Rehavam Ze'evi

Rehaw'am Ze'ewi (Hebrew רחבעם זאבי, alternative spelling Rehavam Zeevi, born June 20, 1926 in Jerusalem, † October 17, 2001 ) was an Israeli general, politician and historian who founded the right-wing nationalist Moledet party. He died in an attack that was carried out by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine during the Al -Aqsa Intifada.

In 1974 he was anti-terrorism advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. In 1975 he became a consultant for the secret. Ze'ewi stepped back from this position in 1977, when Begin became prime minister in 1977. Ze'ewi 1981 was appointed director of the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel -Aviv.

In 1988 he founded the party Ze'ewi Moledet ( "homeland" ). This movement had set itself as a main objective the expulsion of Palestinians from Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. This he wanted to achieve, inter alia, that life will made ​​the Palestinians so unbearable that she went by herself. Ze'ewi was very disappointed with the Madrid Middle East Conference in 1991 and left the Likud government of Yitzhak Shamir. In the next 10 years he remained in opposition. The government of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres as he leaned down like that of Ehud Barak. Following the election of Ariel Sharon as prime minister in 2001, he was Minister of Tourism. He spoke out in favor of interviews that Jordan should belong to Israel.