Yitzhak navon

Grapevine, June 6, 2025: A man and his legacy

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 ELI AMIR receives his Life Achievement citation from President Isaac Herzog at the Yitzhak Navon Legacy Awards  ceremony held at the President’s Residence by the Culture and Sport Ministry.
 FORMER PRESIDENT Reuven Rivlin with President Isaac Herzog at the annual memorial ceremony for Chaim Herzog in 2022.

Grapevine, July 30 2023: Rivlin roars

Thousands wave the Israeli flag as they protest against the judicial overhaul at the Knesset in Jerusalem. February 20, 2023.

Pro and anti-reform protestors savor a moment of unity - editorial

 Israel's fifth president Yitzhak Navon.

Remembering president Navon and his legacy of social cohesion in Israel


Erez Navon: 'What I’m doing for his legacy is for us as a nation’

Erez Navon to speak on a panel dedicated to marking the centenary of his father’s birth.

PRESIDENT YITZHAK NAVON with his first wife, Ofira, and their children, Naama and Erez

Isaac Herzog, Israel's 11th president: ambition fulfilled, plan in hand

Fulfilling his long-time presidential ambition – with more votes than any previous president – he is the country's first direct second-generation one and the second to emerge from the Jewish Agency.

Incoming President Isaac Herzog speaks at the memorial for Yoni Netanyahu

Zionism before Herzl and the Jewish connection to the capital

Rivlin, even before he became the country’s number one citizen, was a walking symbol of Jerusalem, always responding to greetings by interviewers: “Shalom from Jerusalem, the capital of Israel."

President Reuven Rivlin

Grapevine: From Navon to Navon

The Ladino Festival at Habimah Theater has been named after Yitzhak Navon.

PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN with the cast of ‘Bustan Sephardi,’ which was written by Israel’s fifth president, Yitzhak Navon. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Navon, Peres to be memorialized at President's residence

The two former presidents have been honored with a new gate at the residence.

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Racism at the top? The real scandal and motive behind the scandal of President Katzav

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Tuning up

Keshet Eilon celebrates its 26th anniversary.

Chinese violinist Ziyu He

Grapevine: Chock-a-block festival

Former president Yitzhak Navon

Yitzhak Navon - the people’s president

The fifth President of Israel, Yitzhak Navon personified a moral and modest leadership, which those currently at the helm of the state, unfortunately, lack.

Former president Yitzhak Navon

Walking with history

Remembering Yitzhak Navon, the Jewish state’s fifth president who died last weekend at 94 – one of those unusual figures who found favor in the eyes of nearly all who knew him.

In a surprise arranged by President’s Residence workers, children welcome Navon with flags and song upon his return from a trip to the US in 1983

First Person: The Yitzhak Navon I knew

The fifth president was brilliant but modest, erudite in the Bible and Judaism, able to communicate in six languages with cleaning workers and kings, a talented playwright and lover of Jerusalem.

President Yitzhak Navon at the wedding of Judy Siegel and her husband, Nahum Itzkovich