Yitzhak Shamir

Prime Minister of Israel

Icchak Jaziernicki October 22, 1915 Ruzhinoy, Russian Empire

June 30, 2012(2012-06-30) (96) Tel Aviv, Israel

October 20, 1986 – July 13, 1992

Israeli politician; Prime Minister of Israel (1983-1984, 1986-1992) Yitzhak Shamir (Hebrew: יצחק שמיר ‎, listen  (help ·info ) ; born Yitzhak Yezernitsky; October 22, 1915 – June 30, 2012) was an Israeli politician and the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms, 1983–1984 and 1986–1992. Before the 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 between 1955 and 1965 and as a Knesset Member. He served as the sixth Speaker of the Knesset, and as Foreign Affairs Minister. Shamir was the country's third-longest-serving prime minister, after Benjamin Netanyahu and David Ben-Gurion.