Yitzhak Shamir
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Demographics
Gender Male
Legal Name Yitzhak Shamir [יצחק שמיר]
Birth Name Yitzhak Yezernitsky
Birthplace Ruzhinoy, Bialystok-Grodno District, Ober Ost
Birth Date October 22, 1915
Ethnicity Jewish
Overview Ashkenazi
Nationality Israeli
Career Politician, militant
Color Season Soft Summer
Notes and Motifs
Conductor politician
Pi ideological extremist
Seventh prime minister of Israel, serving two terms (1983–1984, 1986–1992)
Before the establishment of the State of Israel, he was a leader of the Zionist militant group Lehi, also known as the Stern Gang
Joined the Revisionist Zionist Irgun paramilitary group led by Menachem Begin
During World War II the Irgun split over the question of whether to support the Axis Powers against the British Empire
Avraham Stern and him sought an alliance with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany and formed the breakaway militia group Lehi, but were unable to persuade the Axis powers to lend it support
Led Lehi after Stern's assassination in 1942
In 1944 he married Lehi member Shulamit Levy
During the 1948 Palestine war, Lehi and the Irgun committed the Deir Yassin massacre of over 100 Palestinians
Served in Mossad between 1955 and 1965
Directed Operation Damocles and resigned from Mossad after Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion ordered an end to the program
In 1969 he joined Menachem Begin's Herut Party
Served as Speaker of the Knesset after Likud became the first right-wing Israeli government after winning the 1977 Israeli legislative election against Prime Minister Shimon Peres' Alignment
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