First Day Cover
首日封
Sobrescrito de 1.º Dia
Israel Ephraim Katzir
Date of Issue : 12 April 2011
Professor Ephraim Katzir (Katchalski), fourth President of Israel, was born on 16 May 1916 in Kiev, Ukraine.
In 1973 Ephraim Katzir was sworn in as the President of Israel, a position he held until May 1978, including the Yom Kippur War period. During his term he was responsible for the establishment of three governments: the last government of Golda Meir and the first governments of both Yitzhak Rabin and Menahem Begin.
President Katzir was the first Israeli president to be raised and educated in Israel from a young age and to serve in the IDF, as well as the first to host an incumbent U.S. president, Richard Nixon and accompany an Arab head of state, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, during his visit to Jerusalem.
After concluding his term as President of Israel, Katzir divided his time between the Weizmann Institute of Science and Tel-Aviv University, where he founded the Biotechnology Center.
Ephraim Katzir passed away on 30 May 2009 in his home at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot at the age of 93.
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