Yitzhak Shamir Quotes
I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.
Citations
Shamir, Yitzhak. Summing Up: An Autobiography. Little, Brown and Company, 1994.
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Yitzhak Shamir was an Israeli politician and the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms, 1983–84 and 1986–1992. Before the establishment of the state of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist militant group Lehi. After the establishment of the Israeli state he served in the Mossad between 1955 and 1965 and as a Knesset Member. He served as the 6th Speaker of the Knesset and as Foreign Affairs Minister. Shamir was the country's third-longest-serving prime minister after David Ben-Gurion and Benjamin Netanyahu.