Epstein Secrets

l financial meltdown of 2008 far better than the rich countries of Europe and North America, but growt

omats. The pretext was flimsy as usual: an anti-PLO terrorist outfit had tried to assassinate the Israeli ambassador in London. When Prime Minister Menachem Begin was told by his Mossad chief that the assassins were enemies of the PLO, Begin famously answered: "For me, they are all PLO!" As a matter of fact,

y miracle. Alternatively, they were hoping for a rich beneficiary who would be willing to give Israel

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

and right. Jews and Arabs. Secular and religious. Rich and poor. Center and periphery. Old and new. This

, 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

and right. Jews and Arabs. Secular and religious. Rich and poor. Center and periphery. Old and new. This

, 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