This essay by Meir Soloveichik is, in part, a commentary on a speech that Menachem Begin gave in 1972. Mosaic published the first English translation of the speech in May 2020.
More about: Israel & Zionism, Jerusalem, Menachem Begin
What Begin’s 1972 elegy for the diaspora reveals about a worldview unique among Israel’s founders.
Menachem Begin lighting Hanukkah candles in St John’s Wood Synagogue, London on December 1, 1977. Saar Yaacov/Government Press Office.
This essay by Meir Soloveichik is, in part, a commentary on a speech that Menachem Begin gave in 1972. Mosaic published the first English translation of the speech in May 2020.
More about: Israel & Zionism, Jerusalem, Menachem Begin
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