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the first sitting American president ever to attend a Jewish High Holiday service. I

” and wishing the Jewish people a “Shana

the authenticity of the Jewish people. Israeli

during the week of the Jewish New Year. I invited the then-president

…eation of new settlements, since there had been almost none in recent years. It was the expansion of existing ones. The Jewish population on the West Bank had been about 190,000 when I became Prime Minister. In the decade since then, it had grown to 315,000 — more than half-a- mi...

…ther victims have responded by non-peaceful means—for example, the continuing violence of some Armenians against Turks. Jewish survivors have not. There has been no terrorism against innocent Germans—or even guilty Germans who live in luxury and sometimes in honor. For this alone...

… family background. Superficially, I am very different from my parents and grandparents, who lived insular lives in the Jewish shteles of Galicia, Poland, the Lower East side of Manhattan, and the Williamberg, Crown Heights and Boro Park Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods (also “shtet...

… the Nazis’ “selection” process in the Holocaust, the terrorists separated all the passengers with Israeli passports or Jewish names. They let the rest of them go, and allowed them to board a special Air France flight back to Paris. We immediately dispatched Amiram Levin to debri...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 which refused accept women for many years, or Jewish clubs, which limit their memberships to my own co-religionists. (More on this later.) Judge Bazelon played hard and worked even harder. For his law clerks it was all work, no play. We had to be in the office...

…ility, and certainly no hatred, toward us in the village. The people seemed warm, and benignly indifferent to the dozen Jewish toddlers and their metapelet. My own attitude to Wadi Khawaret was of benign curiosity. I did not imagine that within a couple of years we would be on op...

…eft when Justice Frankfurter, who had suffered a stroke, retired. Bazelon was on the short list to fill the so- called "Jewish seat" on the Supreme Court. So if Judge Bazelon were to be promoted to the Supreme Court, he might take his law clerk with him. In the end, Judge Bazelo...

…ed that this first Arab-Israeli war was the start of an essential tension in my country’s life, and my own: between the Jewish ethical ideals at the core of Zionism and the reality of our having to fight, and sometimes even kill, in order to secure, establish and safeguard our st...

…ning. We had been in the US for barely six weeks. It was the Sixth of October 1973: Yom Kippur, the holiest date on the Jewish calendar. I was still a bit groggy from the night before. We had been out at a get-to-know-you event for some of the several dozen Israelis, and several...

…cture of Israel, was rooted in finding a way to supplant not just the life, but the way of thinking, which hard-pressed Jewish communities had internalised over centuries in the diaspora: in Hebrew, the galut. We would instead take control of our own destiny, building and develop...

…tional aspirations, the main impulse was my belief that such a compromise was profoundly in the interest of Israel: the Jewish state whose birth I witnessed, whose existence I had spent decades defending on the battlefield and which I was ultimately elected to lead. Zionism, the...