A toddler from Afghanistan is treated by Save A Child’s Heart in Holon. Photo courtesy of Save A Child’s Heart

• The non-profit organization Save a Child’s Heart is founded at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, offering free heart surgery to children from developing countries all over the world, including Gaza and the Palestinian Authorities. To date, Save a Child’s Heart has saved the lives of more than 4,500 children from 56 countries in Africa, South America, Europe, Asia, and throughout the Middle East and trained more than 150 medical personnel from these countries.

• The country was plunged into mourning on November 4, 1995, when Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated after giving a speech in Kings of Israel Square, Tel Aviv. That location’s name was changed to Rabin Square.

Israelis light candles in the wake of Rabin’s murder. Photo via Shutterstock