Who am I and what is my name... There was a modest president in Israel. He said "no to real estate" when he refused to leave the…
Who I am and what my name is…
He was a modest president in Israel. He said "no real estate" when he refused to leave the housing shed in the photograph and move to a magnificent representative building. He received all the leaders of the world and his Shuah in his humble hut in Jerusalem. He did the household shopping himself, in Rehavia's neighborhood consumer market.
There was a president in Israel, who also opened the hut to the masses. He is the president who decided that twice a year, on Sukkot and Independence Day, every citizen in the country would be invited to the president's house. Once, for example, he appeared at an Arab gate from the Galilee with a gift: a chicken for the president. He ordered the gift - and put it with everything else in the gift book.
One Jerusalem winter evening, the numbers tell, he returned home and saw the guard freezing cold outside. "Why are you not inside?" The President rebuked the guard. "Because someone has to save," came the reply. "Come into the house in the meantime and make yourself a cup of tea," the president ordered, "and I'll keep it until you're done."
He was president of Israel, who spent his days researching the land and its inhabitants. He walked the country, on foot, length and breadth, and explored Jews and Samaritans, Arab Bedouin and villagers. 16 books authored that president, and many articles. And many books saved in secret operations overseas, the highlight of which - the Aram Tsuba crown: the most accurate text of the Torah, written in Tiberias in the 10 century and preserved since the 14 century in Aleppo, Syria.
There was a president who shared his hut with a research institute he founded and headed: "The Institute for the Study of Israeli Communities in the East."
Today, the entire compound of the hut and its surroundings is used for research and study, and it is known, in memory of that wonderful president, "Yad Ben Zvi"
And today 56 a year ago, in 23.4.1963, he passed away: the second president of the State of Israel, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.
Thank you to my national friend for the fascinating information and writing.
Ben-Zvi
Ben-Zvi
A humble and humble person. My father had the privilege of designing the shack in Jerusalem for him, and was invited to the dedication ceremony of the shack in the presence of the president. Do I have a picture from the exciting occasion?
Many things were different a year ago
It was better not to mention his part in the Aram Tsuba Crown affair, which is controversial.
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The shack at Kibbutz Beit Keshet
As the sign posted here indicates
The hut was in Rehavia and there he spent most of his years and copied to Galilee later
The hut is not in Rehavia, but in Kibbutz Beit Keshet in the Lower Galilee (near Kaduri and Kfar Tavor).
There, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi lost his son in the War of Independence - one day before his wedding day.
So this president also had real estate senses
What's more - today a hut in Rehavia is worth more than a villa in Caesarea
True, he, too, gets a World Shepherd in a shack in Caesarea. And records every hen they bring
Bull like Bibi
Yitzhak Ben Zvi, the second president, whose wife Esther Yanai Ben Zvi was special and active in her own right