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	Zionism and Israel - Biographies = Biography of Yitzhak Navon, President of Israel
		Yitzhak Navon (or Itzhak Navon) (1921-) - man of the arts, senior administrator and veteran politician - was born in 1921 in Jerusalem, the son of a long line of renowned Sephardi rabbis.
		Yitzhak Navon - man of the arts, senior administrator and veteran politician - was born in 1921 in Jerusalem, the son of a long line of renowned Sephardi rabbis.
		Yitzhak Navon served during a period of heightened political, social and ethnic polarization, public controversy over the withdrawal from Sinai and the evacuation of Jewish settlements there, and the 1982 war in Lebanon.
	www.zionism-israel.com /bio/Yitzhak_Navon_biography.htm (1093 words)

	Ofira Navon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Ofira Navon (1936-1994) wife of Yitzhak Navon, the fifth President of the Israel, was born in Tel Aviv, to Batya and Eliezer Resnikov, Prisoners of Zion from Russia.
		Ofira Navon had an MA in education and psychology, with a professional certification in rehabilitation psychology from Columbia University.
		Ofira Navon openly discussed her struggle with cancer and expressed views on the treatment of the disease that sometimes aroused pointed public debate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ofira_Navon (134 words)

	President of The State of Israel
		Yitzhak Navon was born on Rosh Hodesh Nissan 5681, April 9, 1921, in Jerusalem.
		Yitzhak Navon was elected President of the State of Israel on the 12th of Nissan 5738, April 19, 1978.
		In 1984, President Navon was re-elected to the Knesset for the Labor Party and served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Culture until 1990.
	www.president.gov.il /chapters/chap_3/file_3_3_5_en.asp (1074 words)

	ImJL: Out of Spain 1492
		This spectacular journey through Spain is guided by Yitzhak Navon, fifth president of the State of Israel, and former Minister of Education.
		Yitzhak Navon, fifth President of the State of Israel and scion of Spanish Jewish exiles, strays from the beaten path and reveals some amazing discoveries in places not found on tourist maps.
		Navon glimpses behind the scenes of the year 1492, tracing the footsteps of Don Avraham Seneor, the Royal Rabbi, most famous of all Jewish apostates of 1492.
	www.imjl.com /catalog/video/outspain.htm (337 words)

	Yitzhak Navon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Yitzhak Navon was born in Jerusalem in 1921 to a Sephardi family living in Eretz Israel since the 17th century.
		Yitzhak Navon served as the fifth President of the State of Israel, from 1978-1983.
		Navon is the author of two musical plays based on Sephardic folklore: Sephardic Romancero (1968) and Bustan Sephardi ("Spanish Garden" 1970).
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/navon.html (192 words)

	Yovel - The Past, Present, and Future - Sephardic Judaism
		Former Israeli President Yitzhak Navon received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws degree at FIU in a ceremony on Sunday.
		The founders of Yovel chose to name the program after Navon, who served as president of Israel between 1978 and 1983, because of his status as the first person of Sephardic heritage to hold that office and his many contributions to the Sephardic community.
		Navon's family has lived in Israel for over 300 years and can trace its ancestry back to the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492.
	www.yovel.org /YovelCelebration.asp (541 words)

	Florida International University: Media Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Navon’s visit will also serve to formally inaugurate the President Navon Program in Sephardic Studies, part of Institute of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at FIU.
		Navon, who served as president of Israel between 1978 and 1983, was the first person of Sephardic heritage to hold that high office.
		Navon graduated from the Hebrew University with a major in Islamic studies and pedagogy.
	news.fiu.edu /releases/2002/10-02_israeli_president.htm (297 words)

	Baha'i News -- GRAPEVINE: British Ambassador, always impressive
		THOUGH officially long out of the political arena, Israel's fifth president Yitzhak Navon, who after the presidency returned to politics and became education minister, is also part of that tough breed that traces its political roots to the Ben-Gurion era.
		Navon, who is now over 80 and currently serves as chairman of the National Authority for Ladino culture, was recently awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Miami.
		Navon received a right royal welcome in Miami, where Israeli expatriates and the Jewish community at large couldn't do enough to show how pleased they were to have him in their midst.
	www.uga.edu /bahai/2002/021107-1.html (1342 words)

	Voices of Jews: 'We Dreamed of a State With a Different Character' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Yitzhak Shamir, 83, headed the Likud party and served three times as prime minister between 1983 and 1992.
		In the 1930s and 1940s, during the British Mandate in Palestine, he was a leader of militant Jewish underground movements that fought both the British and the Arabs.
		Yitzhak Navon was the Israeli president from 1978 to 1983.
	www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/israel-v.htm (2203 words)

	AEGiS-Reuters: Israel commission angers Ethiopian Jews on blood
		Ethiopians, who rioted in January when they learned from newspaper reports of the blood dumping they called "racist," were livid Sunday that not only did the discarding of their blood go unpunished but that the commission was recommending the donations still be subject to special requirements.
		Navon presented the commission's findings and proposals to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his consideration earlier Sunday.
		Navon also called on Netanyahu to address the social grievances of the Ethiopian Jews, not least of which is their demand for religious equality.
	www.aegis.com /news/re/1996/RE9607E9.html (661 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- The Cautious Visitor -- Jan. 17, 1983 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In his New Year's message to the Israeli people, he wished them "a boring year of peace." But for Yitzhak Navon, Israel's President, 1983 may be anything but boring or peaceful.
		Navon, 61, is being touted as a strong candidate who could unite the divided Labor Party to challenge Prime Minister Menachem Begin and his Likud coalition should Begin call new elections this year.
		The surge of interest in Navon in Israel inspired unusual caution in Washington as the Israeli President began a ten-day tour of the U.S. with a visit to the White House last week.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,951863,00.html (151 words)

	Yovel - The Past, Present, and Future - Sephardic Judaism
		Navon, his trajectory and achievements set the highest standards for Sephardic Jews around the world and I am confident that the university program will go very far with his name and accomplishments as seed.
		Sharing the very positive comments received from all those that were fortunate to be present at the ceremony will sum-up to one strong statement: "Yitzhak Navon, the Yovel organization and its founders has truly elevated our spirit and made us all proud of our unique Separadic heritage".
		The honorary degree event was with a lot of class and very appropriate to the president and the launching of the program for Sephardic Studies in the university.
	www.yovel.org /YovelCelebration_Comments.asp (403 words)

	The Nation, 06/05/1976 - Israel: Inside the Armed Camp by Wallfish, Asher
		...But essentially everybody in Labour, Yariv and Navon included, feels that the long-term aim of the PLO is to set up a state in place of and not alongside Israel, as is the alleged doctrine of a secular non-Zionist Arab sovereignty...
		...Hence Yitzhak Rabin has learned to delay-unless the issue at hand is so monumental that even the most quarrelsome of coalition members will agree to agree for the sake of...
		...Yitzhak Rabin is still an unseasoned Prime Minister, without adequate experience in domestic politics...
	www.archive.thenation.com /Summaries/v222i0022_06.htm (2619 words)

	Jew Watch - Jewish Genocidal Murders of Others - Palestinian
		Yitzhak Navon answered us verbally by saying that "This story is a baseless lie.
		Yitzhak Navon is supposed to appear in one of the episodes; that has not been aired yet; that deals with a plan to solve the demographic problem.
		A top official (Yitzhak Navon- Assennara) was sent to Argentina to examine the possibility of trading Jewish land in the region of Mendusa with Arab lands in the Galilee.
	jewwatch.com /jew-genocide-palestinian.html (4586 words)

	Deir Yassin - Levitza
		Yitzhak Levi was chief of intelligence in Jerusalem for the Haganah at the time of the Deir Yassin massacre.
		Two of the branch chiefs were Chaim Herzog and Yitzhak Navon, both later presidents of Israel.
		There is no doubt that what Levitza said about the things in which he was in a position to know are accurate.
	www.ariga.com /peacewatch/dy/levitza.htm (4724 words)

	Israel Leaders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Yitzhak Navon - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
		Yitzhak Rabin: The Fifth Prime Minister - The Government of Israel
		Yitzhak Shamir: The Seventh Prime Minister - The Government of Israel
	www.hum.huji.ac.il /dinur/Internetresources/modern/L.htm (245 words)

	President of Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		All Israeli presidents before Moshe Katsav have been members of, or associated with, the Labor Party and its predecessors, and all have been considered politically moderate.
		These tendencies were especially significant in the April 1978 election of Labor's Yitzhak Navon, following the inability of the governing Likud coalition to elect its candidate to the presidency.
		Israeli observers believed that, in counterbalance to Prime Minister Begin's polarizing leadership, Navon, the country's first president of Sephardi origin, provided Israel with unifying symbolic leadership at a time of great political controversy and upheaval.
	www.abitabouteverything.com /files/p/pr/president_of_israel.html (661 words)

	Press Release Sample
		A center for the research of Ladino Culture was dedicated yesterday at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
		Yitzhak Navon, the Fifth Israeli president and Director of the National Authority for Ladino Culture, and Carlos de Barcena Portoles, the Spanish Ambassador to Israel, attended the moving ceremony.
		“Thanks to their work,” Alexander says, “almost every Israeli knows of poems like The Sephardic Garden written by Yitzhak Navon, or has heard Yehoram Gaon singing Ladino ballads.
	www.bgu.ac.il /html/dover/news/1017124412.shtml (271 words)

	The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Moshe Katzav, who was sworn in on Tuesday as Israel's eighth president, garnered a bouquet of firsts.
		The affable, 55-year-old former tourism minister was not the first Sephardi head of state; Yitzhak Navon beat him to that.
		But he was the first who spent his immigrant childhood in a tent in a ma'abara (transit camp).
	www.jewishjournal.com /archive/08.04.00/mideast.08.04.00.html (898 words)

	Deir Yassin - The Evidence
		Not wishing to endanger itself, it had concluded a peace pact with Givat Shaul that was approved by Yitzhak Navon, who headed the Arab division of Haganah intelligence.
		Yitzhak Levi reports that all afternoon there were ‘negotiations’ with Haganah headquarters, and only after lengthy exchanges was the order given to retake the Qastel.
		The excuse Shaltiel gave according to Yitzhak Levi, was "Shaltiel chose to provide this permission, since he wanted to keep his authority in at least some form, because it was clear to him that the Irgun and Lehi were going to carry out their plan in any event."
	www.ariga.com /peacewatch/dy/dycg.htm (8087 words)

	Yitzhak Navon
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		Yitzhak Navon (born 1921) was an Israeli political figure.
		He served as the president of Israel between 1978 and 1983.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/yitzhak_navon (102 words)

	Yitzhak Navon Famous Quote, Quotes, Quotations, Proverbs - QuoteMountain.com
		Yitzhak Navon Famous Quote, Quotes, Quotations, Proverbs - QuoteMountain.com
		The quotes below are those from or by Yitzhak Navon.
		Multiple pages will be listed as links at the bottom of the page for each page of quotes.
	quotemountain.com /famous_quote_author/yitzhak_navon_famous_quotations (192 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Yitzhak Navon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Yitzhak Navon; all previous versions may be viewed here.
		They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Yitzhak_Navon (219 words)

	Jerusalem Post : Spanish solidarity @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Yitzhak Navon in recognition of his contribution to Israel-Spanish
		Navon carte blanche to invite as many people as he wanted - and Navon
		from the many facets of Navon's life that there was barely room to
	static.highbeam.com /j/jerusalempost/june272003/spanishsolidarity (171 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Navon are going to have a chance to meet before you depart from the United States, and I know both are looking forward to that.
		Navon an interesting and productive visit and a safe return to Israel.
		The Presidents, together with their delegations, then met in the Cabinet Room and attended a luncheon in the State Dining Room.
	www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1983/10583b.htm (366 words)

	IsraelFaxx.com newsletter: 6fax0131.txt
		It was found that those people who drank more suffered less from symptoms of cancer of the large intestine.
		Israel's prime minister has appointed a former president, Yitzhak Navon, to head a committee to investigate the problems of the country's Ethiopian immigrants.
		Ethiopian immigrants violently protested in Jerusalem Sunday after they learned that Israel's blood bank had been routinely disposing of blood donated by Ethiopian immigrants.
	www.israelfaxx.com /webarchive/1996/01/6fax0131.html (779 words)

	Detail — “Sons of Israel” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Zola interviews Yitzhak Navon, former president of Israel and former personal secretary for David Ben Gurion.
		From The Holy Land Experience in Orlando, Zola teaches on Moses, the reluctant leader who set aside his place in Egypt's royal court to lead the Hebrews to the Promised Land.
		We interview former President of Israel Yitzhak Navon about his experiences and memories of David Ben Gurion.
	store.levitt.com /det-sons_of_israel.html (516 words)

	Jerusalem Post : The woman by his side @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In the absence of a Temple, contemporary Israelites who flock to Jerusalem during Succot often bring offerings to Beit Hanassi, where the president, on one of the intermediate days of the festival, holds an open house.
		Initiated by Israel's second president, Yitzhak Ben- Zvi, the open house evolved into a tradition carried on by Ben-Zvi's successors Zalman Shazar, Ephraim Katzir, Yitzhak Navon, Chaim Herzog and Ezer Weizman.
		Chaim Herzog, the only president to serve two terms, carried out the tradition for 10 years, welcoming literally thousands of visitors from Israel and abroad.
	static.highbeam.com /j/jerusalempost/september271996/thewomanbyhisside (209 words)

	Buyout Footage - Ronald Reagan Speeches 1983 Stock Footage ; Public Domain Stock Footage Library.
		Film Title: Working Visit of President Yitzhak Navon of Israel.
		Sound Type: SD Personages: President Reagan, Yitzhak Navon
		President Reagan and President Navon walking along colonnade, having lunch in the State Dining Room.
	www.buyoutfootage.com /pages/titles/blacktype/us_president/reagan1983_01.html (2218 words)

	The Abraham Fund
		In the last six years alone, The Abraham Fund has granted more than $6 million to 450 different projects across Israel in education, social services, economic development, and the arts, thus touching the lives of hundreds of thousands of Israelis.
		Within Israel, The Abraham Fund has been recognized and encouraged by leaders such as President Ezer Weizmann, former Presidents Yitzhak Navon and Chaim Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres.
		The late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin once said, "More projects of this kind will gradually bring better understanding here and also inspire others...to see that coexistence can be achieved."
	mpdn.org /abraham.htm (244 words)

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