President Yitzhak Navon, OB”M
The fifth president of Eretz Yisroel, Yitzhak Navon, OB”M, passed away in his Yerushalayim home on Shabbos. He was 94 years old. Yitzhak Navon was very close to the chairman of Aguch, Rabbi Shlomo Maydanchik, OB”M • Full Story
The fifth president of Eretz Yisroel, Yitzhak Navon, OB”M, passed away in his Yerushalayim home on Shabbos. He was 94 years old.
Navon leaves behind his wife, Miri Shapir, as well as a son and a daughter from his first marriage – to Ophira Navon, who lost her battle with cancer in 1993.
“With our heads bowed in deep sorrow, we report the death of my dear husband, our father, our grandfather, the fifth president of the State of Israel Yitzhak Navon,” his family stated. “Yitzhak Navon was a man of action and spirit; a novelist and a playwright, an educator and a peaceful statesman who loves his fellow man.”
Yitzhak Navon was very close to the chairman of Aguch, Rabbi Shlomo Maydanchik, OB”M. Navon also has descendants that are Lubavitch.
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