Yitzhak Shamir

יצחק שמיר

Prime Minister of Israel, Mossad Director, Lehi Commander

Born Oct 15, 1915

Ruzhany, Belarus

Passed Away Jun 30, 2012 Tel Aviv, Israel

Lifespan 96 years old

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"The sea is the same sea, and the Arabs are the same Arabs. Israel must remain strong and united."

Archival Overview

Seventh Prime Minister of Israel (1983–1984 and 1986–1992), underground commander of Lehi, and Mossad operative who led Israel during the Gulf War and the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference.

Biographical Record

Born Yitzhak Yezernitsky in the Russian Empire, he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1935. Following Avraham Stern's death in 1942, Shamir took command of the militant Zionist underground group Lehi (the Stern Gang), orchestrating daring escapes from British internment camps.

Shamir served as a senior director in the Mossad intelligence agency for a decade before entering the Knesset with Menachem Begin's Likud. As Prime Minister, he oversaw the rescue of Ethiopian Jews in Operation Solomon (1991), exercised strategic restraint under Iraqi Scud missile bombardment during the Gulf War, and participated in the historic 1991 Madrid Peace Conference.

Key Life Milestones

1991

Operation Solomon Airlift

Authorized the covert airlift that rescued 14,325 Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 36 hours.

1991

Madrid Peace Conference

Led the Israeli delegation at the historic multilateral Middle East peace conference in Spain.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial

Mount Herzl (Great Leaders of the Nation)
Jerusalem, Israel

                         GPS: 31.7744, 35.1808                    

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