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Zalman Shazar
Zalman Shazar (Hebrew: זַלְמָן שַׁזָּ״ר; 24 November 1889 – 5 October 1974; born Shneur Zalman Rubashov) was a Belarusian-born Israeli politician, author and poet. Shazar served as the president of Israel for two terms, from 1963 to 1973.
Shazar was born Shneur Zalman Rubashov to a Hasidic family of the Chabad-Lubavitch denomination in Mir, near Minsk, in the Russian Empire (today in Grodno Region, Belarus). His mother's family descended from Joel Sirkis. In his early years, Shazar received a religious education.
He remained involved with Chabad for the rest of his life, assisting Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe in founding the village of Kfar Chabad, and at his behest, allowed the religious community in Israel to set up their own educational system. He later corresponded with the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and visited him on multiple occasions.
During the Revolution of 1905, he took part in organizing Jewish self-defense in the Western Region. In his teenage years, he became involved in the Poale Zion Movement. He worked as a translator in a Zionist publishing house. He visited Palestine in 1911 but returned to Russia to serve in the army. In 1924, after his release, he immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine, settling in Tel Aviv, and became a member of the secretariat of the Histadrut.
Shazar was married to Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, with whom he had one daughter.
He died on 5 October 1974, and was buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
Shazar served as the editor-in-chief of the Israeli newspaper Davar from 1944 to 1949. In 1947, he was a member of the Jewish Agency's delegation to the negotiations for the UN partition plan for Palestine and played a key role in drafting Israel's Declaration of Independence.
He was elected to the first Knesset in 1949 as a member of Mapai, and was appointed Minister of Education in David Ben-Gurion's first government. He was not a member of Ben-Gurion's second cabinet, but retained his seat in the 1951 and 1955 elections. He also became a member of the Jewish Agency Executive in 1952. He resigned from the Knesset in 1956, and from 1956 to 1960 was acting chairman of the Jewish Agency's Jerusalem Executive.
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Zalman Shazar
Zalman Shazar (Hebrew: זַלְמָן שַׁזָּ״ר; 24 November 1889 – 5 October 1974; born Shneur Zalman Rubashov) was a Belarusian-born Israeli politician, author and poet. Shazar served as the president of Israel for two terms, from 1963 to 1973.
Shazar was born Shneur Zalman Rubashov to a Hasidic family of the Chabad-Lubavitch denomination in Mir, near Minsk, in the Russian Empire (today in Grodno Region, Belarus). His mother's family descended from Joel Sirkis. In his early years, Shazar received a religious education.
He remained involved with Chabad for the rest of his life, assisting Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe in founding the village of Kfar Chabad, and at his behest, allowed the religious community in Israel to set up their own educational system. He later corresponded with the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and visited him on multiple occasions.
During the Revolution of 1905, he took part in organizing Jewish self-defense in the Western Region. In his teenage years, he became involved in the Poale Zion Movement. He worked as a translator in a Zionist publishing house. He visited Palestine in 1911 but returned to Russia to serve in the army. In 1924, after his release, he immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine, settling in Tel Aviv, and became a member of the secretariat of the Histadrut.
Shazar was married to Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, with whom he had one daughter.
He died on 5 October 1974, and was buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
Shazar served as the editor-in-chief of the Israeli newspaper Davar from 1944 to 1949. In 1947, he was a member of the Jewish Agency's delegation to the negotiations for the UN partition plan for Palestine and played a key role in drafting Israel's Declaration of Independence.
He was elected to the first Knesset in 1949 as a member of Mapai, and was appointed Minister of Education in David Ben-Gurion's first government. He was not a member of Ben-Gurion's second cabinet, but retained his seat in the 1951 and 1955 elections. He also became a member of the Jewish Agency Executive in 1952. He resigned from the Knesset in 1956, and from 1956 to 1960 was acting chairman of the Jewish Agency's Jerusalem Executive.
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