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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi

1884 - 1963

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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (Hebrew: יִצְחָק בֶּן־צְבִי‎‎ Yitshak Ben-Tsvi; 24 November 1884 – 23 April 1963; born Izaak Shimshelevich) was a historian, ethnologist, Labor Zionist leader and the longest-serving president of Israel. He was first elected on 8 December 1952, assumed office on 16 December 1952, and continued to serve in the position until his death. As a scholar, Ben-Zvi conducted extensive research on Jewish communities in the Land of Israel, including those that existed before the foundation of the modern State of Israel. He preserved oral histories, gathered firsthand accounts and documentary evidence, and published a number of books and articles on the subject. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yitzhak Ben-Zvi is the 2,578th most popular politician (down from 1,473rd in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 55th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Yitzhak ben-Zvi was the second president of Israel, from 1952 to 1963. He was also a Zionist leader and an historian.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi ranks 2,578 out of 19,576. Before him are Tudḫaliya IV, Biljana Plavšić, Andrew III of Hungary, Henry V, Count of Luxembourg, Vasily Blokhin, and Miloš Obrenović. After him are Fumio Kishida, Childebert II, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma, Stamford Raffles, and Karl Radek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi ranks 32. Before him are Lion Feuchtwanger, Vincent Auriol, Emil Jannings, Rudolf Bultmann, Gerald Gardner, and Edward Sapir. After him are Rajendra Prasad, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Max Beckmann, Panait Istrati, Otto Rank, and Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland. Among people deceased in 1963, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi ranks 28. Before him are Józef Gosławski, Nâzım Hikmet, Carmen Amaya, Abd al-Karim Qasim, J. D. Tippit, and Herbert Spencer Gasser. After him are Jacques Hadamard, Richard Baer, Richard Barthelmess, Rajendra Prasad, Theodore von Kármán, and Kurt Zeitzler.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi ranks 92 out of 1,365. Before him are Bruno Schulz (1892), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Andrzej Żuławski (1940), Oleg Blokhin (1952), Lev Shestov (1866), and Anacharsis (-700). After him are Karl Radek (1885), Daniel of Galicia (1201), Clarice Lispector (1920), Andriy Shevchenko (1976), Reinhold Glière (1874), and Valeriy Lobanovskyi (1939).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi ranks 33. Before him are Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), Rodion Malinovsky (1898), Nikolai Podgorny (1903), Sergey Bubka (1963), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), and Andrey Vyshinsky (1883). After him are Karl Radek (1885), Daniel of Galicia (1201), Vladimir Ivashko (1932), Anastasia of Kiev (1023), Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640), and Yevgeny Primakov (1929).

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