Along with the students, the most notable presence in the square were the much older members of “The Guardians of Peace and Democracy” — a group that came together after the assassination and gathers at the memorial every Friday to remember him and demonstrate for peace. The Guardians sang the traditional “Land of Israel” songs of Rabin’s generation.
One of the members, Yehudit “Diti” Lahav, admitted that “it gets harder every year to hold on to any hope and continue the legacy. The more time that passes the feeling of frustration grows, and the loss of Rabin grows greater…I’m not someone who grows desperate or gives up, but today all we see is them killing us and us killing them — with no glimpse of light at the end of what feels like an incredibly long, dark tunnel.”