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Yitzhak Navon 1921-2015

Yitzhak Navon, the fifth President of the state of Israel, was born in
Jerusalem to one of the most longstanding families in the city, dating back
to the seventeenth century. He studied Arabic literature, Islamic culture
and education. In the sixties, when he worked at the Ministry of Culture
and Education, (he) launched a campaign to teach adult new immigrants
Hebrew. He was the first president who went to visit Anwar Sadat’s Egypt.
Yitzhak Navon wasn’t just a politician, he was an educated man, who
wrote pieces talking about the Jews of Spain. Yitzhak Navon passed away
at the age of ninety four.

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