1. Rehavam Ze'evi was an Israeli general and politician who founded the far-right nationalist Moledet party.
23 Facts About Rehavam Ze'evi
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Rehavam Ze'evi mainly advocated for complete cleansing of the Palestinian population through population transfer.
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Rehavam Ze'evi was assassinated by Hamdi Quran of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades in retaliation for Israel's assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa, the Secretary General of the PFLP.
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Rehavam Ze'evi joined the Palmach in 1942, and served in the Israel Defense Forces after the creation of the State of Israel.
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Rehavam Ze'evi had five children, named Palmach, Sayar, Masada, Tze'ela and Arava.
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In 1948, Rehavam Ze'evi was a platoon commander in the IDF.
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Rehavam Ze'evi retired in September 1973, but rejoined the army when the Yom Kippur War broke out on 6 October 1973.
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Rehavam Ze'evi, known for his concern for Israel's captured or missing soldiers, wore a military identity disc with their names around his neck.
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In 1974, Rehavam Ze'evi became a consultant on combating terrorism in the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
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Rehavam Ze'evi resigned from this position in 1977, when Likud's Menachem Begin became prime minister.
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In 1988, Rehavam Ze'evi established the Moledet party advocating the population transfer of Arabs from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the neighboring Arab countries.
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Rehavam Ze'evi would remain in the opposition for a decade.
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In 1981, Rehavam Ze'evi was appointed director of what was then the Israel Museum in Tel Aviv and was instrumental in its name being changed to the Eretz Israel Museum.
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Rehavam Ze'evi was famous for having one of the largest collections of books about Israel and its history.
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Rehavam Ze'evi was shot in the Dan Jerusalem Hotel, at the time called the Jerusalem Hyatt Hotel, in Mount Scopus on 17 October 2001 by four Palestinian gunmen.
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Rehavam Ze'evi was buried in the military cemetery in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
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Rehavam Ze'evi was sentenced to life in prison and an additional 80 years.
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Rehavam Ze'evi later advocated the population transfer by agreement of 3.3 million residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to Arab nations.
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Rehavam Ze'evi believed this could be accomplished by making life difficult so they would relocate on their own, through use of military force during wartime, or by agreement with Arab nations.
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In July 1987, Rehavam Ze'evi presented his ideas at a forum in Tel Aviv, describing the plan as a voluntary transfer and the only way to make peace with the Arabs.
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Rehavam Ze'evi believed that Jordan historically belonged to the Tribes of Israel, specifically Gad, Reuven, and Menashe.
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Binyamin Elon, leader of the Moledet party after Rehavam Ze'evi's murder, maintains that Rehavam Ze'evi did not hate Arabs.
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In 1975, Ehud Olmert, who later became Prime Minister of Israel, accused Rehavam Ze'evi of protecting organized crime figures.