Shazar, Zalman

Mr. Dan Patir served as advisor to several Israeli leaders. He accompanied President Shazar on a historic visit to the Rebbe in 1966.

In an interview, the author of the new volume The Prime Ministers discusses his impressions on the Rebbe’s approach to the issues that faced the Land of Israel.

It was 1966, and Zalman Shazar was on his first visit to the United States as the President of Israel. All the ceremonial events and official visits would be at the Manhattan hotel where the President was staying. Except for one...

Jerry Dantzic photographs former Israeli president Zalman Shazar in an audience with the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of righteous memory and later joining a Chassidic gathering with the Rebbe.

Israeli diplomat Yehuda Avner speaks at the concluding banquet of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries in New York, addressing a series of encounters he had with the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory.

Yitzhak Rabin was a straight-as-a-die agnostic, and shy to a fault. So, when on a spring day in 1972 he was kept waiting at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for his appointment with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, he became fidgety...

President Zalman Shazar of Israel participates at the Rebbe’s Farbrengen honoring 12 Tammuz.

A visit to the Rebbe by the President of Israel, Zalman Shazar.

Israeli President Zalman Shazar visits the Rebbe on Taanis Esther, and stays for the Megillah reading in 770.

Introduction: The Midnight Visit of a President and a Poet In July 1966, Chaim Grade—the Yiddish writer who so vividly memorialized the world of Jewish life and learning in pre-Holocaust Lita—received a phone call. Zalman Shazar, the journalist and labor-...