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Yitzhak Shamir

Prime Minister of Israel

Died when: 96 years 259 days (1160 months)
Star Sign: Libra

 

Yitzhak Shamir

Yitzhak Shamir (Hebrew: יצחק שמיר, ; born Yitzhak Yezernitsky;October 22, 1915 – June 30, 2012) was an Israeli politician and the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms, 1983–1984 and 1986–1992.

Before the establishment of the State of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist paramilitary and terrorist organisation Lehi.

After the establishment of the Israeli state he served in the Mossad between 1955 and 1965 and as a Knesset member.He served as the sixth Speaker of the Knesset, and as foreign affairs minister.

Shamir was the country's third-longest-serving prime minister, after Benjamin Netanyahu and David Ben-Gurion.


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