is a former Israeli politician, the seventh Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Israel

The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and the most powerful political figure in Israel . The prime minister is the country's chief executive. The official residence of the prime minister, Beit Rosh Hamemshala is in Jerusalem...

 of Israel

Israel

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, in 1983–84 and 1986–92.
Icchak Jeziernicky (later Yitzhak Shamir) was born in Ruzhany

Ruzhany

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 , Russian Empire (now Belarus

Belarus

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). He studied at a Hebrew High School in Białystok, Poland. As a youth he joined Betar, the Revisionist Zionist

Revisionist Zionism

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 youth movement. He studied at the law faculty of Warsaw University, but cut his studies short to immigrate to what was then the British Mandate of Palestine.