One of the bodyguards who was with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin when he was killed is among those interviewed by Guardian journalist Jonathan Freedland for a new BBC Radio 4 programme to mark the 25th anniversary of the statesman’s death.

Mr Rabin, famously pictured two years earlier on the White House lawn with PLO leader Yasir Arafat, died in November 1995 after a right-wing extremist fired at him during a peace rally in Tel Aviv.

The programme, which also contains new interviews with Mr Rabin’s granddaughter and the surgeon who tried to save him, “is probably the most intimate account yet of the assassination,” Mr Freedland told the JC.

“The programme asks whether this was the most successful assassination in history, given that the assassin wholly achieved his aim: namely, to stop the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in its tracks. In that goal, the evidence suggests that he succeeded. We all live with the consequences to this day.”

“The Most Successful Assassination in History” airs on BBC Radio 4 at 8pm on 2 November and 11am on 4 November.