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Yitzhak Shamir

1915 - 2012

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Yitzhak Shamir (Hebrew: יצחק שמיר, ; born Yitzhak Yezernitsky; October 22, 1915 – June 30, 2012) was an Israeli politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Israel, serving two terms (1983–1984, 1986–1992). Before the establishment of the State of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist militant group Lehi, also known as the Stern Gang. Yitzhak Shamir grew up in interwar Poland. Shamir joined Betar, the paramilitary wing of Revisionist Zionist Ze'ev Jabotinsky's Hatzohar political party. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yitzhak Shamir is the 1,421st most popular politician (down from 716th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Polish Politician.

Yitzhak Shamir was the Prime Minister of Israel from 1983 to 1984 and from 1986 to 1992. He was also the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1977 to 1984.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yitzhak Shamir ranks 1,421 out of 19,576. Before him are Ahaz, Fuad I of Egypt, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Gwangjong of Goryeo, Louis III of France, and Berenice III of Egypt. After him are Sandra Mason, Soong Ching-ling, Lazare Carnot, Ahmed Ben Bella, Mir Osman Ali Khan, and Minamoto no Yoritomo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Yitzhak Shamir ranks 17. Before him are Orson Welles, Arthur Miller, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., W. Arthur Lewis, Eli Wallach, and David Rockefeller. After him are Paul Samuelson, Clifford Shull, Billie Holiday, Hu Yaobang, Sviatoslav Richter, and John Vorster. Among people deceased in 2012, Yitzhak Shamir ranks 12. Before him are Ray Bradbury, F. Sherwood Rowland, Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., I. K. Gujral, Rita Levi-Montalcini, and Joseph Murray. After him are Ahmed Ben Bella, Theo Angelopoulos, George Tupou V, Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Elinor Ostrom.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Yitzhak Shamir ranks 73 out of 1,694. Before him are Gustav Fechner (1801), John II Casimir Vasa (1609), Friedrich Bergius (1884), Andrzej Wajda (1926), Christian Wolff (1679), and Emil von Behring (1854). After him are Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), Werner von Blomberg (1878), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), Erwin von Witzleben (1881), Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), and Erich von Falkenhayn (1861).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Yitzhak Shamir ranks 15. Before him are Casimir III the Great (1310), Donald Tusk (1957), Sigismund I the Old (1467), Władysław III of Poland (1424), Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), and John II Casimir Vasa (1609). After him are Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785), Horst Köhler (1943), Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg (1767), Anna Jagiellon (1523), and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858).

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