Epstein Secrets

Whether and in what form the Jewish state should accept Germany's help was a matter of controversy for the Israeli public. The later Prime Minister Menachem Begin, for example, who had lost much of his family in the Holocaust, could only see Germany as the "land of the murderers." To this day, financial assis

orrow," as David Ben-Gurion, the founder of the State of Israel, once said. "We shall never again be led as lambs to the slaughter," was the lesson Ben-Gurion and others drew from Auschwitz. Armed with nuclear weapons, the submarines are a signal to any enemy that the Jewish state itself would not be tota

ually) told me that when he was young, he visited Ben Gurion's home a few times. In one of their conversations,

, the doubts, the risks. many assumed we would fail. He talked about the opportunity and recognizing it. And the deed. • Like Ben Gurion at the time, Menachem Begin - with Egypt, and Rabin - in the peace treaty with Jordan, and later Peres - with the first steps towards the Palestinians, took huge national, diplo

ually) told me that when he was young, he visited Ben Gurion's home a few times. In one of their conversations,

, the doubts, the risks. many assumed we would fail. He talked about the opportunity and recognizing it. And the deed. • Like Ben Gurion at the time, Menachem Begin - with Egypt, and Rabin - in the peace treaty with Jordan, and later Peres - with the first steps towards the Palestinians, took huge national, diplo