Yitzhak Rabin
If Israeli Prime Ministers keep looking familiar, its because they are. The Jewish state has had four Prime Ministers make political comebacks in its 60-year history, leaving office only to return to their original posts years later.
In 1977, popular Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and his wife Leah were accused of violating strict currency laws that prohibited Israeli citizens from keeping money abroad. The fallout from Rabin's resignation over the scandal was so severe that the Finance Minister at the time, Yehoshua Rabinowitz, dubbed it "the biggest political crisis in the history of the state of Israel."
Rabin managed to stay on the political back burner, however, and was eventually promoted to Defense Minister in 1984, where he was championed for his relatively peaceful suppression of the first Palestinian intifadeh. His approach won him a second chance with Israeli voters, who re-elected him to the premiership in 1992, a position he held until his assassination in 1995.