Zalman Shazar
3rd President of Israel (1963–1973)
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.
Biography
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.
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