# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yitzhak-arad
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:49:50.857Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yitzhak-arad"
name: "Yitzhak Arad"
slug: "yitzhak-arad"
description: "Yitzhak Arad was an Israeli historian, author, IDF brigadier general and Soviet partisan. He also served as Yad Vashem's director from 1972 to 1993, and specialised in the history of the Holocaust."
tagline: "Israeli historian, retired IDF brigadier general and a former Soviet partisan who has served as director of Yad Vashem from 1972 to 1993"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yitshak_arad_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-11-11"
deathDate: "2021-05-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.821428571428571
  historical:           16.2441
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump