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If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.

Yitzhak Shamir

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Yitzhak Shamir
Age: 96 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 30
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Former Prime Minister Of Israel
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