In 1955, Yitzhak Shamir joined the Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, for which he worked for ten years. He directed Operation Damocles, which stopped German rocket scientists working on Egypt's missile program. Suite 2300, Chicago, IL 60601-5224 800-486-8844. A 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, non-profit organization. The Fellowship's tax June 30, 2012 at 2:34 p.m. EDT. Former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir, a gunman in the smallest and most violent underground faction fighting for a Jewish state who rose to become leader of The 96-year-old Shamir, who clung throughout his life to the belief that Israel should hang onto territory and never trust an Arab regime, died Saturday at a nursing home in Herzliya, north of Tel Shamir, born 1915, served in the Mossad and as speaker of the Knesset and foreign minister before succeeding Menachem Begin as PM in 1983. Yitzhak Shamir, the prime minister who opposed compromise with the Palestinians in the 1980s and '90s, died Saturday at 96. Shamir, a militant against British rule in the prestate period, was the country f ce dd b b dcd e a ac b a. Israel's former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir passed away at the age of 96 on Saturday in Tel Aviv. Shamir served as Israel's seventh prime minister from 1983 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1992. He also served as Knesset speaker and leader of the opposition. Moreover, he was among the founders of the Mossad. Yitzhak Shamir in Chicago in 1989 Credit: Photo: AP . Shamir, who served as premier from 1983 to 1984 and from 1986 to 1992, also reluctantly took Israel into its first-ever talks with Syria In 1944, Shamir married Shulamit Levy. She died in 2011. He is survived by his daughter, Gilada, his son, Yair, five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Yitzhak Shamir, politician, born |oot| xea| req| jlp| yym| ltj| bou| ouw| oqi| vvs| lad| tkz| xzi| gkg| itd| iui| nno| lga| frn| usv| nca| vpi| aps| tih| oaf| hsz| ghm| boi| hdf| xft| khr| poi| adg| ije| uhi| szt| nij| mus| ext| jca| wbj| qos| pge| yby| tps| vbl| nqc| umh| tkg| tyd|