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Rehavam (Gandhi) Zeevi (help·
info) (רחבעם זאבי-גנדי) (June 20, 1926 - October 17, 2001) was an Israeli general, politician and historian who founded the right-wing nationalist Moledet party. He was assassinated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), becoming the only Israeli politician to be assassinated during the Al-Aqsa intifada. Download high resolution version (480x686, 58 KB)Rehavam Zeevi Image taken from Hebrew Wikipedia. ...
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Rehavam Zeevi was born in 1926 in Jerusalem. He joined the Palmach in 1942, and served in the Israeli Defence Forces after the creation of Israel. From 1964 to 1968 he carried out the duties of the Chief of the Department of Staff in the Israeli General staff. For the next 5 years he served as the Commander of the Central Military District (Hebrew: אלוף פיקוד המרכז). He retired in September 1973, only to rejoin the army at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War (October 6, 1973). He then served for several more months as the Chief of the Department of Staff. He finally retired, with the rank of major-general (אלוף) in 1974. Jerusalem (Hebrew: Yerushalayim; Arabic: al-Quds; Greek ΙεÏοσόλυμα; Latin Aelia Capitolina) is an ancient Middle Eastern city on the watershed between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea at an elevation of 650-840 meters. ...
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Immediately afterwards, he became Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's consultant on combatting terrorism. The following year, 1975, he was appointed as the prime minister's adviser on matters of intelligence. Zeevi resigned from this position in 1977, when Likud's Menachem Begin became prime minister. In 1981, Zeevi was appointed the director of the Israel Museum in Tel-Aviv. In 1987, he co-edited a series of books describing various aspects of the Land of Israel, based on artifacts from the museum. (or Yitschak Rabin) (or Yitzchak Rabin) (יצחק רבין in Hebrew), (March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. ...
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In 1988, Zeevi established Moledet. His movement's platform consisted mainly in the transfer of Palestinian Arabs from the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the neighboring Arab countries. Zeevi was greatly disappointed by the Madrid Conference of 1991, and consequently withdrew from the Likud government of Yitzhak Shamir. He stayed in opposition for the following ten years. He disagreed strongly with the Avoda governments of 1992-1996 (led by Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres) and 1999-2001 (Ehud Barak), however, he looked favourably on the Netanyahu government of 1996-1999 and supported it from the outside. This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ...
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Zeevi made it quite clear that he supported forced transfer. He famously compared Palestinians to "lice" and "cancer". On different occasions, Zeevi also called for Israel to lay claim to Jordan1. It should be noted that Jordan had already signed a formal peace treaty with Israel at the time. More often than not, other Moledet party members had to follow up on these declarations with apologetic explanations that he was misunderstood and in fact Moledet supports only voluntary transfer. Population transfer is a term referring to a policy by which a state, or international authority, forces the movement of a large group of people out of a region, most frequently on the basis of their ethnicity or religion. ...
In 1999, his Moledet movement united with Herut and Tkuma into a single fraction — the National Union. Following the election of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in February 2001, Zeevi joined the governing coalition and was made the tourism minister on March 7, 2001. On October 14 Zeevi declared that his party would quit the government following the withdrawal of the Israeli Defence Forces from the Abu-Sneina neighborhood in Hebron. His resignation was to become active on October 17, 2001, at 11 a.m. Herut The National Movement or simply Herut is a right wing Israeli party. ...
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(Hebrew: ×ֲרִי×ֵל שָ×רוֹן, also known by his diminutive Arik) (born February 26, 1928) is a former Israeli politician and a retired general. ...
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Zeevi was shot in the Jerusalem Hyatt hotel on Mount Scopus on Wednesday, October 17, 2001 by four gunmen. He was rushed to the Hadassah hospital where he died several minutes before 10 a.m. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine took responsibility for the killing and stated that it was in revenge for the assassination by Israel of Abu Ali Mustafa, killed by Israel in August that year. Israel alleges that Ahmed Saadat ordered Zeevi's assassination. October 17 is the 290th (in leap years the 291st) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Obscured Legacy
Zeevi's most significant political rival was Ehud Olmert, who is now the Prime Minister, though their mutual hatred had no connection with their views on state policy. In 1975, the young Olmert called a press conference declaring that he had a list of organized crime figures in the capital that he would recommend for investigation. One was a businessman who had been under Zeevi's command during his military service named Betzalel Mizrahi. The allegations soon included a literal accusation of Zeevi's protection of Mizrahi and other criminals. Zeevi soon sued Olmert for libel, an action that scared the young legislator whose allegations had been baseless and were calculated to increase press exposure so as to heighten his prestige in the Likud. Ehud Olmert (IPA ; Hebrew: ×הוד ×ולמרט; born September 30, 1945) is the 12th and current Prime Minister of Israel. ...
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As a soldier, Zeevi's name was connected to the era in the 1960's-70's known as HaMerdafim (The Incursions/Pursuances). As Commander of the Central Military District, Zeevi was tasked with defending the new Jordan Valley settlements from PLO guerrilla actions and pacifying the newly occupied Arab-Palestinian population. This was expected despite massive buildups in the Southern Command along the Suez Canal and throughout the Sinai Peninsula, as well as in the Northern Command on the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon. Zeevi formed the elite Sayeret Kharuv in the late 1960's, an anti-terror company sized battalion. The success of the effort earned Zeevi widespread praise. At the time IDF Chief of Staff Chaim Bar-Lev had begun to focus IDF manpower and budget on armoured tank units, a factor that made Zeevi's achievement all the more extraordinary due to the massive cutbacks in infantry forces (this disastrous move by Bar-Lev, along with his placement of defensive positions too close to the Suez Canal and insufficient manning of Golan Heights defense posts aided Arab forces in October 1973 in causing the following initial successes: huge tank casualties, incursions; and in the Golan Heights capture of highly developed radar and technological equipment.)
Moledet never realized the vision Zeevi had for it. Instead of drawing masses away from the centre-right Likud, Zeevi's party was seen as just another military personality party, just as Shlomzion (Ariel Sharon), Telem (Moshe Dayan), and Yahad (Ezer Weizman) before it, and Tzomet (Rafael Eitan) and countless others after it. The factionalization of Israel's extreme right as a result of small ideological differences was not helped by Zeevi's defection from Tehiya. (Hebrew: ×ֲרִי×ֵל שָ×רוֹן, also known by his diminutive Arik) (born February 26, 1928) is a former Israeli politician and a retired general. ...
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To this day, Zeevi is controversial, and efforts to define him to young history students are the subject of fierce arguments in the educational establishment. His critics call him a bigoted military strongman who deserved to be vilified. Apologists argue that unlike most soldiers turned politicians in Israel across the spectrum, Zeevi was able to remain uncorrupted, and legal processes proved so. Complicating the argument is the fact that he was assassinated while still serving as a minister and legislator. Gandhi's Road highway in the Jordan Valley is named after him in honour of his service to the region, an honour resented by Palestinian and Bedouin residents of the Valley.
A statue of him was erected in Eilat as well.
Nickname During his youth, Ze'evi went to school in kibbutz Givat HaShlosha. One fateful night he shaved his head, wrapped a towel round his waist and entered the food hall. The similarity to Mohandas Gandhi earned him his nickname Gandhi, which stuck with him for the rest of his life. The nickname is ironic for a person considered one of the least conciliatory in Israeli-Arab relations. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) (Devanagari: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी), called Mahatma Gandhi, was the charismatic leader who brought the cause of Indias independence from British colonial rule to world attention. ...
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This History of Israel discusses the history of the modern State of Israel, from its independence proclamation in 1948 to the present. ...
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Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip are at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ...
This is an incomplete list of persons who were assassinated; that is, important people who were murdered, usually for ideological or political reasons. ...
Moledet (Hebrew מולדת, literally homeland) is a small right-wing political party in Israel. ...
The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ...
The State of Israel is a parliamentary democracy whose political system and main principles are set out in 11 Basic Laws. ...
Poster promoting a film about Jewish settlement in Palestine, 1930s: Toward a New Life (in Romanian),The Promised Land (in Hungarian), in small (down) text is written First Palestinian sound movie 1844 Discourse on the Restoration of the Jews by Mordecai Noah, page one. ...
Assassinations of Jewish leaders relating to Israel and Zionism has been a source of anguish and much internal debate between many Jewish groups and communities in Israel and the Jewish diaspora. ...
Footnotes - Source: Suzanne Goldenberg, "Sharon's Guard Dog' Bares His Teeth; Minister In New Cabinet Wants All Palestinians Expelled", The Guardian (London), March 7, 2001. [1]
Source: Avneri, Ariel.The Route. Tel Aviv, 1992. An in-depth account of the gradual corruption of Israeli governments after the 1977 electoral revolution, this includes details of the Zeevi-Olmert fued.
External links - PM Ariel Sharon's remarks on the 3rd Anniversary of the Assassination of Minister Rehavam Ze'evi z"l an address before the Knesset on October 19, 2004
- Knesset commemorates Ze'evi by Sheera Claire Frenkel and Ron Littman, published in the Jerusalem Post November 2, 2005
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