Former Israeli Presidents
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Second President of Israel 1952–1963
Yithak Ben-Zvi was born in the town of Poltava in the Ukraine, originally named Issac Shimshelevitz. A Zionist, he fled the Ukraine in 1905 because of his activities in the…Read more
Chaim Herzog
Sixth President of the state of Israel 1983-1993
Chaim Herzog was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1918. The son of the Chief Rabbi of Ireland, Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog (who later became the second Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi…Read more
Moshe Katzav
Eighth President of the State of Israel
Born in Iran in 1945, Moshe Katsav came to Israel with his parents in 1951. The eldest of eight children, he grew up in the new immigrant tent camp (and…Read more
Ephraim Katzir
Fourth President of the State of Israel 1973-1978
Professor Ephraim Katzir - eminent scientist and the fourth President of the State of Israel - was born in Kiev in 1916 as Ephraim Katchalski. Katzir hebraicized his name when…Read more
Yitzhak Navon
Fifth President of the State of Israel 1978 - 1983
Yitzhak Navon - man of the arts, senior administrator and veteran politician - was born in 1921 in Jerusalem, the son of a long line of renowned Sephardi rabbis. His…Read more
Zalman Shazar
Third President of the State of Israel 1963-1973
Zalman Shazar - labour Zionist leader, intellectual and historian - was elected President of the State of Israel in 1963. Shazar was born in White Russia in 1889 as…Read more
Ezer Weizmann
Seventh President of the State of Israel 1993 - 2000
Ezer Weizman - air force general and politician, nephew of Israel's first President Professor Chaim Weizmann, and former President of the State of Israel (1993-2000). Ezer Weizman was…Read more
Chaim Weizmann
First President of Israel 1949-1952
Chaim Weizmann was born in Motol, Russia in 1874. He received his education in biochemistry in Switzerland and Germany. Already in Geneva, he became active in the Zionist movement. In…Read more
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