President Peres spoke of Yitzhak Rabin's legacy of peace and the importance of progress in the negotiations with the Palestinians, "Yitzhak knew that the path of peace, was the hardest of all. He never fooled himself but he believed that the Zionist interest, the national interest, the guarantee of Israel for generations to come, was based upon reaching a peace deal with our neighbors and especially with the Palestinians. A deal based upon territorial compromise but under no circumstances moral compromise. To compromise on territory but not on the Jewish and humanitarian nature of the State of Israel. The tears do not blind our clarity of the need for a two state solution – the only solution that can ensure a life of security, peace and mutual respect for both nations. That is the opinion of the majority of the people. Many of Yitzhak's opponents in the past understand that today. Almost two decades have passed and 'Yitzhak's Candle' is a candle of remembrance and a torch of hope. "

Yuval Rabin, Yitzhak Rabin's son, spoke on behalf of the family and spoke out against the re-writing of history, "I am witnessing a worrying trend in which the history of Israel is being re-written before my eyes. Yitzhak Rabin was neither naïve nor a dreamer, The dangers and threats were not unknown to him, but the command to turn over every stone, to check every lead and every option guided him. "18 years now Yitzhak Rabin is not standing before us and we are facing exactly the same fateful decisions. Giving up in advance or blaming others – that was not Yitzhak Rabin's way. It is malicious and cynical to claim that terrorism is because of Oslo. The process of escalation of terrorism is an ongoing one and no doubt many factors contribute to it but consistently one thing is clear the perpetrators are the opponents of compromise. As a nation we must decide whether we will grant a veto to every danger? We must refresh and remember the sharpest and clearest of my father's statements, "fight terrorism as if there is no peace process and work for an agreement as if there is no terror." There is no other real way for those who genuinely want to reach an agreement."

Yuval Rabin continued and said, "Then, as now, the way to create cooperation is through consensus on the way to end the Israeli-Arab conflict and the way to do that is to initiate – to present an Israeli response to the Arab peace initiatives and to promote the talks under this framework with the Palestinians but not only with them. Whoever called Rabin a traitor and a murderer will never be satisfied. No more can we say we did not hear, we did not know, we did not believe. We still have the opportunity to create an exciting future for the next generations – on the one hand to shatter conventions and to chase peace so as to change the reality in the Middle East and at the same time to change the reality of life here and make Israel a model society "All we need is to stop being afraid and to dare"​