Yitzchak Nawon

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Yitzchak Nawon ( Hebrew יצחק נבון, mostly translit. as Navon ; * April 9, 1921 in Jerusalem ; † November 6, 2015 ibid) was an Israeli politician and from 1978 to 1983 the fifth President of Israel .

Yitzchak Nawon (2010)

Life

Jitzchak Nawon was born in 1921 to a Sephardic family. His paternal ancestors were Spanish Jews who settled in Turkey after the Jews were expelled from Spain . His father immigrated to Palestine in 1870 . The ancestors on the mother's side were descended from the Moroccan Kabbalist Chajim ben Mose Attar . His mother, who was born in Morocco , came to Jerusalem in 1884.

Nawon studied Hebrew Literature , Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Subsequently, Nawon worked as a teacher. From 1946 to 1948 he served in the Arab section of the Hagana's intelligence service . After Israel was founded in 1948, he worked as a diplomat at the embassies in Uruguay and Argentina.

In 1950 he returned to Israel. He worked as secretary for Moshe Sharet , the first Israeli foreign minister. In 1951 he joined the Mapai (Israeli Workers' Party) and in the same year became political secretary to Prime Minister David Ben Gurion . From 1952 to 1953 and from 1955 to 1963 he was Ben Gurion's head of cabinet . He also held this position when Moshe Scharett was Prime Minister from 1953 to 1955. With Ben Gurion he converted from the Mapai to the Rafi . In 1963 he became director of the Ministry of Education and led a successful literacy campaign . In 1965 Nawon was elected to the Knesset for the Rafi and became its deputy spokesman in the same year.

1978 Nawon was his country's fifth president elected . In November 1980 he was the first Israeli President to be a guest in Egypt for five days . Although the office of president is mainly representative, he advocated the appointment of a judicial commission of inquiry after the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre by Lebanese Falangists . At the end of his term of office, he decided not to run for president again, but to return to politics. From 1984 to 1988 he was Deputy Prime Minister and from 1984 to 1990 Minister of Education and Culture.

In addition to his political work, and increasingly since 1992, when he left the Knesset, Nawon dedicated himself to preserving the Ladino language and promoting Sephardic culture. He wrote the musical play Romancero Sephardi (premiered in 1968) and the play Bustan Sepharadi ("Spanish Garden", 1969), which was awarded the renowned Kinor David Prize in 1979. In Israel, Bustan Sepharadi has been performed more than 2000 times. He also wrote legendary stories in the Sephardic tradition and short stories.

Yitzchak Nawon had two children with his first wife, Ofira. His wife died in 1993. In 2008 he married Miri Schafir.

Fonts

In German translation:

  • The six days and the seven gates . Seewald, Stuttgart-Degerloch 1981, ISBN 3-512-00608-6 .

Web links

Commons : Jitzchak Nawon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yitzhak Navon, Israel's fifth president, dies at the age of 94 The Jerusalem Post, November 7, 2015. (English)
  2. ↑ Israel's ex-President Navon died at the age of 94 Die Welt, November 7, 2015, accessed on November 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Navon, Yitzhak . In: Norman A. Stillman (ed.): Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic world . Brill, Leiden 2010 ISBN 978-90-04-17678-2 , Vol. 3; also readable online (fee required)
  4. ↑ eng.asp? Mk individual id t = 687 Biography on the Knesseth website
  5. ↑ Hans-Christian Rößler: Itzhak Navon died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 9, 2015, p. 4.
  6. ^ Israel mourns the loss of former President Navon , Embassy of the State of Israel in Berlin, November 8, 2015.
  7. ^ Obituary tachles , November 9, 2015.
  8. ↑ Ofer Aderet, Jonathan Lis: Yitzhak Navon, Fifth President of Israel, Dies at 94. Haaretz , Nov. 7, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Nawon, Yitzchak
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Navon, Yitzhak
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli politician and president
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2015
Place of death Jerusalem