November 5, 1995

Arts and Leisure Section 2

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who led Israel to victory in 1967 and began the march toward peace a generation later, was shot dead by a lone assassin this evening as he was leaving a vast rally in Tel Aviv. Mr. Rabin, 73, was struck down by one or two bullets as he was entering his car. Police immediately seized a 27-year-old Israeli law student, Yigal Amir, who had been active in support of Israeli settlers but who told the police tonight that he had acted alone.

I NEVER had any intention of moving to Florida!" said Gloria Olsher. But there she is, to her astonishment, in the Palm Isles active-adult community in Boynton Beach, amid a bevy of new friends. A retiree in her 60's with three children "back North," she made the move a year ago, yielding to the advice of old friends who were in Florida already. She bought a large villa unit -- a single-level home in a building with four units -- for $140,000, plus a few thousand more for upgrades such as larger floor tiles and patio screening.

IN what is being called an "off-off election," Westchester County party leaders expect that a small number of voters will have a greater impact than usual when they decide on Tuesday the fate of hundreds of local candidates. At stake in the election is which party will control the 17-member County Board of Legislators and who will lead Westchester's cities and towns, most of which are electing mayors and supervisors, respectively, along with local council members.

Yigal Amir, the 27-year-old law student who was arrested for the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin tonight, was described by acquaintances as a militant critic of the Government who regularly joined protests against Mr. Rabin's policies. He told interrogators that he had carried out the killing on his own.