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Died. Schneor Zalman Shazar, 84, spirited, scholarly President of Israel from 1963 to 1973; in Jerusalem. A Zionist and socialist during his youth in Russia, Shazar emigrated in 1924 to Palestine, where he edited the labor movement newspaper Davar. Poet, historian and compelling orator, he helped write Israel's declaration of independence in 1948 and served as the new state's first Education Minister before assuming -as a "man without enemies," in Premier David Ben-Gurion's phrase-the primarily ceremonial presidency. More traditional a Jew than many Zionist leaders, Shazar regularly played host to fellow Bible...
...briskly along the city's ancient streets. More than 400 aircraft, led by Air Force Commanding General Mordechai Hod in a Phantom fighter-bomber, roared overhead in precision formations; in one configuration, twelve Mirage fighters formed a Star of David. On the heavily guarded reviewing stand were President Zalman Shazar, Prime Minister Golda Meir, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Chief of Staff David Elazar...
...hanged. It is the only time in Israeli history that the death penalty has been carried out. Okamoto, after almost certainly being found guilty this week, faces the same fate, barring a commutation of his sentence by the Israeli Chief of Staff, General David Elazar, or clemency from President Zalman Shazar. Unlike Eichmann, who to the very end denied personal responsibility for the genocide of European Jews, the effusive, lantern-jawed Okamoto positively gloried in his actions. "Revolutionary warfare is a war of justice," he told the court in an excitable singsong baritone that had to be cut off frequently...
...hundreds of vehicles that wound their way through Israel's Negev Desert last week formed a kind of mobile Who's Who. Led by President Zalman Shazar and Premier Golda Meir, the pilgrims were bound for the Negev kibbutz of Sde Boker to pay homage, on his 85th birthday, to former Premier David Ben-Gurion...
...Eshkol called her a shrew. Yitzhak Raphael, a National Religious Party leader, labeled her a liar. She has been threatened with murder and having acid thrown in her eyes. She is sometimes tailed by thugs, and she gets more hate mail than an Arab sympathizer. Says former Education Minister Zalman Aranne: "She leaves scorched people and scorched earth behind...