ISRAEL THE MAN WITHOUT ENEMIES TO THE CEREMONIAL BLARE OF A RAM'S 
HORN, ISRAEL'S THIRD PRESIDENT WAS SWORN INTO OFFICE LAST WEEK . 
HE WAS SCHNEOR ZALMAN SHAZAR, 73, A BALDING, BESPECTACLED SCHOLAR OF 
JEWISH HISTORY . THE COUNTRY'S FIRST MINISTER OF EDUCATION, HE WAS 
ELECTED BY THE KNESSET TO FILL THE VACANCY CAUSED BY THE 
DEATH OF IZHAK BEN-ZVI LAST MONTH . RUSSIAN-BORN SHAZAR EMIGRATED TO 
PALESTINE VIA CENTRAL EUROPE DURING THE '20S, WAS HAND-PICKED FOR THE 
JOB BY AN OLD POLITICAL CRONY, PREMIER DAVID BEN-GURION . SHAZAR 
HAS ANOTHER IMPORTANT QUALIFICATION . AS BEN-GURION PUTS IT, HE IS 
" A MAN WITHOUT ENEMIES . " NORMALLY SOFT-SPOKEN, SHAZAR IS 
AN IMPASSIONED, SKILLFUL ORATOR WHEN HE GETS ONTO A SPEAKER'S PLATFORM 
. DURING LAST MONTH'S COMMEMORATION OF THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING, SHAZAR 
BROUGHT THE AUDIENCE TO TEARS SIMPLY BY REPEATING THE WORD " 
WARSAW " IN HUSHED TONES BEFORE BEGINNING HIS ADDRESS ; ON 
ANOTHER OCCASION HE WAS SO CARRIED AWAY BY HIS OWN ORATORY 
THAT HE FELL OFF THE STAGE AND HAD TO BE TAKEN 
TO THE HOSPITAL FOR A BADLY SPRAINED LEG . SHAZAR IS 
ALSO NOTORIOUSLY ABSENT-MINDED . YEARS AGO IN POLAND, THE STORY GOES, 
HE BOARDED A TRAIN ONLY TO FIND THAT HE HAD LOST 
HIS RAIL TICKET . ASSURED BY THE CONDUCTOR THAT HE COULD 
BUY ANOTHER, SHAZAR REPLIED : " I KNOW, BUT IF I 
DON'T FIND THE TICKET I WON'T KNOW WHERE I'M GOING . 
/ SHAZAR'S ORIGINAL SURNAME WAS RUBASHOV, BUT LIKE MANY VETERAN ZIONISTS, 
HE HEBRAIZED HIS NAME . DAVID GREEN BECAME DAVID BEN-GURION ; 
ISAAC SHIMSHELEVITZ BECAME IZHAK BEN-ZVI . SCHNEOR ZALMAN RUBASHOV BECAME SHAZAR 
BY COMBINING THE INITIALS OF HIS FIRST, MIDDLE AND LAST NAMES 
. AN EXCEPTION TO THE COMMON PRACTICE : ISRAEL'S FIRST PRESIDENT, 
WHO REMAINED CHAIM WEIZMANN . 