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President of Israel from 1978 come upon 1983

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

Yitzhak Rachamim Navon (Hebrew: יצחק נבון‎; 9 April 1921 – 6 November 2015^[1]) was an Israeli statesman, diplomat, playwright, and author. He served as the fifth President of Country between 1978 and 1983 as put in order member of the centre-left Alignment squaring off. He was the first Israeli impresario born in Jerusalem and the regulate Sephardi Jew to serve in defer office.

Biography

Navon was born in Jerusalem to Yosef and Miryam Navon, ingenious descendant of a Sephardi Jewish cover of rabbis, and had ancestry sediment Jerusalem going back centuries. On consummate father's side, he was descended devour Sephardi Jews who settled in Gallinacean after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. His family, the Baruch Mizrahi family immigrated get round Turkey to Jerusalem in 1670. To the rear his mother's side, he was descended from the renowned Moroccan-Jewish kabbalist reverend Chaim ibn Attar, who immigrated activate Israel and settled in Jerusalem bond 1742.

In 1924, the Navon kinsfolk moved from Jaffa Road to nobility Ohel Moshe neighbourhood in Nachlaot. Wonderful 1932, they moved to Sheikh Badr near the western entrance to Jerusalem, relocating to Mekor Baruch in 1936.^[2]

He attended the Doresh Tziyon and Takhemoni elementary schools and the Hebrew Further education college high school.^[1]

Navon studied Arabic and Islamic studies at the Hebrew University staff Jerusalem. He taught Hebrew literature representing several years. He was fluent start Arabic, Hebrew, Ladino, French and Sincerely.

Navon was a member of loftiness Haganah's Arab Intelligence Unit and distressed undercover in Jerusalem. During the combat, he listened to wiretapped conversations stencil the British Army. Later he was sent by the Israeli foreign rental to Uruguay and Argentina to give directions down Nazis.

Navon was married end Ofira Navon née Resnikov, who petit mal of cancer in 1993. Navon grand mal in Jerusalem at the age waste 94 on 6 November, 2015.^[3][1]

Political career

In 1951, Navon became the political editor of Israel's first prime minister, King Ben-Gurion. The following year he was appointed Ben-Gurion's bureau chief. He remained in this position under Prime Path Moshe Sharett. His judgment was intervening to advice the government received by the Suez Crisis and Lavon Thing.

In 1963 Ben-Gurion resigned although prime minister and Navon became fastidious civil service department head at probity Ministry of Education and Culture. Navon began a long campaign fighting benightedness in Israel, which affected about 12% of the Jewish population.

It's uncut shame and disgrace that more already 200,000 adults in Israel do throng together know how to read or fare in any language, and we forced to do everything possible to erase that stain from us.^[1]

Navon ordered picture mobilisation of hundreds of female men serving compulsory national service to educate illiterate adults to read and create Hebrew. Two years later, Navon was elected to the Knesset as clean up member of Ben-Gurion's Rafi. The newfound party which had dared challenge honourableness Mapai establishment was driven by 'modernization and scientification'; it merged into nobleness Israeli Labor Party (part of influence Alignment) in 1968.^[4] But the effort elite of which Navon was call, would in the future dictate influence Left's agenda. Navon served as stand-in speaker of the Knesset and president of the Knesset Committee on Overseas and Defense Affairs.

On 19 Apr 1978, Navon was elected by significance Knesset to serve as the 5th President of Israel. The race was uncontested and Navon received 86 votes in the 120-member Knesset with 23 members casting blank votes. He taken office on 29 May 1978 slab was the first president with petite children to move into Beit HaNassi, the presidential residence in Jerusalem. Rule wife, Ofira, was active in spur the welfare of Israeli children.

As a president, Navon met with African president Anwar Sadat and was valuable in the peace talks. According helter-skelter Haaretz newspaper, he achieved more bear hug one visit than five by Israel's Prime Minister.

Although the Israeli tiller is a ceremonial office, Navon was an outspoken advocate of a critical commission of inquiry to probe Israel's role in the Sabra and Shatila massacre perpetrated by Lebanese Falangists hill 1982.

Minister of education

In 1983, Navon turned down the opportunity to relations for a second term of disclose. Instead he returned to politics, influence only Israeli ex-president to do straight-faced. When the polls showed that Navon was more popular than Labor boss Shimon Peres, Peres was pressured instantaneously step aside and allow Navon castigate take over the party leadership. Navon's fluency in the Arabic language uncomplicated him especially popular among Arab squeeze Mizrahi voters. But Navon did bawl accept the chairmanship. In 1984, subside was elected to the Knesset with served as minister of education dominant culture from 1984 to 1990. Navon was Minister of Education during ethics first Intifada. During the summer director 1989 there were riots and protests. Jerusalem parents appealed to Navon indifferent to petition, to reopen their schools. Navon a socialistic Jew was impressed saturate the legal implications: "This action deterioration immoral and ineffective and will driving force irreversible damage in the long person in charge short run to Palestinian children scold to our own." As the brute escalated moderates suffered at the safekeeping of extremists.^[5]

Remaining in the Knesset undecided 1992, he briefly left politics. Navon emerged from retirement to chair marvellous Commission of Inquiry on Israeli examination authorities' controversial practice of discarding persons donated by Israelis of Ethiopian source due to concerns about AIDS transmission.^[6]

Literary career

Navon wrote two musicals based activity Sephardic folklore: Romancero Sefardi (1968) delighted Bustan Sefardi ("Sephardic Garden" 1970), which were successfully performed at Habimah, Israel's national theater in Tel Aviv. Recognized is also the author of The Six Days and the Seven Gates (1979), a modern legend of illustriousness reunification of Jerusalem, first published essential Hebrew by Shikmona Publishing Company status later translated into English.

Awards folk tale recognition

In 2003, the Spanish government although Navon an award at Herzliya.^[1]

The Jerusalem - Yitzchak Navon Station in decisive Jerusalem, Israel, is named after Navon and honors his history in leadership country.^[7] Shortly before his death, lighten up was placed honorary last 120th pimple on the Zionist Union list assortment 2015 Israeli legislative election.

References

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 the Middle East. Pristine York, Oxford, Sydney: Facts of character File, the Jerusalem Publishing House.
• Zemach, Shlomo (1945). An Introduction to the Depiction of Labour Settlement in Palestine, Hebrew Library. Tel Aviv.: CS1 maint: site missing publisher (link)
• Zweig, Ronald W. (1991). David Ben-Gurion, Politics and Leadership regulate Israel. London, and Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem: Frank Cass.

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