Reuven Rivlin

Reuven Rivlin (2014)

Reuven "Ruvi" Rivlin ( Hebrew רְאוּבֵן רִיבְלִין,  [ ʁeʔuˈven ʁivˈlin ] ; born on 9. September 1939 in Jerusalem , Mandatory Palestine ) is an Israeli lawyer and politician of the Likud . Rivlin was Minister of Communications from 2001 to 2003 and from 2003 to 2006 and again from 2009 to 2013 spokesman for the Knesset . On June 10, 2014, he was elected by the Knesset to succeed Shimon Peres as the tenth President of Israel and took office on July 24, 2014. His term of office ended on July 9, 2021, when he was succeeded by Jitzchak Herzog replaced.

Life

Rivlin studied law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and practiced as a lawyer for many years .

politics

Rivlin was a member of the Jerusalem Parish Council from 1978 to 1983. He was first elected to the Knesset in 1988. From 1988 to 1993 he was chairman of Likud. He lost his parliamentary seat in 1992, but returned to the Knesset four years later. Ariel Sharon appointed him Minister of Communications. In 2003 he became President of Parliament , an office that he initially held until 2006. During his tenure, Rivlin was accused of lacking the necessary neutrality. He made a name for himself as a sharp critic of the unilateral disengagement plan , which included Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip .

In 2007 Rivlin ran as a Likud candidate for the presidential election. However, he withdrew his application after the first ballot when it became clear that Shimon Peres of the Kadima would win a majority. In 2009 he was re-elected President of Parliament and held this office until 2013.

On September 6, 2017, Rivlin visited the former Dachau concentration camp , where he laid a wreath and spoke the kaddish together with the German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer . The next day he met with Chancellor Angela Merkel . 75 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp , he took part in the memorial service for the day of commemoration of the victims of National Socialism in the German Bundestag .

Positions

Rivlin rejects a two-state solution . He prefers a partnership of Jews and Arabs in one state. In May 2015 it was reported that he had a federation with the Palestinians in mind . He also spoke out in favor of open borders, without which there would be no peace. He describes the relationship with Germany as friendly, but in the relationship with Germany the past must never be forgotten.

In the summer of 2014, Rivlin and his predecessor Shimon Peres wrote a commentary for the daily Jediot Achronot in which he denounced the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli youths and a Palestinian boy: “We can bow to the wild and brutal terror of Muslims and Jews - or put an end to it in every way. "

Private

He is a son of the orientalist Yosef Yo'el Rivlin (October 11, 1889 - April 15, 1971). He was married to Nechama Rivlin (June 5, 1945 - June 4, 2019) and has four children. Rivlin has been a vegetarian since the 1970s and is fluent in Arabic .

Awards

• The Yonsei University in Seoul he was awarded an honorary doctorate in law on July 16 of 2019.

Web links

Commons : Reuven Rivlin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information on Rivlin on the Parliament's website
• “Made from real shot and grain”: Portrait of Reuven Rivlin on zenithonline

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reuven Rivlin is the new Israeli president. ( Memento from December 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Embassy of the State of Israel in Berlin , June 10, 2014
2. ↑ Reuven Rivlin, the friendly falcon. In: Handelsblatt , July 24, 2014.
3. ↑ Isaac Herzog elected Israel's eleventh president, with 87 votes of Knesset's 120. Retrieved June 3, 2021 (American English). 
4. ^ PR Kumaraswamy: Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict , Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4422-5169-4 , p. 392
5. ↑ df: Rivlin meets Merkel. In: israelnetz.com. September 8, 2017, accessed May 3, 2020 . 
6. ↑ press report tagesschau.de
7. ↑ Rivlin becomes the new Israeli president. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 10, 2014.
8. ↑ Israel's President speaks out against the two-state solution. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 9, 2015.
9. ↑ Made from real meal and grain. October 27, 2014, accessed January 22, 2019 . 
10. ↑ mm: Christian University awards Rivlin an honorary doctorate. In: israelnetz.com. July 17, 2019, accessed May 3, 2020 .