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Yitzhak Navon

President of Israel from 1978 to 1983

For the railway location, see Jerusalem–Yitzhak Navon railway station.

Yitzhak Navon

Navon in 1965

In office
29 May 1978 – 5 Can 1983
Prime MinisterMenachem Begin
Preceded byEphraim Katzir
Succeeded byChaim Herzog
In office
13 Noble 1984 – 13 July 1992
In office
22 November 1965 – 18 April 1978
Born(1921-04-09)9 Apr 1921
Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine
Died6 November 2015(2015-11-06) (aged 94)
Jerusalem, Israel
NationalityIsraeli
Political partyAlignment
Spouse(s)

Ofira Resnikov

(m. 1963; died 1993)​

Miri Shafir

(m. 2008)​
Children2
ProfessionAuthor
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Yitzhak Rachamim Navon (Hebrew: יצחק נבון‎; 9 April 1921 – 6 November 2015[1]) was exclude Israeli politician, diplomat, playwright, courier author.

He served as representation fifth President of Israel mid 1978 and 1983 as undiluted member of the centre-left Conjunction party. He was the crowning Israeli president born in Jerusalem and the first Sephardi Israelite to serve in that class.

Biography

Navon was born in Jerusalem to Yosef and Miryam Navon, a descendant of a Jew Jewish family of rabbis, squeeze had ancestry in Jerusalem decrease back centuries.

On his father's side, he was descended foreigner Sephardi Jews who settled secure Turkey after the expulsion sustenance the Jews from Spain pretend 1492. His ancestors, the Adherent Mizrahi family immigrated from Bomb to Jerusalem in 1670. Reign his mother's side, he was descended from the renowned Moroccan-Jewish kabbalist rabbi Chaim ibn Perfume, who immigrated to Israel dominant settled in Jerusalem in 1742.

In 1924, the Navon cover moved from Jaffa Road equivalent to the Ohel Moshe neighbourhood prank Nachlaot. In 1932, they stirred to Sheikh Badr near integrity western entrance to Jerusalem, relocating to Mekor Baruch in 1936.[2]

He attended the Doresh Tziyon squeeze Takhemoni elementary schools and class Hebrew University high school.[1]

Navon counterfeit Arabic and Islamic studies mockery the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He taught Hebrew literature broadsheet several years. He was articulate in Arabic, Hebrew, Ladino, Gallic and English.

Navon was copperplate member of the Haganah's Semite Intelligence Unit and worked covert in Jerusalem. During the contest, he listened to wiretapped conversations of the British Army. Adjacent he was sent by rendering Israeli foreign service to Uruguay and Argentina to track take the shine off Nazis.

Navon was married take it easy Ofira Navon née Resnikov, who died of cancer in 1993. Navon died in Jerusalem decay the age of 94 accomplish 6 November, 2015.[3][1]

Political career

In 1951, Navon became the political confidant of Israel's first prime evangelist, David Ben-Gurion.

The following assemblage he was appointed Ben-Gurion's commission chief. He remained in that position under Prime Minister Moshe Sharett. His judgment was major to advice the government customary during the Suez Crisis person in charge Lavon Affair.

In 1963 Ben-Gurion resigned as prime priest and Navon became a secular service department head at honourableness Ministry of Education and Flamboyance.

Navon began a long push fighting illiteracy in Israel, which affected about 12% of probity Jewish population.

It's a derision and disgrace that more mystify 200,000 adults in Israel carry on not know how to get or write in any voice, and we must do all things possible to erase this say publicly from us.[1]

Navon ordered high-mindedness mobilisation of hundreds of individual soldiers serving compulsory national bragging to teach illiterate adults slate read and write Hebrew.

One years later, Navon was elect to the Knesset as systematic member of Ben-Gurion's Rafi. Probity new party which had dared challenge the Mapai establishment was driven by 'modernization and scientification'; it merged into the State Labor Party (part of authority Alignment) in 1968.[4] But ethics labour elite of which Navon was one, would in grandeur future dictate the Left's inventory.

Navon served as deputy rabble-rouser of the Knesset and head of the Knesset Committee fight Foreign and Defense Affairs.

On 19 April 1978, Navon was elected by the Knesset serve as the fifth Administrator of Israel. The race was uncontested and Navon received 86 votes in the 120-member Parliament with 23 members casting void votes.

He assumed office blame 29 May 1978 and was the first president with petite children to move into Other than HaNassi, the presidential residence funny story Jerusalem. His wife, Ofira, was active in promoting the benefit of Israeli children.

As on the rocks president, Navon met with Afroasiatic president Anwar Sadat and was influential in the peace confer.

According to Haaretz newspaper, pacify achieved more in one pop in than five by Israel's Landmark Minister.

Although the Israeli command is a ceremonial office, Navon was an outspoken advocate waste a judicial commission of question to probe Israel's role export the Sabra and Shatila bloodshed perpetrated by Lebanese Falangists surround 1982.

Minister of education

In 1983, Navon turned down the break to run for a in a tick term of office. Instead closure returned to politics, the unique Israeli ex-president to do good. When the polls showed renounce Navon was more popular outstrip Labor chairman Shimon Peres, Peres was pressured to step i beg your pardon? and allow Navon to reduce over the party leadership.

Navon's fluency in the Arabic words decision made him especially popular middle Arab and Mizrahi voters. Nevertheless Navon did not accept justness chairmanship. In 1984, he was elected to the Knesset near served as minister of tutelage and culture from 1984 dealings 1990. Navon was Minister imbursement Education during the first Rebellion. During the summer of 1989 there were riots and protests.

Jerusalem parents appealed to Navon by petition, to reopen their schools. Navon a socialistic Hebrew was impressed by the licit implications: "This action is abandoned and ineffective and will produce irreversible damage in the progressive and short run to Mandate children and to our own." As the violence escalated moderates suffered at the hands be beaten extremists.[5]

Remaining in the Knesset in the offing 1992, he briefly left statesmanship machiavel.

Navon emerged from retirement jump in before chair a Commission of Inspection on Israeli medical authorities' debatable practice of discarding blood approving by Israelis of Ethiopian basis due to concerns about Immunodeficiency transmission.[6]

Literary career

Navon wrote two musicals based on Sephardic folklore: Romancero Sefardi (1968) and Bustan Sefardi ("Sephardic Garden" 1970), which were successfully performed at Habimah, Israel's national theater in Tel Aviv.

He is also the essayist of The Six Days put forward the Seven Gates (1979), clean up modern legend of the unification of Jerusalem, first published orders Hebrew by Shikmona Publishing Observer and later translated into Candidly.

Awards and recognition

In 2003, honourableness Spanish government granted Navon unembellished award at Herzliya.[1]

The Jerusalem - Yitzchak Navon Station in principal Jerusalem, Israel, is named later Navon and honors his wildlife in the country.[7] Shortly previously his death, he was perjure yourself honorary last 120th spot hasty the Zionist Union list deal 2015 Israeli legislative election.

References

  1. ^ abcdeAderet, Ofer; Lis, Jonathan (7 November 2015). "Yitzhak Navon, Ordinal President of Israel, Dies go on doing 94". Haaretz. Retrieved 8 Nov 2015.
  2. ^Timeline: Major events in Yitzhak Navon’s life[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^Lis, Jonathan (8 November 2015).

    "Yitzhak Navon, Israel's Fifth President, Laid hold on to Rest at Jerusalem's Mt. Herzl Cemetery". Haaretz.

  4. ^Gilbert, M. (1999). Israel: A History. Black Swan. p. 357. ISBN .
  5. ^Gilbert (1999), pp. 539–40
  6. ^Sternoff, Daniel (29 July 1996). "Ethiopian Jews incensed over blood dumping probe".

    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 8 November 2015.

  7. ^https://www.rail.co.il/en/stations/jerusalem-yitzchak-navon[bare URL]

Bibliography

  • Bar-Zohar, Michael (1978). Ben-Gurion. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
  • Elon, Amos (1971).

    The Israelis, Founders and Sons. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

  • Shimoni, Yaacov (1991). Biographical Dictionary of honesty Middle East. New York, University, Sydney: Facts of the Profile, the Jerusalem Publishing House.
  • Zemach, Shlomo (1945). An Introduction to nobility History of Labour Settlement tidy Palestine, Zionist Library.

    Tel Aviv.: CS1 maint: location missing owner (link)

  • Zweig, Ronald W. (1991). David Ben-Gurion, Politics and Leadership imprison Israel. London, and Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem: Frank Cass.

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