Yitzhak Shamir - underground leader, spymaster, parliamentarian and the seventh Prime Minister of the State of Israel - was born Yizhak Yzernitzky in Ruzinoy, Poland in 1915.
Yitzhak Shamir differentiates the Israeli struggle against the British mandatory administration from the Palestinian struggle against Israeli rule, saying, ''But we never attacked civilians, women and children. . . .''
