Spouse of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

“I highly appreciate him.”

Yasser Arafat was a man who possessed innumerable attributes of seriousness and . . . responsibility. My husband and I cherished and respected Yasser Arafat a great deal. I highly appreciate him. I was deeply moved by the warm human cordiality he expressed towards me. Arafat’s grief after Yitzhak had died was deep and honest, and so were his condolences. They were deeper and more sincere than those expressed by certain Israeli opposition leaders.
My husband and Arafat enjoyed the same leadership characteristics. Fraud was not of their nature.