Reuven Rivlin
Reuven Rivlin · Heroes of Israel
10th President of Israel (2014-21); Speaker of the Knesset; scion of a Jerusalemite family in the Land of Israel for eight generations.
9 septembre 1939, Jérusalem
Jérusalem
Reuven Rivlin is recognized among Israeli contributors to Heroes of Israel — 10th President of Israel (2014-21); Speaker of the Knesset; scion of a Jerusalemite family in the Land of Israel for eight generations.
Origins and early life
Reuven Rivlin was born on 9 September 1939 in Jerusalem, to Professor Yosef Yoel Rivlin — the Orientalist who made the first Hebrew translation of the Quran — and Rachel Rivlin, the scion, as the official presidency biography puts it, of a deeply rooted Jerusalemite family, the eighth generation in the Land of Israel on both sides.
Work and career
Family tradition traces the line to Rabbi Hillel Rivlin, a disciple of the Vilna Gaon who settled in Jerusalem in 1809 with the Old Yishuv. Rivlin served as an intelligence officer in the IDF, became a lawyer, and sat on the Jerusalem city council. A Likud member of the Knesset from 1988, he served as Minister of Communications and then twice as Speaker of the Knesset. In 2014 he was elected tenth President of Israel and served until 2021, making the office a pulpit for civic partnership between what he called the four tribes of Israeli society — secular, religious, Haredi and Arab.
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Source: Presidency of Israel ; Wikipedia ; The Jerusalem Post
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10th President of Israel (2014-21); Speaker of the Knesset; scion of a Jerusalemite family in the Land of Israel for eight generations.
Source: Presidency of Israel ; Wikipedia ; The Jerusalem Post
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