Yitzhak Shamir wurde am 22 Oktober 1915 in Ruzhany, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire [ora Brest Oblast, Belarus] geboren. Er war mit Shulamit Levy verheiratet. Er starb am 30 Juni 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.