Netanyahu called Navon "one of the nation's finest and among its greatest builders…, the scion of the glorious Sephardic Jewish community."
President Reuven Rivlin described Yitzchak Navon as a "noble man" after the fifth President of Israel died on Saturday. He called him "unceremoniously aristocratic, a president who came from the people, and whom the people greatly loved and appreciated." Rivlin added: Yitzchak was a man of spirit and action, who alongside Ben-Gurion dealt with the establishment […]
The President of Israel from 1978 to 1983, unlike his predecessors, was born in Israel and unlike his successors, was a respected educator.