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Ezer Weizman was a legendary Israeli figure who reached heights in the military (commander of the Israeli Air Force), government (Defense Minister) and state (President), with stories abounding of his patriotism, foresight and force of personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several people who worked closely with Weizman praised him for something else: his heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ezer Weizman after being elected as Israel’s seventh President, 1993. Photo<\/a> by Zeev Ackerman, the Dan Hadani Archive, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Moshe Shahar, Weizman\u2019s driver for the latter\u2019s year-plus as Science Minister and seven years as President, calls him \u201cone of the most special people I ever met.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When, as President, Weizman visited Israelis recovering from Palestinian terrorist attacks and made shiva visits to families of those murdered, he refused to ride there in the armored vehicles his security staff preferred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI won\u2019t travel in such a car while Israelis are being blown up on buses,\u201d Shahar remembered Weizman telling him. Shahar said he instead drove Weizman in a standard presidential vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe wanted to be like everyone else,\u201d Shahar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arye Shomer, the chief of staff of Weizman\u2019s presidential office, pointed to a tragic national disaster that occurred during his term, when two Sikorski choppers collided in the Galilee panhandle on February 4, 1997, killing 73 Israel Defense Forces soldiers aboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weizman was determined to make shiva visits to families of all 73 victims \u2014 and did just that. Shomer, who worked for Weizman for three decades, called that commitment \u201ca true expression of participating in the families\u2019 mourning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe wanted them to know how much he understands them, feels for them,\u201d Shomer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weizman could identify with the families\u2019 grief, having suffered the deaths of his son Shaul and daughter-in-law Rachel in a car accident in 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Weizman with his family during his time in the Air Force. Photo<\/a> by Boris Karmi, the Meitar Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Weizman passed away in 2005 at age 80. June 15 marked a century since his birth and is an opportunity to recall the public figure and the man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was one of Israel\u2019s most powerful and interesting personalities: a high achiever and confident, but secure enough in his own skin not to crave adulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the start, Weizman\u2019s heredity stood out. He was the nephew of pre-state Zionist leader and Israel\u2019s first President, Chaim Weizmann. (The Weizmans were the first family to spawn two heads of state, the second being the current President, Yitzhak Herzog, and his father, Chaim.) Ezer Weizman\u2019s widow, Reuma, who in August will turn 99, is the sister of Rachel Dayan, who married future Defense Minister Moshe Dayan.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ezer Weizman during his time in the Israeli Air Force. Photo<\/a> by Boris Karmi, the Meitar Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Weizman made his greatest impact on the Israeli Air Force as one of its founders, rising to become IAF commander from 1958 to 1966. He commanded the Ramat David Air Force Base in the Jezreel Valley, which later was named for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many credit Weizman with laying the groundwork for Israel’s lightning-quick destruction of most of the Egyptian Air Force while its planes were still on the ground in the opening hours of the Six-Day War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWeizman will always be identified with the Israeli Air Force from its inception through its astonishing victory in the Six-Day War and its contribution to current times, having supremacy in the skies,\u201d said Tel Aviv resident Jeffrey Weiss, who co-authored a 2022 book on the nascent IAF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weizman pictured in the Spitfire he flew during Israel’s War of Independence. Photo<\/a>: the Dan Hadani Archive, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Shomer said Weizman explained to him that he shifted to flying while serving in Africa in the mid-1940s with Great Britain\u2019s Royal Air Force. As a truck driver in the RAF, Weizman nearly was killed by a bomb dropped from a RAF plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s when I decided to become a pilot,\u201d Shomer said Weizman told him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In later years, Weizman regularly got together with other IAF commanders. It was inconceivable for a gathering to take place if Weizman \u2014 who\u2019d nicknamed himself “The Duke” early on as a pilot \u2014 couldn\u2019t make it, Shomer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the War of Independence, Weizman was one of only two native Israeli pilots in the 101st Squadron, Israel\u2019s only fighter squadron then, and \u201cwas beloved by the men who flew with him,\u201d nearly all of them Americans, Canadians, South Africans and Britons, said Weiss.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Weizman with his family during his time in the Air Force. Photo<\/a> by Boris Karmi, the Meitar Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Weiss related Reuma Weizman\u2019s telling him that she first met her future husband when he was driving a car bearing a 101st Squadron logo \u2014 a car another pilot had stolen in a prank typical for the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was a fun-loving guy, rowdy,\u201d Weiss said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Weizman was all-business in matters of security and diplomacy. He became a key figure in the negotiations leading to the Egypt-Israel peace treaty in 1979. He was Defense Minister then, and as a speaker of Arabic he developed a strong bond with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Ezer Weizman with Anwar Sadat’s niece and nephew during their visit to Israel on the 16th anniversary of the late Egyptian President’s historic address to the Knesset, 1993. Photo<\/a> by Zeev Ackerman, the Dan Hadani Archive, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By that point, Weizman was in the midst of a two-decade stint in Knesset and served as a minister in governments of the right and then the left as his political leanings evolved<\/a>. (Accepting financial gifts late in his political career came to light years later and led Weizman to resign as president.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arriving at Beit Hanasi (“The President’s House”), the Weizmans strove to hire people of diverse backgrounds to reflect Israel\u2019s multiethnic population, and did so \u201cfor meaningful jobs,\u201d said Ziona Rosental, who worked there for 37 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey were a special couple,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Ezer Weizman in the cockpit of an Israeli Air Force helicopter, 1993. Photo<\/a> by Zeev Ackerman, the Dan Hadani Archive, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In an interview for this article, Shomer related several stories about Weizman\u2019s empathy as President, like helping to arrange for dental work for a gardener at Beit Hanasi and dedicating scores of Torah scrolls to the memories of fallen soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One story was less consequential but revelatory. It involved the Weizmans\u2019 state visit to London in 1997. He was seated at a state dinner next to the Queen Mother, whose daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, was the evening\u2019s hostess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something about the discomfort of the Queen Mother, age 96, registered with Weizman. He summoned a waiter and asked that another chair be brought over for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The request was carried out. Several people clapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Said Shomer: \u201cHe was very human.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Writer-editor Hillel Kuttler can be reached at <\/em>hk@HillelTheScribeCommunications.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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