Weizmann israel president speech

By submitting the above I agree to the privacy policy and terms of use of JTA. He was the ultimate Israeli highflier, literally as well as metaphorically, shepherding and shaping the Jewish state through war and peace with a singular, sometimes mordant charm.

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And though Ezer Weizman, who died Sunday at 80, ended his public career tainted by scandal, to many Israelis he typified a national ideal. Weizman was buried later Tuesday. Weizman grew up in a multilingual home — Yiddish, Russian, Arabic, English and Hebrew all could be heard there — and spent time studying in London, where his sister lived.

But Weizman always remained the scrappy sabra, indifferent to — and sometimes clearly delighting in — the offense his wit could cause among feminists, gays and the religious. Weizman quit parliamentary politics inshortly after his son and daughter-in-law were killed in a car crash.

Following the Oslo peace accords, Weizman harangued Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for being too quick to negotiate with the Palestinians, and later criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for being too slow.

Weizmann israel president speech