She was born in Tel Aviv in 1925, the daughter of Rosa and Nehemiah Rabin, and the younger sister of Yitzhak Rabin, who was three years older than her.
Israel: Rachel Rabin Yaakov died at the age of 101, the youngest and only sister of Israel's murdered Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a founder of Kibbutz Manara.
The veteran educator was one of the founders of Manara and a prominent figure in the kibbutz movement in the Upper Galilee. • For decades, she was involved in education and held a number of public positions. • At the beginning of the Iron Swords War, she was evacuated from Manara following Hezbollah fire, and has not returned to the kibbutz since. • President Herzog eulogized her: "Her life's journey was a model of educational and public action."