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Born September 17, 1918 • Belfast • Ireland
Died April 17, 1997 (aged 78) • Tel Aviv–Yafo • Israel
Title / Office president (1983-1993), Israel • parliament (1981-1983), Israel
Political Affiliation Israel Labour Party
Notable Family Members son Isaac Herzog
Subjects Of Study Israel
Role In Arab-Israeli wars

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Ehud Barak
prime minister of Israel
Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin
prime minister of Israel
Abba Eban
Abba Eban
Israeli statesman
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu
prime minister of Israel
Allon, Yigal
Yigal Allon
Israeli politician
Moshe Dayan.
Moshe Dayan
Israeli statesman
Aryeh Leon Kubovy
Israeli lawyer and diplomat
The first prime minister of Israel
Golda Meir
prime minister of Israel
Ephraim Katzir
president of Israel
Levi Eshkol
Levi Eshkol
prime minister of Israel
Pinhas Sapir
Israeli politician
Yisrael Galili
Israeli military commander
Vladimir Jabotinsky
Zionist leader
Maxwell Taylor, 1962.
Maxwell Davenport Taylor
United States army officer
Bernadotte, Folke, Greve
Greve Folke Bernadotte
Swedish diplomat
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon
prime minister of Israel
David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion
prime minister of Israel
Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli president and scientist
Gilad Shalit
Gilad Shalit
Israeli soldier
Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin
prime minister of Israel