President Yitzhak Herzog paid tribute to Levy, who died on Sunday and who helped form Israel’s politics in essential positions for many years. “David Levy will go down in Israel’s historical past as an emblem of nationwide unity and social exercise,” Herzog mentioned. “He formed society and the State of Israel.”
Levy was born in Morocco in 1937 and settled in Israel in 1959. From 1969, he was a member of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, for 36 years. In 1977, he turned a minister and in his lengthy profession held numerous portfolios and cupboard posts, from immigration minister and labor minister to international minister and deputy prime minister.
Levy was a rival of the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In 1992, he misplaced to Netanyahu within the race for the chairmanship of the right-wing Likud celebration. Netanyahu praised Levy on Sunday as a “devoted servant of the state for many years.”
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