Why Israel matters: A conversation about the National Library of Israel with Rachel Ukeles
No one ever asks, "Why should India exist?" Or Albania. Or the United States. Or any country in the world.
Except for one country: Israel.
So, let me make this simple — and overly simplistic. Why does Israel exist? Here are my two R's of Israel.
To rescue Jews who are persecuted. To save Jews from Jew-hatred. That was the wake-up call that Viennese journalist Theodor Herzl experienced during the trial of Alfred Dreyfus for treason in France in the early 1890s. He saw the mobs in the streets calling for death to the Jews. It caused him to sing a much earlier version of The Animals' classic…
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