On November 4, 1995, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. Within a year, architect and filmmaker Amos Gitai released the documentary The Arena of Murder (1996). The film proved to be the first step in a creative and interpretative journey which unfurled itself through a protean body of work. As Gitai asks in one of the poems he composed in response to the murder, "the question arising from all this / is how to transpose / the historical event that is Rabin's murder / in different media / in different dimensions / in different places and territories." This book traces Gitai's body of work across cinema, theater, exhibitions, commentary, fiction, and poetry, showcasing an artist enthralled by the history of his time and searching for answers to the question of how the arts might respond to the political moment.