Zalman Shazar (, born Shneur Zalman Rubrashov on
24 November 1889, died
October 5,
1974) was an
Israeli politician, author and poet, and served as the third
President of Israel from
1963 to
1973.Born to a
Hasidic family of the
Chabad-Lubavitch stream in
Mir, near
Minsk, he received a religious education as a youth. In his teenage years he became involved in the
Poale Zion Movement. Shazar
immigrated to
Mandate Palestine in 1924, and became a member of the secretariat of the
Histadrut.Shazar also served as the editor-in-chief of the Israeli newspaper
Davar from
1944 to
1949. He was elected to the
first Knesset in 1949 as a member of
Mapai, and was appointed
Minister of Education in
David Ben-Gurion's
first government. He was not a member of Ben-Gurion's
second cabinet, but retained his seat in the
1951 and
1955 elections. He also became a member of the
Jewish Agency Executive in 1952. He resigned from the
Knesset in 1956, and from 1956 to 1960 was acting chairman of the Jewish Agency's Jerusalem Executive.
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