'evi had been chosen to be responsible for the building of the armed forces of Singapore at a time when he was deputy head of the Operations Branch in IDF.
The publication drew calls for an end to government funding for programs that honor the late minister. == Legacy and commemoration== In July 2005, the Knesset passed a law to commemorate Ze'evi's memory.
On 14 March 2006, the American and British guards left the jail, charging that the Palestinian Authority was not adhering to the agreement reached with Israel.
Israel then launched Operation Bringing Home the Goods, in which it raided the Jericho prison and seized the five. In December 2007, Hamdi Quran confessed in an Israeli court to assassinating Ze'evi together with Basel al-Asmar after being instructed by PFLP member Majdi Rahima Rimawi.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment. In August 2007, Basel al-Asmar was convicted of murder by an Israeli court.
In May 2008, he was sentenced to 45 years in prison. In July 2008, Majdi Rahima Rimawi was convicted of murder by an Israeli court for his part in planning the assassination.
The insult was apparently because the ambassador was urging Israel to make concessions in talks with the Palestinians. A report in 2016 by a television news magazine aired allegations that Ze'evi killed unarmed Bedouins, conspired in an attempted murder of a reporter, and raped a soldier under his command.
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