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Israeli President Ezer Weizman and his wife Reuma during ceremony for Italian president, 11 October, 19992. Weizman before speech to high schools student where he spoke against gays, 23 December, 19963. Wide...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eVarious dates and locations\u003cbr/\u003e1. Israeli President Ezer Weizman and his wife Reuma during ceremony for Italian president, 11 October, 1999\u003cbr/\u003e2. Weizman before speech to high schools student where he spoke against gays, 23 December, 1996\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide shot and mid shot of gay demo against Weizman where they scream: ''Weizman be ashamed, we don't want a stupid President''\u003cbr/\u003e4. STILL Weizman as Israeli air force pilot, 7 July, 1949\u003cbr/\u003e5. STILL Weizman in cockpit of his black spitfire, 25 June, 1966\u003cbr/\u003e6. STILL General Weizman and David Ben Gurion at an air base on air force day, 6 July, 1967\u003cbr/\u003e7. STILL Weizman and Carter at Camp David, 6 September, 1978\u003cbr/\u003e8. STILL Sadat, Weizman and Carter at Camp David, September, 1978\u003cbr/\u003eChannel 2\u003cbr/\u003eVarious dates and locations\u003cbr/\u003e9. Weizman arriving in Egypt to meet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 28 September, 1997\u003cbr/\u003eVarious dates and locations\u003cbr/\u003e10. Weizman (with Shimon Peres) signs up with Labour, 22 August, 1984\u003cbr/\u003e11. UPSOUND (English) Weizman, saying: \"We agreed first of all that the best thing for the state of Israel is a National Unity Government\", 1982\u003cbr/\u003e12. Weizman screaming to journalists before leaving to Cairo, 15 May, 1985\u003cbr/\u003e13. Weizman at Knesset before resigning, 3 February, 1992\u003cbr/\u003e14. UPSOUND (English) Weizman speaking after resigning: \u003cbr/\u003e''A public figure, and specially an elected one, if he comes to a conclusion that his contribution is limited, he has to quit.'', 3 February, 1992\u003cbr/\u003eChannel 2\u003cbr/\u003eVarious dates and locations\u003cbr/\u003e15. Weizman walking at ceremony before being sworn in, 22 October, 1994\u003cbr/\u003e16. Weizman swearing, elected president, 22 October, 1994\u003cbr/\u003eVarious dates and locations\u003cbr/\u003e17. Weizman speaking at funeral of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's funeral, 6 November, 1995\u003cbr/\u003e18. Weizman with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he takes office with new government, 19 June, 1996\u003cbr/\u003e19. Weizman in Gaza for talks with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, 6 May, 1997\u003cbr/\u003e20. Weizman visiting soldiers in the Golan, 22 November, 1995, UPSOUND (English): \u003cbr/\u003e''We have to come to peace with the Syrians the question is the time factor and the solution, what will be the permanent solution here.''\u003cbr/\u003e21. The late King Hussein of Jordan visiting Weizman at hospital, 13 March, 1997\u003cbr/\u003eVarious dates and locations\u003cbr/\u003e22. Peace forum at Weizman's residence with Russian President Mikael Gorbachev, 11 January, 1999\u003cbr/\u003e23. Weizman and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, 6 January, 2000\u003cbr/\u003e24. Establisher of Yoav Yitzhak, the journalist that revealed the Saroussi/Weizman scandal, 4 January, 2000\u003cbr/\u003eVarious dates and locations\u003cbr/\u003e25. Edouard Saroussi, who was alleged to have transferred money to Weizman, leaving to go to France\u003cbr/\u003eVarious dates and locations\u003cbr/\u003e26. Weizman after news of scandal, 4 January, 2000\u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Ezer Weizman:\u003cbr/\u003e''I won't face any investigation until the state's Attorney Edna Arbel decision.'', 4 January, 2000\u003cbr/\u003e28. Weizman during ceremony for Polish president, 4 October, 1999\u003cbr/\u003eFormer Israeli President Ezer Weizman, a flying ace and crack military commander who built up the nation's air force and helped bring about the Jewish state's first peace treaty with an Arab country, has died, Israel Radio said Sunday. \u003cbr/\u003eHe was 80.\u003cbr/\u003eIn nearly three decades in political life, he made a highly public transition from hawk to dove, saying the Jews had to learn to \"share this part of the world\" with the Arabs.\u003cbr/\u003eAs Defence Minister in 1979, he was instrumental in negotiating Israel's peace treaty with Egypt.\u003cbr/\u003eWeizman's casual style breathed life into the presidency, a largely ceremonial office, and endeared him to the Israeli public. His bluntness and sharp-tongued barbs often got him into trouble.\u003cbr/\u003eHe never shied from making his opinions known, even when that opened him to criticism that he was overstepping his authority. \u003cbr/\u003eHe told high school students he opposed homosexuals coming out of the closet, and outraged religious Jews by saying the Bible contained \"unpleasant\" passages that needn't be read. \u003cbr/\u003eFeminists were furious when he called a female soldier trying to become a pilot \"missy\" and asked her if she had ever seen a man darning socks.\u003cbr/\u003eWeizman was born in the northern port city of Haifa on June 15, 1924. \u003cbr/\u003eHis uncle, Chaim Weizmann, was Israel's first president.\u003cbr/\u003eHe learned to fly at 16 and in World War II underwent flight training in Britain, later serving as a fighter pilot in Egypt and India.\u003cbr/\u003eReturning to Palestine in 1946, he became one of the Israeli army's first pilots and undertook daring missions in the 1948 War of Independence.\u003cbr/\u003eHe was sent to study at the Royal Air Force staff college in England in 1951, and in 1958 was appointed commander of the Israeli air force.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 6-foot-2 (190 centimetres) commander fostered among his men the idea that the Israeli air force was superior.\u003cbr/\u003eIn 1977 Weizman headed the election campaign that launched right-wing politician Menachem Begin to power after the 29-year reign of the rival Labour Party.\u003cbr/\u003eOn December 20 of that year, Weizman made a secret trip to Egypt. \u003cbr/\u003eThat trip - and the friendship he formed with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat - served as a catalyst to the negotiations that culminated in the US-sponsored Camp David agreements between Israel and Egypt.\u003cbr/\u003eWeizman's natural rapport with people and his untiring diplomacy helped keep the leaders of the two enemy countries at the negotiating table through many crises, as he recounted in a gossipy account entitled \"The Battle for Peace\" published in 1980.\u003cbr/\u003eThat same year he resigned abruptly from Begin's cabinet because he failed to win government approval for a plan to grant Palestinians autonomy in the occupied West Bank - one of the major points of the Camp David accords.\u003cbr/\u003eWeizman believed unremittingly in the need to expand the peace with Egypt to include Jordan and Israel's other neighbours. It constituted a pillar of his platform when he returned to politics in the 1984 elections at the head of the centrist \"Yahad\" (Together) Party.\u003cbr/\u003eHe won only two seats in the 120-member parliament and joined forces with the Labour Party of Prime Minister Shimon Peres.\u003cbr/\u003eWeizman explained his decision to switch his allegiance to Labour by citing Likud's failure to follow up the peace process.\u003cbr/\u003eHis political shift has been attributed to the hurt he felt over his only son, Shaul, who never fully recovered from the wounds suffered in Israel's 1970 war with Egypt. Shaul died in a car accident in 1991.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter the Palestinian uprising began in 1987, Weizman broke party line and advocated negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organisation, then outlawed in Israel as a terrorist organisation.\u003cbr/\u003eWeizman, who served as minister for Arab affairs and later minister of science and technology, was forced out of the decision-making \"inner Cabinet\" in 1990 for reported contacts with the PLO.\u003cbr/\u003eIn February 1992, he resigned from the government and politics, saying, \"I no longer feel I can contribute\" and accusing the government of resisting efforts to end the Middle East conflict.\u003cbr/\u003eIsraeli peace crusaders were delighted when the Knesset elected Weizman as president in 1993. \u003cbr/\u003eAt his swearing-in, he urged \"friendship and brotherhood\" between Arabs and Israelis.\u003cbr/\u003eBut when Israel signed a peace accord with the PLO later that year, Weizman complained that it had been done in haste.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter a series of suicide bombs by Islamic militants, Weizman defied the Labor government line by calling for peace talks to be suspended.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter the election of hard-line Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996, however, Weizman pushed Netanyahu to meet with Arafat by inviting the Palestinian leader to a meeting at the president's seaside villa in Caesarea _ Arafat's first public visit to Israel.\u003cbr/\u003eIn 1997, he raised a diplomatic uproar by reportedly urging US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to \"bash together the heads\" of Netanyahu and Arafat to end a prolonged crisis in peace talks.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter Weizman was elected to a second term in 1998 despite Netanyahu's backing of his opponent, he stepped up his criticism of the prime minister's handling of the peace process, charging that Netanyahu had misled him and was \"cut off from reality.\"\u003cbr/\u003eLike no other president before him, Weizman continue with a very high 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