Former Israeli Parliament Speaker
Dov Shilansky, Israeli parliament speaker from 1988 to 1992 and advocate for memorializing the victims of the Nazi Holocaust of World War II was eighty six years old. Shilansky, who served as MK on behalf of the Likud party for 19 years, had worked tirelessly to commemorate the Holocaust. Minister Silvan Shalom told Ynet that "Dov was a leader who really represented the eternal continuity of the Jewish people. He was a selected officer, the Knesset speaker, but still an ordinary person, a friend who helps the little guy. He represented the national values in the best way in the most beautiful way possible, and we will miss him." Shilansky died at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, parliament spokesman Giora Pordes told The Associated Press.
The diminutive politician with an unruly thatch of white hair was known for his hard-line political views alongside an easygoing manner and ready smile. Possibly his longest lasting legacy is a ceremony that has become part of Israel's observance of an annual memorial day for the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust. Concerned that this huge number was incomprehensible, in 1989 he got fellow lawmakers to stand at a podium in the parliament building and read names of victims. The custom, known as "Every Person Has a Name," quickly spread to public squares all over Israel. After retiring from politics, Shilansky served on the board of Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Memorial authority. Born in Lithuania, Shilansky immigrated to Israel in 1948. He was a lawyer by training and was first elected to parliament for the Likud Party in 1977. Later he was appointed a deputy minister in Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government. In 1993, he was the Likud candidate for the ceremonial post of president. Shilansky is survived by two children, according to Pordes. Another son died in 1974 while serving in the Israeli army.
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"Dad died a painless death," his son Shafir Shilansky told Ynet. "He would have wanted to be remembered as a Holocaust survivor, who came to Israel aboard the Altalena, as the father of Yossi, may he rest in peace, my elder brother who was killed in 1974."
His wife, Rochel, whom he met at the Jewish kindergarten in Lithuania, passed away two years ago at the age of 84. The couple lost their son Yossi to the Yom Kippur War. Shafir Shilansky said his father has asked not to be buried in Jerusalem but in the burial site for bereaved parents in Kiryat Shaul, next to his wife and son.
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Dov Shilansky, Israeli parliament speaker from 1988 to 1992 and advocate for memorializing the victims of the Nazi Holocaust of World War II was eighty six years old. Shilansky, who served as MK on behalf of the Likud party for 19 years, had worked tirelessly to commemorate the Holocaust. Minister Silvan Shalom told Ynet that "Dov was a leader who really represented the eternal continuity of the Jewish people. He was a selected officer, the Knesset speaker, but still an ordinary person, a friend who helps the little guy. He represented the national values in the best way in the most beautiful way possible, and we will miss him." Shilansky died at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, parliament spokesman Giora Pordes told The Associated Press.
The diminutive politician with an unruly thatch of white hair was known for his hard-line political views alongside an easygoing manner and ready smile. Possibly his longest lasting legacy is a ceremony that has become part of Israel's observance of an annual memorial day for the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust. Concerned that this huge number was incomprehensible, in 1989 he got fellow lawmakers to stand at a podium in the parliament building and read names of victims. The custom, known as "Every Person Has a Name," quickly spread to public squares all over Israel. After retiring from politics, Shilansky served on the board of Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Memorial authority. Born in Lithuania, Shilansky immigrated to Israel in 1948. He was a lawyer by training and was first elected to parliament for the Likud Party in 1977. Later he was appointed a deputy minister in Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government. In 1993, he was the Likud candidate for the ceremonial post of president. Shilansky is survived by two children, according to Pordes. Another son died in 1974 while serving in the Israeli army.
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"Dad died a painless death," his son Shafir Shilansky told Ynet. "He would have wanted to be remembered as a Holocaust survivor, who came to Israel aboard the Altalena, as the father of Yossi, may he rest in peace, my elder brother who was killed in 1974."
His wife, Rochel, whom he met at the Jewish kindergarten in Lithuania, passed away two years ago at the age of 84. The couple lost their son Yossi to the Yom Kippur War. Shafir Shilansky said his father has asked not to be buried in Jerusalem but in the burial site for bereaved parents in Kiryat Shaul, next to his wife and son.
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Former Israeli Parliament Speaker
Dov Shilansky, Israeli parliament speaker from 1988 to 1992 and advocate for memorializing the victims of the Nazi Holocaust of World War II was eighty six years old. Shilansky, who served as MK on behalf of the Likud party for 19 years, had worked tirelessly to commemorate the Holocaust. Minister Silvan Shalom told Ynet that "Dov was a leader who really represented the eternal continuity of the Jewish people. He was a selected officer, the Knesset speaker, but still an ordinary person, a friend who helps the little guy. He represented the national values in the best way in the most beautiful way possible, and we will miss him." Shilansky died at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, parliament spokesman Giora Pordes told The Associated Press.
The diminutive politician with an unruly thatch of white hair was known for his hard-line political views alongside an easygoing manner and ready smile. Possibly his longest lasting legacy is a ceremony that has become part of Israel's observance of an annual memorial day for the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust. Concerned that this huge number was incomprehensible, in 1989 he got fellow lawmakers to stand at a podium in the parliament building and read names of victims. The custom, known as "Every Person Has a Name," quickly spread to public squares all over Israel. After retiring from politics, Shilansky served on the board of Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Memorial authority. Born in Lithuania, Shilansky immigrated to Israel in 1948. He was a lawyer by training and was first elected to parliament for the Likud Party in 1977. Later he was appointed a deputy minister in Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government. In 1993, he was the Likud candidate for the ceremonial post of president. Shilansky is survived by two children, according to Pordes. Another son died in 1974 while serving in the Israeli army.
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"Dad died a painless death," his son Shafir Shilansky told Ynet. "He would have wanted to be remembered as a Holocaust survivor, who came to Israel aboard the Altalena, as the father of Yossi, may he rest in peace, my elder brother who was killed in 1974."
His wife, Rochel, whom he met at the Jewish kindergarten in Lithuania, passed away two years ago at the age of 84. The couple lost their son Yossi to the Yom Kippur War. Shafir Shilansky said his father has asked not to be buried in Jerusalem but in the burial site for bereaved parents in Kiryat Shaul, next to his wife and son.
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Dov Shilansky, Israeli parliament speaker from 1988 to 1992 and advocate for memorializing the victims of the Nazi Holocaust of World War II was eighty six years old. Shilansky, who served as MK on behalf of the Likud party for 19 years, had worked tirelessly to commemorate the Holocaust. Minister Silvan Shalom told Ynet that "Dov was a leader who really represented the eternal continuity of the Jewish people. He was a selected officer, the Knesset speaker, but still an ordinary person, a friend who helps the little guy. He represented the national values in the best way in the most beautiful way possible, and we will miss him." Shilansky died at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, parliament spokesman Giora Pordes told The Associated Press.
The diminutive politician with an unruly thatch of white hair was known for his hard-line political views alongside an easygoing manner and ready smile. Possibly his longest lasting legacy is a ceremony that has become part of Israel's observance of an annual memorial day for the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust. Concerned that this huge number was incomprehensible, in 1989 he got fellow lawmakers to stand at a podium in the parliament building and read names of victims. The custom, known as "Every Person Has a Name," quickly spread to public squares all over Israel. After retiring from politics, Shilansky served on the board of Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Memorial authority. Born in Lithuania, Shilansky immigrated to Israel in 1948. He was a lawyer by training and was first elected to parliament for the Likud Party in 1977. Later he was appointed a deputy minister in Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government. In 1993, he was the Likud candidate for the ceremonial post of president. Shilansky is survived by two children, according to Pordes. Another son died in 1974 while serving in the Israeli army.
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"Dad died a painless death," his son Shafir Shilansky told Ynet. "He would have wanted to be remembered as a Holocaust survivor, who came to Israel aboard the Altalena, as the father of Yossi, may he rest in peace, my elder brother who was killed in 1974."
His wife, Rochel, whom he met at the Jewish kindergarten in Lithuania, passed away two years ago at the age of 84. The couple lost their son Yossi to the Yom Kippur War. Shafir Shilansky said his father has asked not to be buried in Jerusalem but in the burial site for bereaved parents in Kiryat Shaul, next to his wife and son.
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