Ben-Zvi's wooden hut was moved to Kibbutz Beit Keshet, which his son helped to found, and the interior was restored with its original furnishings
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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi was a historian, ethnologist, and Labor Zionist who was the second president of Israel from 1952 until his death in 1963. Ben-Zvi is Israel's longest-serving president.
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culture · President of Israel from 1952 to 1963 · politician · historian · writer · Jewish communities scholar · also Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Isaac Shimshelevich, Yitzchak Ben-Zvi, Ben-Zvi
Born 24 November 1884 · Died 23 April 1963 · Q128894
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1963· 1 entry
Died 1963-04-23.
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1959· 1 entry
Made an official visit to Burma, then Israel's only friend in Asia
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1958· 1 entry
President Ben-Zvi visited the Kingdoms of the Netherlands and Belgium at the invitation of their monarchs
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1954· 1 entry
Ben-Zvi helped to establish a Samaritan quarter on the outskirts of Holon
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1953· 2 entries
Awarded Bialik Prize (1953).
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Ben-Zvi was awarded the Bialik Prize for Jewish thought
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1952· 2 entries
Ben-Zvi was elected to the position, subsequently re-elected in 1957 and again in 1962, supported by 62 coalition members of the Knesset, with 42 opposition members abstaining
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Career landmark: President of Israel (1952–1963).
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1951· 2 entries
Career landmark: Knesset member (1951–1952).
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Ben-Zvi was appointed one of the acting members of the Government Naming Committee, whose duty was to decide on appropriate names for newly constructed settlements
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1949· 1 entry
Career landmark: Knesset member (1949–1951).
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1948· 1 entry
Ben-Zvi headed the Institute for the Study of Oriental Jewish Communities in the Middle East, later named the Ben-Zvi Institute (Yad Ben-Zvi) in his honor
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1935· 1 entry
Titled Book of the Samaritans (an updated edition followed in 1976)
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1926· 1 entry
Ahdut HaAvoda decided to cease all efforts at unionising Arab workers and that Arabs should be barred from joining the newly formed Histadrut
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1923· 1 entry
Blocked a strike threatened by Arab workers in Jaffa and Lydda
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1921· 1 entry
Published an essay titled The Arab Movement focusing on Palestinian Arab Nationalism in which he attempted to "resolve the apparent contradiction between the long-term goal of Zionism—the creation in Palestine of a Je
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1919· 2 entries
Was one of the founders of Ahdut Ha'Avoda which he helped reshape as a non-Marxist, Social Democratic party, which joined the bourgeois World Zionist Organization rather than the Communist International
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And became increasingly active in the Haganah
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1918· 1 entry
Ben-Zvi married Rachel Yanait a fellow Poale Zion activist
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1915· 1 entry
Despite calling on Jews to become Ottoman citizens and attempting to assemble a militia in Jerusalem to fight on the Ottoman side in the First World War, both Ben Zvi and Ben Gurion were expelled to Egypt
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1914· 1 entry
Studied at Istanbul University Faculty of Law (1912–1914).
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1912· 1 entry
Published a two part essay arguing that in certain circumstances Jewish national interests must take precedence over class solidarity and that Arab labourers should be excluded from Moshavot and the Jewish sector
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1911· 1 entry
Published an essay in Ha-Shiloaḥ on the Maccabean revolt
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1909· 1 entry
Organized the Gymnasia Rehavia high school in the Bukhari quarter of Jerusalem together with Rachel Yanait
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1908· 1 entry
When he first met the elder Abraham son of Marhiv Zeadaka Hazafrir, from whom he rented a room in Jaffa, aiming to learn Arabic
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1906· 1 entry
Studied at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (1905–1906).
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1904· 1 entry
During which he visited biblical sites and was impressed by encounters with the Samaritan community, prompting further investigations
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1884· 1 entry
Born 1884-11-24.
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