What is Yitzhak Navon?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Yitzhak Navon | nationality = [[Israel]]i | image = Portrait of MP Yitzhak Navon.jpg | caption = | order = [[List of Presidents of Israel|5th]] | office = President of Israel | primeminister = [[Menachem Begin]] | term_start = 24 May 1978 | term_end = 5 May 1983 | predecessor = [[Ephraim Katzir]] | successor = [[Chaim Herzog]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|4|9|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Jerusalem]], [[Mandate Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|11|6|1921|4|9|df=y}} | death_place = Jerusalem, [[Israel]] | constituency = | party = [[Alignment (political party)|Alignment]] | spouse = [[Ofira Navon|Ofira Resnikov]]<br>(m. 1963-1993, her death)<br>Miri Shafir<br>(m. 2008-2015, his death) | children = 2 | profession = | signature = Yitzhak Navon signature.svg | footnotes = | | native_name = {{No bold|{{Script/Hebrew|יצחק נבון}}}} }} '''Yitzhak Navon''' ({{lang-he-n|יצחק נבון}}&lrm;; 9 April 1921 &ndash; 6 November 2015) was an [[Israelis|Israeli]] [[politician]], [[diplomat]] and [[author]]. He was the fifth [[President of Israel]] between 1978 and 1983. He was the first Israeli president to be born in [[Jerusalem]] and not [[Russian Empire|Russia]]. In 2005, people voted him as the 108th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website ''[[Ynet]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3083171,00.html |title=הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין – תרבות ובידור |work=Ynet| author=גיא בניוביץ' |date=20 June 1995 |accessdate=10 July 2011}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} *[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts%20About%20Israel/State/Yitzhak%20Navon Yitzhak Navon] Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs *[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsou