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Yitzhak Shamir

by Mackenzie Landi

Shamir was an Israeli politician and the seventh Prime Minister of Israel. Before the re-establishment of the State of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist militant group Lehi. After the establishment of the Israeli state he served in the Mossad, as a Knesset Member, a Knesset Speaker, and a Foreign Affairs Minister. Shamir was the country’s third longest-serving prime minister after David Ben-Gurion and Benjamin Netanyahu.

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