Jerusalem ? Family and friends lit candles and laid wreaths at Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s grave Friday to begin a week of commemorations marking the 10th anniversary of the former leader’s assassination.

The anniversary has reopened old wounds and brought about new soul-searching in a country that remains deeply divided about Rabin’s legacy and the prospects for peace with the Palestinians. In his first interview since the assassination, the man in charge of Rabin’s security the night he was killed called for a new inquiry into the killing.

Rabin, who negotiated the historic 1993 Oslo peace accords with the Palestinians, was assassinated Nov. 4, 1995, by Yigal Amir, an ultranationalist Jew who considered Rabin a traitor. Amir is serving a life sentence for the killing.

While dozens of Israelis flocked Friday to the square in Tel Aviv where Rabin was gunned down after a peace rally, mourners in Jerusalem gathered at his grave.

An Israeli woman lays a flower at the grave of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin during a memorial Friday at Mount Hertzl cemetery in Jerusalem. On the 10-year anniversary of the assassination of Rabin, the official who was responsible for the Israeli leader's security is calling for a new investigation into the killing.

“What he started will never be forgotten, and we shall continue to act in the same way until we shall achieve the most noble goal of our life, and that is peace among ourselves and our neighbors,” said Shimon Peres, Israel’s vice premier, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Rabin and Yasser Arafat for forging the interim peace accord.

The anniversary has given new life to conspiracy theories among extremists that Amir did not act alone and perhaps was assisted by Israeli security personnel.

Dror Yitzhaki, the official responsible for Rabin’s security the night of the assassination, brushed off such conspiracy theories. But in his first interview since the killing, he called for a new inquiry into intelligence and security failures leading up to the incident.