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Levi Eshkol

1895 - 1969

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Levi Eshkol (Hebrew: לֵוִי אֶשְׁכּוֹל [leˈvi ʔeʃˈkol] ;‎ 25 October 1895 – 26 February 1969), born Levi Yitzhak Shkolnik (Hebrew: לוי יצחק שקולניק), was the prime minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969. A founder of the Israeli Labor Party, he served in numerous senior roles, including Minister of Defense (1963–1967) and Minister of Finance (1952–1963). Eshkol was first appointed as prime minister following the resignation of David Ben-Gurion. He then led the party in the elections to the Sixth Knesset (1965) and won, remaining in office for six consecutive years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Levi Eshkol is the 1,693rd most popular politician (down from 1,094th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 42nd in 2019) and the 24th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Levi Eshkol was the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. He served from 1963 to 1969.

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Among politicians, Levi Eshkol ranks 1,693 out of 19,576. Before him are Gudea, Esarhaddon, Masoud Barzani, Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise, Pupienus, and Carlos I of Portugal. After him are Pescennius Niger, Idris of Libya, Afonso IV of Portugal, Abdul Latif Rashid, Christian III of Denmark, and Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Levi Eshkol ranks 31. Before him are Gerhard Domagk, Anastas Mikoyan, Sergei Yesenin, Henrik Dam, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, and André Frédéric Cournand. After him are J. Edgar Hoover, Cemal Gürsel, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Ludvík Svoboda, and Machine Gun Kelly. Among people deceased in 1969, Levi Eshkol ranks 29. Before him are Brian Jones, Morihei Ueshiba, Jack Kerouac, Robert Taylor, Vesto Slipher, and Dominique Pire. After him are Otto Dix, Moïse Tshombe, Arthur Friedenreich, Witold Gombrowicz, Sonja Henie, and Joseph Kasa-Vubu.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Levi Eshkol ranks 59 out of 1,365. Before him are Sergei Korolev (1906), Andrei Chikatilo (1936), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Moshe Sharett (1894), Sviatoslav Richter (1915), and Georges Charpak (1924). After him are Selman Waksman (1888), David Oistrakh (1908), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Nikolai Berdyaev (1874), Isaac Babel (1894), and Ivan Franko (1856).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Levi Eshkol ranks 24. Before him are Petro Poroshenko (1965), Grigory Zinoviev (1883), Symon Petliura (1879), Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), Andrei Zhdanov (1896), and Moshe Sharett (1894). After him are Lazar Kaganovich (1893), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), Rodion Malinovsky (1898), Nikolai Podgorny (1903), and Sergey Bubka (1963).

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