Class of 95 is the first Eng­lish edi­tion of Mach­zor 95, Israel’s sem­i­nal lit­er­ary response to the assas­si­na­tion of Prime Min­is­ter Yitzhak Rabin. Pub­lished to mark the 30th memo­r­i­al year, this anthol­o­gy gath­ers forty poems by lead­ing Israeli voic­es who grap­pled with the shock, grief, and moral rup­ture that fol­lowed Novem­ber 4, 1995. Struc­tured around the five stages of Jew­ish mourn­ing: Anin­ut, Shiv­ah, Shloshim, Yud Bet Chodesh, and Ave­lut Yeshanah, the col­lec­tion trans­forms nation­al trau­ma into a rit­u­al jour­ney through loss, reck­on­ing, and remem­brance. Rabin’s mur­der by a fel­low Jew exposed the fragili­ty of democ­ra­cy and the cost of inter­nal divi­sion, leav­ing a wound that con­tin­ues to shape Israeli and Jew­ish iden­ti­ty. Now, three decades lat­er, after Octo­ber 7 and amid renewed glob­al uncer­tain­ty, these poems res­onate with urgent rel­e­vance. Class of 95, is more than a poet­ry anthol­o­gy; it is a cul­tur­al bridge between Israel and world Jew­ry, invit­ing read­ers into a shared con­ver­sa­tion about mem­o­ry, uni­ty, and the unfin­ished work of peace.