{"id":"yitzhak-ben-zvi","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yitzhak-ben-zvi","language":"en","name":"Yitzhak Ben-Zvi","name_en":"Yitzhak Ben-Zvi","name_ne":null,"description":"2nd President of Israel (1952–1963) - (1884–1963)","headline":"2nd President of Israel (1952–1963) - (1884–1963)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (Hebrew: יִצְחָק בֶּן־צְבִי‎‎ Yitshak Ben-Tsvi; 24 November 1884 – 23 April 1963; born Izaak Shimshelevich) was a historian, ethnologist, and Labor Zionist who was the second president of Israel from 1952 until his death in 1963. Ben-Zvi is Israel's longest-serving president.","summary_more":["As a scholar, Ben-Zvi conducted extensive research on Jewish communities in the Land of Israel, including those that existed before the foundation of the modern State of Israel. He preserved oral histories, gathered firsthand accounts and documentary evidence, and published a number of books and articles on the subject. He shed light on their traditions, language, folklore, and religious practices through his work, which frequently focused on the Mizrahi and Sephardic Jewish as well as the Samaritan communities. The Ben-Zvi Institute he founded and directed continues to be an important institution for research on Jewish communities in the Middle East."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"24 November 1884","date":"1884-11-24"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128894#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Poltava","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156747"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128894#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"23 April 1963","date":"1963-04-23"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128894#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Jerusalem","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1218"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128894#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Israel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q801"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128894#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"},{"text":"historian","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201788"},{"text":"writer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36180"},{"text":"Jewish communities scholar","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108823085"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128894#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Mapai","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1453052"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128894#P102"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Istanbul University Faculty of Law","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6099542","start":"1912","end":"1914-07"},{"text":"Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84151","start":"1905-08","end":"1906-06"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128894#P69"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q175372"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128894#P26"}},{"key":"website","label":"Official website","values":[{"text":"ybz.org.il","url":"http://www.ybz.org.il"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128894#P856"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"President of Israel (16 December 1952 – 23 April 1963)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327948","start":"1952-12-16","end":"1963-04-23"},{"text":"Knesset member (20 August 1951 – 8 December 1952)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4047513","start":"1951-08-20","end":"1952-12-08"},{"text":"Knesset member (14 February 1949 – 20 August 1951)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4047513","start":"1949-02-14","end":"1951-08-20"},{"text":"president","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1255921"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128894#P39"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Bialik Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q794514","date":"1953"},{"text":"honorary citizen of Jerusalem","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100715846"},{"text":"Member of the Order of the British Empire","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12201526"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128894#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Ben-Zvi","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128894","http://www.ybz.org.il"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Yitzhak Ben-Zvi born?","a":"Yitzhak Ben-Zvi was born on 24 November 1884 in Poltava."},{"q":"What positions has Yitzhak Ben-Zvi held?","a":"Positions held by Yitzhak Ben-Zvi include: President of Israel (1952–1963); Knesset member (1951–1952); Knesset member (1949–1951); president."},{"q":"Where did Yitzhak Ben-Zvi study?","a":"Yitzhak Ben-Zvi was educated at Istanbul University Faculty of Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv."}],"related":[{"name":"Shimon Peres","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/shimon-peres"},{"name":"Isaac Herzog","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/isaac-herzog"},{"name":"Reuven Rivlin","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/reuven-rivlin"},{"name":"Chaim Weizmann","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/chaim-weizmann"},{"name":"Moshe Katsav","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/moshe-katsav"},{"name":"Chaim Herzog","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/chaim-herzog"},{"name":"Benjamin Netanyahu","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/benjamin-netanyahu"},{"name":"Golda Meir","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/golda-meir"},{"name":"David Ben-Gurion","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/david-ben-gurion"},{"name":"Ariel Sharon","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ariel-sharon"},{"name":"Yitzhak Rabin","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yitzhak-rabin"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/yitzhak-ben-zvi-baaa6e04a2.jpg","width":500,"height":748,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Fritz Cohen","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yitzhak_Ben-Zvi.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Yitzhak Ben-Zvi","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Ben-Zvi","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q128894","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128894","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.jpg by Fritz Cohen (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yitzhak_Ben-Zvi.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.jpg — Fritz Cohen, Public domain.","cite":"\"Yitzhak Ben-Zvi\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/yitzhak-ben-zvi. Retrieved 7 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T08:59:15Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-07","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/yitzhak-ben-zvi","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/yitzhak-ben-zvi","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/yitzhak-ben-zvi?lang=ne"}}