Levi Eshkol
| Levi Eshkol לֵוִי אֶשְׁכּוֹל |
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| 3rd Prime Minister of Israel | |
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In office 21 June 1963 – 26 February 1969 |
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| Preceded by | David Ben-Gurion |
| Succeeded by | Yigal Allon (Acting) |
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In office 26 June 1963 – 5 June 1967 |
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| Preceded by | David Ben-Gurion |
| Succeeded by | Moshe Dayan |
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Levi Shkolnik 25 October 1895 Orativ, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 26 February 1969 (aged 73) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Nationality |
 Russian Empire Ottoman Empire United Kingdom Israel
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| Political party | Mapai, Alignment |
| Spouse(s) | Rebecca Maharshek (div. 1927) Elisheva Kaplan (d. 1959) Miriam Zelikowitz (until his death) |
| Children | 4 |
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Levi Eshkol (Hebrew: לֵוִי אֶשְׁכּוֹל; born Levi Shkolnik (Hebrew: לוי שקולניק) 25 October 1895 – 26 February 1969) served as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969. He was the first Israeli Prime Minister to die in office.
Levi Eshkol (Shkolnik) was born in the shtetl of Oratov, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (now Orativ, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine). His mother (born as Dvora Krasnyanskaya) came from a Hasidic background and his father (Joseph Shkolnik) came from a family of Mitnagdim. Eshkol received a traditional Jewish education in Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania).
In 1914, he left for Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He was a leading member of the Judea Workers' Union in 1915–17. During World War I, he volunteered with the Jewish Legion. He played an important part in the Suez Canal Crisis 1956 by financing military outposts and was accused of funding the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt helping Israel survive through the time.
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