Editing Yitzhak Shamir (section)

==Early life==
Yitzhak Yezernitsky was born in the predominantly Jewish village of [[Ruzhany]],<ref>{{citation |publisher=Rambler Media Group |title=Died former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir}}.</ref> [[Bialystok-Grodno District]] of [[Ober Ost]], shortly thereafter incorporated into the [[Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918)|Kingdom of Poland]] (now in Belarus), as the son of Perla and Shlomo, owner of a leather factory.<ref>{{citation |last=Wilson |first=H.W. |editor=Graham, Judith |display-editors=et al. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ybp2xI8NXPUC&q=perla+Shlomo+shamir |title=Current Biography Yearbook, 1996 |publisher=H. W. Wilson Company |year=1996 |isbn=9780824209087}}.</ref> Shamir later moved to [[Białystok]] and studied at a Hebrew high school network.<ref name="Joffe">{{citation |last=Joffe |first=Emmanuel |title=The Man from Ruzhany, Belarus, Served In The Mossad And Was The Prime Minister of Israel |url=http://sources.ruzhany.info/007.html |publisher=Vecherny Minsk October 17, 2005 (Monday). № 235 (10911)}}</ref> As a youth, Yezernitsky joined [[Betar (youth movement)|Betar]], the [[Revisionist Zionism|Revisionist Zionist]] youth movement. Yezernitsky studied law at the [[University of Warsaw]], but cut his studies short in order to emigrate to what was then [[Mandatory Palestine]] in 1935. Shamir was the surname Yitzhak Yezernitsky used on a forged underground identity card.{{sfn|Golan|2011|p=143}} Once in [[British Palestine]], Yitzhak Yezernitsky changed his surname to Shamir. He later said ''Shamir'' means a thorn that stabs and a rock that can cut steel. Shamir initially worked in an accountant's office.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-18661360|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064043/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-18661360|url-status=dead|title=Obituary: former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir|date=June 30, 2012|archivedate=March 4, 2016|publisher=BBC}}</ref><ref name="haaretz">{{Cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/2012-06-30/ty-article/yitzhak-shamir-1915-2012/0000017f-e153-d9aa-afff-f95bfe5a0000|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429182518/http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/former-israeli-prime-minister-yitzhak-shamir-dies-at-96-1.447882|url-status=dead|title=Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir Dies at 96|archivedate=April 29, 2015|via=Haaretz}}</ref>