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POLITICIAN

Mordechai Gur

1930 - 1995

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Mordechai "Motta" Gur (Hebrew: מרדכי "מוטה" גור; May 6, 1930 – July 16, 1995) was an Israeli politician and the 10th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. During the Six-Day War (1967), he commanded the brigade that penetrated the Old City of Jerusalem and broadcast the famous words, "The Temple Mount is in our hands!" (Hebrew: הר הבית בידינו, Har HaBayit B'Yadeinu). As Chief of Staff, he had responsibility for planning and executing Operation Entebbe (1976) to free Jewish hostages in Uganda. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mordechai Gur has received more than 198,913 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Mordechai Gur is the 11,177th most popular politician (down from 9,542nd in 2019), the 217th most popular biography from Israel (down from 199th in 2019) and the 81st most popular Israeli Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mordechai Gur ranks 11,177 out of 15,577. Before him are Xenophon Zolotas, Robert Smith, Phạm Minh Chính, Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and Margaret of Bourbon, Queen of Navarre. After him are Tosiwo Nakayama, Amenirdis I, Edzard I, Count of East Frisia, Gediminas Kirkilas, Andrey Osterman, and Ignacio Comonfort.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Mordechai Gur ranks 263. Before him are Chuck Daly, Naomi Shemer, Tadao Kobayashi, Tommy Flanagan, Carmen Sevilla, and Antonio Saura. After him are Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, Philip Bosco, Jesús Garay, Guy Béart, and Mildred Dresselhaus. Among people deceased in 1995, Mordechai Gur ranks 147. Before him are Fred West, Masashi Watanabe, Karel Píč, Lev Polugaevsky, Jack Clayton, and Georges Candilis. After him are Oles Honchar, Ioannis Alevras, Kukrit Pramoj, Jesús Garay, Pál Kovács, and Alexander Kaidanovsky.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Mordechai Gur ranks 217 out of 430. Before him are Moshe Ya'alon (1950), Emile Habibi (1922), Yvan Attal (1965), Dalia Itzik (1952), Yigal Amir (1970), and Naomi Shemer (1930). After him are Judea Pearl (1936), Arik Einstein (1939), Dan Halutz (1948), Gali Atari (1953), Yakir Aharonov (1932), and Izhar Cohen (1951).

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Among POLITICIANS In Israel

Among politicians born in Israel, Mordechai Gur ranks 81. Before him are Ahmed Jibril (1938), Yair Lapid (1963), Shulamit Aloni (1928), Reuven Shiloah (1909), Moshe Ya'alon (1950), and Dalia Itzik (1952). After him are Gabi Ashkenazi (1954), Suha Arafat (1963), Joan of Acre (1272), Esther Hayut (1953), Yossi Beilin (1948), and Yossi Sarid (1940).

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