Zalman Shazar (born Shneur Zalman Rubrashov on 24 November 1889, died October 5, 1974) was an author, poet, and the third President of Israel from 1963 to 1973. Born to a Hasidic family of the Chabad-Lubavitch stream in Mir, near Minsk, he received a religious education as a youth. In his teenage years he became involved in the Poalei Zion Movement. Wikipedia
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