Yitzhak Shamir was born on 22 October 1915 in Ruzhany, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Brest Oblast, Belarus]. He was married to Shulamit Levy. He died on 30 June 2012 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe only one thing: that by his act he will change the course of history.
