Shazar was elected president by the Knesset in 1963 . That same year , he attended the Funeral of John F. Kennedy after his assassination in Dallas . In 1964 , when Pope Paul VI visited Israel , Shazar read to him the verse in Micah stating that though other nations might follow other gods , “ we will walk in the Name of our Lord God forever ” . He was re-elected for a second term in 1968
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Zalman Shazar