What is Hafez al-Assad?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[His Excellency]] | name = Hafez al-Assad | native_name = حَافِظ ٱلْأَسَد | native_name_lang = ar | image = Hafez al-Assad official portrait.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Official Portrait, 1987 | order = 18th | office = President of Syria | term_start = 12 March 1971 | term_end = 10 June 2000 | vicepresident = [[Mahmoud al-Ayyubi]]<br>[[Rifaat al-Assad]]<br>[[Abdul Halim Khaddam]] | signature = Signature of Hafez al-Assad.svg | primeminister = ''Himself''<br>[[Abdul Rahman Khleifawi]]<br>[[Mahmoud al-Ayyubi]]<br>[[Abdul Rahman Khleifawi]]<br>[[Muhammad Ali al-Halabi]]<br>[[Abdul Rauf al-Kasm]]<br>[[Mahmoud Zuabi]]<br>[[Muhammad Mustafa Mero]] | predecessor = [[Ahmad al-Khatib]] | successor = [[Abdul Halim Khaddam]] {{small|(Acting)}} | office2 = [[Prime Minister of Syria]] | term_start2 = 21 November 1970 | term_end2 = 3 April 1971 | president2 = [[Ahmad al-Khatib]]<br>''Himself'' | predecessor2 = [[Nureddin al-Atassi]] | successor2 = [[Abdul Rahman Khleifawi]] | office3 = Regional Secretary of the [[Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Regional Command]] of the [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Syrian Regional Branch]] | deputy3 = [[Mohamad Jaber Bajbouj]]<br>[[Zuhair Masharqa]]<br>[[Sulayman Qaddah]] | term_start3 = 18 November 1970 | term_end3 = 10 June 2000 | predecessor3 = [[Nureddin al-Atassi]] | successor3 = [[Bashar al-Assad]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|10|06|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Qardaha]], [[Alawite State]], [[French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|06|10|1930|10|06|df=y}} | death_place = [[Damascus]], Syria | restingplace = [[Qardaha]], Syria | party