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font-size: 125%;"><span class="fn">עזר ויצמן<br/> Ezer Weizman</span></th> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align: center"><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ezer_Weizman_1978-2.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Ezer_Weizman_1978-2.jpg/200px-Ezer_Weizman_1978-2.jpg" width="200" height="258" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Ezer_Weizman_1978-2.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Ezer_Weizman_1978-2.jpg 2x"/></a></td> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center"><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_Israel" title="List of Presidents of Israel">7th</a> <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Israel" title="President of Israel">President of Israel</a></th> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom:none; text-align:center"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br/> 13 May 1993 – 13 July 2000</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th> <td><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin" title="Yitzhak Rabin">Yitzhak Rabin</a><br/> <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Peres" title="Shimon Peres">Shimon Peres</a><br/> <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu" title="Benjamin Netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</a><br/> <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Barak" title="Ehud Barak">Ehud Barak</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th> <td><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Herzog" title="Chaim Herzog">Chaim Herzog</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th> <td><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Katsav" title="Moshe Katsav">Moshe Katsav</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center"><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Defense_(Israel)" title="Ministry of Defense (Israel)">Minister of Defense</a></th> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom:none; text-align:center"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br/> 20 June 1977 – 28 May 1980</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th> <td><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin" title="Menachem Begin">Menachem Begin</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th> <td><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Peres" title="Shimon Peres">Shimon Peres</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th> <td><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin" title="Menachem Begin">Menachem Begin</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center">Personal details</th> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Born</th> <td><span class="nickname">Ezer Weizmann</span><br/> <span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1924-06-15</span>)</span>15 June 1924<br/> <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a>, <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_Palestine" title="Mandate Palestine" class="mw-redirect">British Mandate of Palestine</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Died</th> <td>24 April 2005<span style="display:none">(<span class="dday deathdate">2005-04-24</span>)</span> (aged 80)<br/> <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarea,_Israel" title="Caesarea, Israel" class="mw-redirect">Caesarea, Israel</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Nationality</th> <td><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israeli</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Political party</th> <td><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Labor_Party" title="Israeli Labor Party">Labour Party</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Spouse(s)</th> <td>Reuma Weizman</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Children</th> <td>2</td> </tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Religion</th> <td><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a></td> </tr> </table> <p><b><span class="unicode"><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:He-Ezer_Weitzman.ogg" title="About this sound"><img alt="About this sound" src="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png" width="11" height="11" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/17px-Loudspeaker.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/22px-Loudspeaker.svg.png 2x"/></a> <a href="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/He-Ezer_Weitzman.ogg" class="internal" title="He-Ezer Weitzman.ogg">Ezer Weizman</a><small class="metadata audiolinkinfo" style="cursor:help;"> (<a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_help" title="Wikipedia:Media help"><span style="cursor:help;">help</span></a>·<a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:He-Ezer_Weitzman.ogg" title="File:He-Ezer Weitzman.ogg"><span style="cursor:help;">info</span></a>)</small></span></b> (<a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: <span lang="he" dir="rtl" xml:lang="he">עזר ויצמן</span>, 15 June 1924 - 24 April 2005) was the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_Israel" title="List of Presidents of Israel">seventh</a> <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Israel" title="President of Israel">President of Israel</a>, first elected in 1993 and re-elected in 1998. Before the presidency, Weizman was commander of the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Air_Force" title="Israeli Air Force">Israeli Air Force</a> and <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Minister_of_Israel" title="Defense Minister of Israel" class="mw-redirect">Minister of Defense</a>.</p> <table id="toc" class="toc"> <tr> <td> <div id="toctitle"> <h2>Contents</h2> </div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Biography"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Biography</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Military_career"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Military career</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Political_career"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Political career</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Presidency"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Presidency</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Honours_and_awards"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Honours and awards</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Published_works"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Published works</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Further_reading"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Further reading</span></a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ezer_Weizman&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Biography">Biography</span></h2> <p>Weizman was born in <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a> as <b>Ezer Weizmann</b> on 15 June 1924. His father, Yechiel, was an agronomist. He grew up in <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haifa" title="Haifa">Haifa</a>, and attended the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Reali_School" title="Hebrew Reali School">Hebrew Reali School</a>.</p> <p>He married Reuma Schwartz, sister of <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Dayan" title="Ruth Dayan">Ruth Dayan</a>, wife of <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Dayan" title="Moshe Dayan">Moshe Dayan</a>, and they had two children, Shaul and Michal.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> Weizman was a nephew of Israel's first president, <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Weizmann" title="Chaim Weizmann">Chaim Weizmann</a>. He died of respiratory failure at his home in <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarea" title="Caesarea">Caesarea</a> on 24 April 2005, at the age of 80. He is not buried on <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Herzl" title="Mount Herzl">Mt. Herzl</a>, where Israeli presidents and prime ministers are usually interred, but alongside his son and daughter-in-law in <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Or_Akiva" title="Or Akiva">Or Akiva</a>.</p> <table class="infobox vcard" cellspacing="3" style="border-spacing: 3px; width:22em; width: 315px; border-spacing: 2px; font-size: 90%;"> <tr> <th colspan="2" class="" style="text-align:center; font-size:125%; font-weight:bold; background-color: #B0C4DE; font-size: 100%"><span class="fn"><b>Ezer Weizman</b></span></th> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left; padding-right: 1em">Born</th> <td class="" style="">15 June 1924<br/> <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a>, <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Israel" title="Land of Israel">Land of Israel</a></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left; padding-right: 1em">Died</th> <td class="" style="">24 April 2005</td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left; padding-right: 1em">Allegiance</th> <td class="" style=""><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a><br/> <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left; padding-right: 1em">Service/branch</th> <td class="" style=""><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a><br/> <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a><br/> <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Air_Force" title="Israeli Air Force">Israeli Air Force</a></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left; padding-right: 1em">Years of service</th> <td class="" style="">1942 – 1944 (UK)<br/> 1944 – 1969 (Israel)</td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left; padding-right: 1em">Rank</th> <td class="" style=""><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluf" title="Aluf">Aluf</a></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left; padding-right: 1em">Commands held</th> <td class="" style="">Chief of Operations on the General Staff, Commander of <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramat_David_Airbase" title="Ramat David Airbase">Ramat David</a>, Commander of the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Air_Force" title="Israeli Air Force">Israeli Air Force</a>, Deputy <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramatkal" title="Ramatkal" class="mw-redirect">Chief of the General Staff</a></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left; padding-right: 1em">Battles/wars</th> <td class="" style=""><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a><br/> <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_War_of_Independence" title="Israeli War of Independence" class="mw-redirect">Israeli War of Independence</a><br/> <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis" title="Suez Crisis">Suez Crisis</a><br/> <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Day_War" title="Six Day War" class="mw-redirect">Six Day War</a><br/> <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Attrition" title="War of Attrition">War of Attrition</a></td> </tr> <tr class=""> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left; padding-right: 1em">Other work</th> <td class="" style=""><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_State_of_Israel" title="President of the State of Israel" class="mw-redirect">President of the State of Israel</a></td> </tr> </table> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ezer_Weizman&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Military career">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Military_career">Military career</span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Avia-S-199_Ezer_Weizman.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Avia-S-199_Ezer_Weizman.jpg/220px-Avia-S-199_Ezer_Weizman.jpg" width="220" height="139" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Avia-S-199_Ezer_Weizman.jpg/330px-Avia-S-199_Ezer_Weizman.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Avia-S-199_Ezer_Weizman.jpg/440px-Avia-S-199_Ezer_Weizman.jpg 2x"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Avia-S-199_Ezer_Weizman.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.21wmf7/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt=""/></a></div> Weizman sits upon the wing root of his Avia S-199, a Czech built version of the Me 109.</div> </div> </div> <p>Weizman was a combat <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviator" title="Aviator">pilot</a>. He received his training in the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> in which he enlisted in 1942 in order to fight the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">Nazis</a>. He served as a truck driver in the Western Desert campaigns in <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> and <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>. In 1943, he joined the British <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> (RAF) and attended aviation school in <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesia" title="Rhodesia">Rhodesia</a>. He served with the RAF in India in early 1944. Weizman ended his service in the RAF as a sergeant pilot.</p> <p>Between 1944 and 1946, he was a member of the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun" title="Irgun">Irgun</a> underground in <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Palestine" title="British Mandate of Palestine" class="mw-redirect">Mandatory Palestine</a>. Between 1946 and 1947, he studied aeronautics in England.</p> <p>Weizman was a pilot for the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haganah" title="Haganah">Haganah</a> in the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab-Israeli_War" title="1948 Arab-Israeli War" class="mw-redirect">1948 Arab-Israeli War</a>. He was the commander of the Negev Air Squadron near Nir-Am. In May 1948, he learned to fly the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avia_S-199" title="Avia S-199">Avia S-199</a> at the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cesk%C3%A9_Bud%C4%9Bjovice" title="České Budějovice">České Budějovice</a> air base in <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a> and participated in Israel's first fighter mission, a ground attack on an Egyptian column advancing toward <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Halom" title="Ad Halom">Ad Halom</a> near the Arab town of <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isdud" title="Isdud" class="mw-redirect">Isdud</a> south of Tel Aviv.<sup id="cite_ref-Cohen_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cohen-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup> In a battle between Israeli and British RAF aircraft on 7 January 1949, he flew one of four Israeli <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire" title="Supermarine Spitfire">Spitfire</a> fighters that attacked 19 British fighters, which were on a rescue mission in Egypt searching for four aircraft that had been destroyed in an earlier IAF attack.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup> An RAF <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Tempest" title="Hawker Tempest">Hawker Tempest</a> was shot down by the IAF, resulting in the death of the pilot.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup> Due to a failure by ground crewmen, most of the RAF aircraft were not armed.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>After the establishment of the State of <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>, Weizman joined the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" title="Israel Defense Forces">Israel Defense Forces</a> and served as the Chief of Operations on the General Staff.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from May 2010">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In 1951 he attended the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Staff_College,_Andover" title="RAF Staff College, Andover">RAF Staff College, Andover</a> in England. Upon his return he became commander of <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramat_David_Airbase" title="Ramat David Airbase">Ramat David</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cohen_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cohen-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>He served as the commander of the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Air_Force" title="Israeli Air Force">Israeli Air Force</a> between 1958 to 1966, and later served as deputy <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramatkal" title="Ramatkal" class="mw-redirect">Chief of the General Staff</a>. He directed the early morning surprise air attacks against the Egyptian air bases, which resulted in giving the Israelis total air superiority over the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinai_Peninsula" title="Sinai Peninsula">Sinai</a> battlefields by totally destroying the Egyptian Air Force in 3 hours. A total of 400 enemy planes were destroyed by the Israeli Air Force on the 1st day of the 6 Day War.</p> <p>Although he became the IDF's Deputy Chief of Staff in 1966, he retired from military service in 1969.</p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ezer_Weizman&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Political career">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Political_career">Political career</span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:King_of_Nepal,_Shimon_Peres_and_Ezer_Weizman_1958.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/King_of_Nepal%2C_Shimon_Peres_and_Ezer_Weizman_1958.jpg/220px-King_of_Nepal%2C_Shimon_Peres_and_Ezer_Weizman_1958.jpg" width="220" height="324" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/King_of_Nepal%2C_Shimon_Peres_and_Ezer_Weizman_1958.jpg/330px-King_of_Nepal%2C_Shimon_Peres_and_Ezer_Weizman_1958.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/King_of_Nepal%2C_Shimon_Peres_and_Ezer_Weizman_1958.jpg/440px-King_of_Nepal%2C_Shimon_Peres_and_Ezer_Weizman_1958.jpg 2x"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:King_of_Nepal,_Shimon_Peres_and_Ezer_Weizman_1958.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.21wmf7/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt=""/></a></div> King <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahendra_of_Nepal" title="Mahendra of Nepal">Mahendra of Nepal</a> (left) visiting Israel accompanied by Director General of Ministry of Defense <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Peres" title="Shimon Peres">Shimon Peres</a> (middle) and Air Force commander Maj. Gen. Ezer Weizman (right), 1958</div> </div> </div> <p>Upon retiring from the military, Weizman joined the right-wing <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gahal" title="Gahal">Gahal</a> party. He served as <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Minister_of_Israel" title="Transportation Minister of Israel" class="mw-redirect">Minister of Transportation</a> in <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Eshkol" title="Levi Eshkol">Levi Eshkol</a>'s <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_unity_government" title="National unity government">national unity government</a> until Gahal left the coalition in 1970. Weizman quit Gahal in 1972, but returned in 1976, by which time it had become <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likud" title="Likud">Likud</a>. In 1977, he became <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Minister_of_Israel" title="Defense Minister of Israel" class="mw-redirect">Defense Minister</a> under <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin" title="Menachem Begin">Menachem Begin</a>. During his term, Israel launched the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_South_Lebanon_conflict" title="1978 South Lebanon conflict">Litani Operation</a> against the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization" title="Palestine Liberation Organization">PLO</a> in south <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a> and developed the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Lavi" title="IAI Lavi">IAI Lavi</a> fighter.</p> <p>Over time, Weizman's views became more dovish. After the visit to Jerusalem of Egypt's president <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Sadat" title="Anwar Sadat">Anwar Sadat</a> in 1977, Weizman developed a close friendship with him. These relations were a crucial factor in the talks that culminated in the 1978 Camp David accords, followed by a peace treaty with Egypt the following year.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>In May 1980, Weizman quit <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_government_of_Israel" title="Eighteenth government of Israel">the government</a>. He considered establishing a new party with <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Dayan" title="Moshe Dayan">Moshe Dayan</a>, which led to his ousting from Likud. For the next four years, he put politics on hold and entered the business world.</p> <p>In 1984, he established a new party, <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahad_(1984)" title="Yahad (1984)" class="mw-redirect">Yahad</a>, which won 3 seats in the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_legislative_election,_1984" title="Israeli legislative election, 1984">1984 elections</a>. The party joined a national unity government in which <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Peres" title="Shimon Peres">Shimon Peres</a> and <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Shamir" title="Yitzhak Shamir">Yitzhak Shamir</a> served as prime ministers in rotation. In October 1986, Yachad merged with the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(political_party)" title="Alignment (political party)">Alignment</a>, after <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapam" title="Mapam">Mapam</a> and <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yossi_Sarid" title="Yossi Sarid">Yossi Sarid</a> left. Between 1984 and 1990, Weizman was Minister for Arab Affairs and then Minister of Science and Technology. In 1992, the Alignment became the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Labor_Party" title="Israeli Labor Party">Israeli Labor Party</a>.</p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ezer_Weizman&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Presidency">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Presidency">Presidency</span></h2> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Barak-Begin-Sadat-Weizmann1978.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Barak-Begin-Sadat-Weizmann1978.jpg/220px-Barak-Begin-Sadat-Weizmann1978.jpg" width="220" height="159" class="thumbimage" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Barak-Begin-Sadat-Weizmann1978.jpg/330px-Barak-Begin-Sadat-Weizmann1978.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Barak-Begin-Sadat-Weizmann1978.jpg/440px-Barak-Begin-Sadat-Weizmann1978.jpg 2x"/></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Barak-Begin-Sadat-Weizmann1978.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.21wmf7/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt=""/></a></div> A meeting at <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David" title="Camp David">Camp David</a> with (l-r) <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharon_Barak" title="Aharon Barak">Aharon Barak</a>, <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin" title="Menachem Begin">Menachem Begin</a>, <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Sadat" title="Anwar Sadat">Anwar Sadat</a>, and Ezer Weizmann, 1978</div> </div> </div> <p>On 24 March 1993, the Knesset elected Weizman, by a majority of 66 to 53 (against <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Shilansky" title="Dov Shilansky">Dov Shilansky</a>, the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likud" title="Likud">Likud</a> candidate), to serve as the next President of Israel. He assumed office as President on 13 May 1993.</p> <p>In 1996, in an attempt to promote the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_process_in_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict" title="Peace process in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict">peace process</a>, Weizman invited <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat" title="Yasser Arafat">Yasser Arafat</a> for a private visit to his home in <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarea" title="Caesarea">Caesarea</a>. In 1999, he met with the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine" title="Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine">DFLP</a> leader <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayef_Hawatmeh" title="Nayef Hawatmeh">Nayef Hawatmeh</a>, declaring "I am even prepared to meet with the devil if it helps [to bring peace]."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span>[</span>7<span>]</span></a></sup> He openly supported withdrawal from the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights" title="Golan Heights">Golan Heights</a> in exchange for peace with <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>, drawing criticism from the right wing parties.</p> <p>At the end of 1999, newspapers published allegations that Weizman had accepted large sums of money from businessmen before becoming president, without reporting this to the proper authorities.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from May 2010">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Since the statute of limitations had expired Weizman was not prosecuted,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a></sup> but the controversy compelled him to resign. Weizman's resignation took effect on 13 July 2000.</p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ezer_Weizman&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Honours and awards">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Honours_and_awards">Honours and awards</span></h2> <ul> <li>1996: Collar of the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_White_Lion" title="Order of the White Lion">Order of the White Lion</a></li> <li>1999: Grand Cross with Sash of the <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Star_of_Romania" title="Order of the Star of Romania">Order of the Star of Romania</a></li> </ul> <p>In 2005, he was voted the 9th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website <i><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ynet" title="Ynet">Ynet</a></i> to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span>[</span>9<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ezer_Weizman&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Published works">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Published_works">Published works</span></h2> <ul> <li><i>On Eagles' Wings: The Personal Story of the Leading Commander of the Israeli Air Force</i> (1975)</li> <li><i>The Battle for Peace</i> (1981)</li> <li><i>Ruth, Sof</i> (2002) (Hebrew)</li> </ul> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ezer_Weizman&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h2> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123213112/http://www.nndb.com/people/531/000095246/">Ezer Weizman</a> NNDB</span></li> <li id="cite_note-Cohen-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Cohen_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cohen_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation book">Cohen, Eliezer (1993). <i>Israel's Best Defense</i>. New York: Orion Books. pp. 504. <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-517-58790-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-517-58790-4">0-517-58790-4</a>.</span></span></li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123213112/http://www.spyflight.co.uk/iafvraf.HTM">http://www.spyflight.co.uk/iafvraf.HTM</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123213112/http://www.spyflight.co.uk/iafvraf.htm">Iaf V Raf</a></span></li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation Journal">Tzahor, Zeev (January 1993). "The 1949 Air Clash between the Israeli Air Force and the RAF". <i>Journal of Contemporary History</i> <b>28</b> (1): 90.</span></span></li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123213112/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/25/MNGFECEFTB1.DTL">Ezer Weizman: 1924–2005</a> San Francisco Chronicle, 25 April 2005</span></li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123213112/http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1470135,00.html">Obituary: Ezer Weizman</a> The Guardian</span></li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123213112/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ezer_weizman.html">Ezer Weizman</a> Jewish Virtual Library</span></li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation news">גיא בניוביץ' (20 June 1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123213112/http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3083171,00.html">"הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין – תרבות ובידור"</a>. <i>Ynet</i><span class="printonly">. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123213112/http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3083171,00.html">http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3083171,00.html</a></span><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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title="Yitzhak Rabin">Rabin</a> (1984–90)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Shamir" title="Yitzhak Shamir">Shamir</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Arens" title="Moshe Arens">Arens</a> (1990–92)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin" title="Yitzhak Rabin">Rabin</a> (1992–95)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Peres" title="Shimon Peres">Peres</a> (1995–96)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Mordechai" title="Yitzhak Mordechai">Mordechai</a> (1996–99)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Arens" title="Moshe Arens">Arens</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Barak" title="Ehud Barak">Barak</a> (1999–2001)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binyamin_Ben-Eliezer" title="Binyamin Ben-Eliezer">Ben-Eliezer</a> (2001–02)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaul_Mofaz" title="Shaul Mofaz">Mofaz</a> (2002–06)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Peretz" title="Amir Peretz">Peretz</a> (2006–07)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Barak" title="Ehud Barak">Barak</a> (2007–)</li> </ul> </div> </td> <td class="navbox-image" style="width:0%;padding:0px 0px 0px 2px;" rowspan="1"> <div><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Emblem_of_Israel.svg" class="image"><img alt="Emblem of Israel.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Emblem_of_Israel.svg/40px-Emblem_of_Israel.svg.png" width="40" height="49" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Emblem_of_Israel.svg/60px-Emblem_of_Israel.svg.png 1.5x, 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title="Silvan Shalom">Shalom</a> (1998–99)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Barak" title="Ehud Barak">Barak</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matan_Vilnai" title="Matan Vilnai">Vilnai</a> (1999–2001)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Sandberg" title="Eliezer Sandberg">Sandberg</a> (2003–04)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Shalgi" title="Ilan Shalgi">Shalgi</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Brailovsky" title="Victor Brailovsky">Brailovsky</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matan_Vilnai" title="Matan Vilnai">Vilnai</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roni_Bar-On" title="Roni Bar-On">Bar-On</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophir_Pines-Paz" title="Ophir Pines-Paz">Pines-Paz</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleb_Majadele" title="Raleb Majadele">Majadele</a> (2007–09)</li> <li><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hershkowitz" title="Daniel Hershkowitz">Hershkowitz</a> (2009–)</li> </ul> </div> </td> <td class="navbox-image" style="width:0%;padding:0px 0px 0px 2px;" rowspan="1"> <div><a href="/web/20130123213112/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Emblem_of_Israel.svg" class="image"><img alt="Emblem of Israel.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Emblem_of_Israel.svg/40px-Emblem_of_Israel.svg.png" width="40" height="49" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20130123213112im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Emblem_of_Israel.svg/60px-Emblem_of_Israel.svg.png 1.5x, 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