Yitzhak Navon

President of Israel

9 April 1921 Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine

6 November 2015(2015-11-06) (94) Jerusalem, Israel

29 May 1978 – 5 May 1983

Israeli politician; President of Israel (1921-2015) Yitzhak Navon (left) and his brother Victor in Jerusalem, 1929 Yitzhak Rachamim Navon (Hebrew: יצחק נבון ‎‎; 9 April 1921 – 6 November 2015) was an Israeli politician, diplomat, and author. He served as the fifth President of Israel between 1978 and 1983 as a member of the centre-left Alignment party. He was the first Israeli president born in Jerusalem and the first Sephardi Jew to serve in that office.