Now that Olmert is history, we can wrap up the Prime Ministers in History series on The Israel Situation. The most recent Prime Minister is harder to look at in a historical perspective, but has no lack of controversy to add to the post.
Olmert was born in 1945 near Binyamina in what would shortly become [...]
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I am kind of in shock. Little did I know “Eric’s Political and Economic Insights” would turn into theisraelsituation.blogspot.com and later TheIsraelSituation.com. But it did.
Little did I know that in a little over one year of blogging, 50,000 unique visitors would have come to this website, but they did.
Little did I know that [...]
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Ariel “Arik” Sharon was born on Moshav Kfar Malal in 1928. Sharon has a lengthy and controversial history in Israeli politics. His political career fell short when Sharon suffered from a series of debilitating strokes leading to a persistent coma since January, 2006.
Sharon was involved in the Haganah and later the Israel Defense Forces. He [...]
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Ehud Barak was the 10th Prime Minister of Israel. Barak was born in 1942 on Kibbutz Mishmar in what would become Israel six years later. Barak is the Chair of the Labor (Avodah) Party.
Barak joined the Israeli military in 1959 and moved through the ranks while working on many high profile operations including Entebbe. In [...]
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Benjamin Netanyahu was the 9th Prime Minister of Israel and is current chair of the Likud Party. Netanyahu was born in Tel Aviv in 1949, one year after Israeli independence.
Netanyahu, often called “Bibi” by the Israeli public (and this blog), moved to the United States with his family when he was 14. He entered politics [...]
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Shimon Peres was the eight elected Prime Minster of Israel. He currently serves as President of Israel. He has held his current office since July 2007.
Peres was born in Poland (now Belarus) in 1923. Peres moved to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1934. Peres grew up in a non-religious home but was grandson of [...]
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One of the lesser known Prime Ministers of Israel is Yitzhak Shamir. Shamir took office in October, 1983 and held office for 11 months. He was again elected Prime Minister in October, 1986 and held office until July, 1992. While he held the office for longer than most other Prime Ministers, you do not hear [...]
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The sixth Prime Minister of Israel was Menachem Begin. Begin was the first Prime Minister not affiliated with the left wing Mapai/Alignment/Labor party. Begin was a member of the Likud, the current right wing party seeking a majority in the Knesset.
Begin was born in 1913 in the Russian Empire (now Belarus). His parents were passionate [...]
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Yitzhak Rabin was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel. He held office twice over his career. Rabin is known for his involvement in the Oslo Accords. He was assassinated while in office in 1995.
Rabin was the first Prime Minister to be born in Israel. He was born in Jerusalem in 1922. He grew up in [...]
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Golda Meir was the fourth elected Prime Minister of Israel. She was the third woman in history to become a Prime Minister, and the first to do so without a prior family government connection.
Meir served as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minster before becoming the party leader of Alignment, a predecessor to the modern Labor [...]
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