In 2000, Rau was the first German head of state since the Holocaust to address the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in German.

Begin was elected to the first Knesset, as head of Herut, the party he founded, and was at first on the political fringe, embodying the opposition to the Mapai-led government and Israeli establishment.

The absence of armed personnel had worried Israeli delegation head Shmuel Lalkin even before his team arrived in Munich.

He details the assassination in Paris in 1992 of Atef Bseiso, the PLO's head of intelligence, and says that an Israeli general confirmed there was a link back to Munich.

Head of the Government, Hebrew acronym: ;, Rais al-Hukuma ) is the head of the Israeli government and the most powerful political figure in Israel ( the position of President of Israel is largely honorary ).

Also attending were at least one Israeli peace activist ( Uri Avnery, head of Gush Shalom ) and a Christian minister.

Sara Abdul-Azim Abdul-Haq Hasan, 18 months, of Sarah, near Salfit, killed by Israeli settler gunfire to her head while riding with her father in a car.

Ala Muhammad Abdul-Rahman Mahfuz al-Jawabra, 14, of Aroob refugee camp, died of head wounds sustained Oct. 6 from IDF gunfire while on the terrace of his home one hour after injuring an Israeli soldier with a stone.

* December 1: Muhammad Saleh Muhammad al-Arja, 12, of Rafah, Gaza, killed by Israeli sniper fire to his head near the Rafah boder crossing.

The Israeli army kill West Bank head of the Izzeddin al-Qassam Brigades, Yusif Suragji and three other Hamas members in Nablus.

* 1 August: A 27-year old Israeli man was found shot in the head at point-blank range and bound, west of Tulkarem, near the Green Line.

In April 2002, he was at the head of an activist group arriving in the West Bank to protest the massive Israeli Army operation conducted at that time that caused many civilian Palestinian casualties (" Operation Defensive Shield " in official Israeli terminology ).

King Abdullah II of Jordan described the assassination as a " crime "; Lebanon's president Emile Lahud vehemently denounced the Israeli act as "... a crime will not succeed in liquidating the Palestinian cause "; Emir of Kuwait Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah said: " Violence will increase now because violence always breeds violence "; the head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Mohammed Akef, described Yassin as a " martyr " and his assassination a " cowardly operation.

Israeli President Moshe Katsav visited Jasenovac in 2003, and was the first Israeli head of state to officially visit the country.

On March 13, 2009, American ISM volunteer Tristan Anderson was critically injured after being hit in the head by a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops attempting to disperse a demonstration.

On 25 March 1987, WJC leaders Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Israel Singer, Sol Kanee and Elan Steinberg, as well as the head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Morris Berthold Abram, arrived in Moscow to discuss the matter with Soviet government ministers, though officials swiftly denied that the USSR had agreed to an increase in Jewish emigration and had invited an Israeli delegation to visit Moscow.

Later, in 1999, the Israeli Supreme Court heard several petitions against Shabak methods, including ( 1 ) " forceful and repeated shaking of the suspect's upper torso, in a manner which causes the neck and head to swing rapidly ," ( 2 ) manacling of the suspect in a painful " Shabach position " for a long period of time, ( 3 ) the " frog crouch " consisting of " consecutive, periodical crouches on the tips of one's toes ," and other methods.

In one version of the story, the apple is supposed to have fallen on Newton's head ; this version appears to be invented by Isaac D ' Israeli.

* Admiral Ami Ayalon, commander of the Israeli Navy and later head of the Shin Bet internal security service.

Sabra was developed and introduced in 1963 by Edgar Bronfman, Sr., the head of Seagram, to be an identifiably Israeli liqueur.

" Israeli censors tried to prevent Israeli newspapers from publishing the fact that the head of military intelligence, Uri Saguy, had witnessed the accident, but the censors relented a few weeks later.

Rabbi Chaim Weiner succeeded Louis Jacobs as head of the New London Synagogue, but when Weiner was appointed head of the new European Masorti Beth Din in 2005, Jacobs returned.

As the spiritual head of the United Synagogue, the largest synagogue body in the UK, he is the Chief Rabbi of the British Orthodox synagogues, but he is not a religious authority for the Federation of Synagogues or the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations or the other movements, Masorti, Reform and Liberal Judaism.

The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards ( CJLS ) is the movement's central body on interpreting Jewish law and custom ; it was founded by the Rabbinical Assembly in 1927, with Max Drob as its first head.

The movement's commercial name ( most commonly used ) derives from the famous legend of Wilhelm Tell, shooting the apple off his son's head with a single arrow.

Henry Hamilton Beamish, head of The Britons, served as vice-president of the IFL and was a regular speaker at the movement's events.

With the war drawing to a close, command fell to Robert Mugabe, previously ZANU's number two leader after Tongogara and head of the movement's political wing.

And in any case it is known that the Rabbis who preceded me were subordinate to their Ashkenazi counterparts, the Gaon Rabbi Benzion Uziel Z " l was subordinate to the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook ZT " L ... and the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Toledano Z " l in his capacity as Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa could not even raise his head towards his colleague, may he be chosen for a good life, the Gaon Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman Shlit " a and to disagree with him on Halakha ...

-- Dynafac in a complete ration or 0.3 to 0.4 gram per head per day ( 200 grams of premix per ton complete ration or equivalent.

We also have an ' engineering section head -- research engineer ' classification which has salary possibilities equivalent to that of a research engineer.

The length of the compound head was equivalent to the distance between the planes of a man ’ s chest to his back.

Thus, despite widely held popular belief outside the Orthodox cultures, there is not one bishop at the head of the Orthodox Church ; references to the Patriarch of Constantinople as a leader equivalent or comparable to a pope in the Roman Catholic Church are mistaken.

Haiti uses very little energy, the equivalent of approximately 250 kilograms of oil per head per year.

The same role in a federal constituent and a dependent territory is fulfilled by the corresponding office equivalent to that of a head of state.

In republics with a parliamentary system ( such as India, Germany, Austria, Italy and Israel ) the head of state is usually titled " president " or its equivalent, but the main functions of such a president are ceremonial, as opposed to the president in a presidential or semi-presidential system.

Since real political power belongs to the sole legal party, in certain states under Marxist constitutions of the constitutionally socialist state type inspired by the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ) and its constitutive Soviet republics, there was no formal office of head of state, but rather the leader of the legislative branch was considered to be the closest common equivalent of a head of state as a natural person.

The head of state accredits ( i. e. formally validates ) his or her country's ambassadors, High Commissioners or rarer equivalent diplomatic mission chiefs ( such as papal nuncio ), through sending formal Letter of Credence to other heads of state and, conversely, receives the letters of their foreign counterparts.

The amount of energy delivered to the target by the hammer-blow is equivalent to one half the mass of the head times the square of the head's speed at the time of impact ().

During Karmal's rule, Najibullah became head of the KHAD, the Afghan equivalent to the Soviet KGB.

In 1980, he was appointed the head of KHAD, the Afghan equivalent to the Soviet KGB, and was promoted to the rank of Major General.

The latter position was equivalent to the head of state under the Soviet system.

The very approximate equivalent of an U. S. A-G would be the Ministro della Giustizia, who is a member of the government and head of the Italian Department of Justice.

In Spain, Rector or Rector Magnífico ( magnific rector, from Latin Rector Magnificus ) is the highest administrative and educational office in a university, equivalent to that of President or Chancellor of an English-speaking university, but holding all the powers of a vice-chancellor ; they are thus the head of the academi in Universities.

* The head of a Bar association or equivalent body in some jurisdictions

During the Central Committee plenum of 19 December 1930, Alexey Rykov, the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars ( the equivalent of a Western head of government ) was succeeded by Molotov.

In other cultures no crown is used in the equivalent of coronation, but the head may still be otherwise symbolically adorned, as a royal tikka in the Hindu tradition of India.

Consequently by the 11th century, a hierarchy of minsters became apparent ; cathedral churches, or head minsters having pre-eminence within a diocese ; surviving old minsters being pre-eminent within an area broadly equivalent to an administrative hundred ; while newer lesser minsters and field churches were increasingly proliferating on local estates.

Törni's unit inflicted such heavy casualties on Russian units that the Soviet Army placed a bounty on his head ( 3 million Finnish Marks, equivalent to 650, 000 USD ).

In Finland, the Elämän Sana (" the Word of life ") group, as the most " mainline " of the different branches of Laestadianism, has been prominent within the hierarchy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland: Two members have been elected bishops of Oulu, and one has served as Chaplain General ( head chaplain of the Finnish Defence Forces and the equivalent of a Major General ).

The head voice of a man is, according to David A. Clippinger most likely equivalent to the middle voice of a woman.

This may mean the head voice of a woman is a man's falsetto equivalent.