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"Who is the most important historical figure in the history of Zionism? I would say Menachem Begin."
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On a summer Sabbath in 1913, in the Polish town of Brisk (otherwise known as Brest-Litovsk, in Yiddish, as Brisk) a son was born to Ze’ev Dov and Chasia Begin. It was four days after Tisha B’Av, the annual fast day mourning the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem and the exiles that followed them, on the Sabbath known as Shabbat Nachamu, the Sabbath of Comfort.
So the Begins named their son Menachem, “The Comforter.”
Though those words are the opening of my biography of Begin, today we hear from the…
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