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Documents for "Israeli History: Biographies":

• Barak, Ehud 1942-, Israeli military and political leader, prime minister of Israel (1999-). The son of East European immigrants in Palestine, he was born Ehud Brog, later adopting the Hebrew name Barak...

• Begin, Menachem 1913-92, Zionist leader and Israeli prime minister (1977-83), b. Russia. He became (1938) leader of a Zionist youth movement in Poland, where he also earned a law degree. Begin went to Palestine...

• Ben-Gurion, David 1886-1973, Israeli statesman, b. Poland as David Grün. He settled in Palestine in 1906. He was an active Zionist and during World War I helped to organize the Jewish Legion in support of the...

• Ben-Zvi, Yizhak 1884-1963, president of Israel (1952-63), b. Russia, originally named Issac Shimshelevitz. A Zionist, he fled Russia in 1905 because of his activities in the Jewish self-defense movement and...

• Dayan, Moshe 1915-81, Israeli military leader, b. Palestine. After attending Senior Agricultural School in Nahalal, Dayan fought with the Haganah (Jewish militia) throughout the 1930s and with the British Army...

• Eban, Abba 1915-2002, Israeli statesman, b. Cape Town, South Africa. He was educated at Cambridge Univ., where upon graduation he became (1938) a lecturer in Middle Eastern language and literature. During...

• Eshkol, Levi 1895-1969, Israeli statesman, third prime minister of Israel, b. Ukraine; originally named Levi Shkolnik. In World War I he served in the Jewish Legion, which supported the British forces in...

• Meir, Golda 1898-1978, Israeli political leader, b. Kiev, Russia, originally named Golda Mabovitch. Her family emigrated to the United States in 1906, settling in Milwaukee. She became a school teacher and...

• Netanyahu, Benjamin 1949-, Israeli diplomat and politician, prime minister of Israel (1996-99), b. Tel Aviv. A member of the conservative Likud party, the self-assured Netanyahu, known universally in Israel as "BiBi," attended high school in the United States, where his father was a history professor. He was an officer in an elite Israeli commando unit from 1967 to 1972 and later studied at the Massachusetts...

• Olmert, Ehud 1945-, Israeli politician. After serving in the army and working as a lawyer, he won election to the Knesset in 1973 as a Likud candidate. Under Prime Minister Shamir he served became minister without portfolio (1988-90) and minister of health (1990-92). Olmert was elected mayor of Jerusalem in 1993, resigned from the Knesset in 1998, and unsuccessfully...

• Peres, Shimon 1923-, Israeli politician, b. Vishniva, Poland (now in Belarus) as Shimon Perski. He and his parents emigrated to Palestine in 1934; his grandparents were killed in the Holocaust. Before the birth of the Israeli nation (1949) he served as manpower chief of the Haganah, the fledgling Jewish military. He subsequently was Israel's head of naval services and became...

• Rabin, Yitzhak 1922-95, Israeli general and statesman, b. Jerusalem, the first native-born prime minister of Israel (1974-77, 1992-95). His extensive military experience began in 1940 when he joined the Haganah...

• Shamir, Yitzhak 1915-, Zionist activist and Israeli politician, b. Poland. Emigrating (1935) to Palestine, he was twice arrested by the British for participating in a militant Jewish organization; in 1946 he fled...

• Sharett, Moshe 1894-1965, Israeli statesman, b. Russia, originally named Shertok. In 1906 he emigrated to Palestine where he was active in the labor movement. In 1933 he became head of the political department...

• Sharon, Ariel 1928-, Israeli general and politician, b. Kfar Malal. He gained attention for his superb military leadership in the 1948 and 1956 Arab-Israeli Wars and was made a major general months before the 1967 war. In the 1973 conflict Israeli forces under his command captured Egypt's 3d Army. That year, Sharon resigned from the army, helped establish...

• Weizman, Ezer 1924-2005, Israeli military officer and politician, president of Israel (1993-2000), b. Tel Aviv. A nephew of Chaim Weizmann , he helped found the Israeli air force, serving in it from 1948 to 1966 and rising to the rank of major general and commanding officer. As military chief of operations he was credited with...

• Weizmann, Chaim 1874-1952, scientist and Zionist leader, first president (1948-52) of Israel, b. Russia, grad. Univ. of Freiburg, 1899. He lectured in chemistry at the Univ. of Geneva (1901-3) and later taught at...