Fathom Highlight | A question of leadership: Amir Peretz on Shimon Peres
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28 December
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2016
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Israeli leadership has been vital to the construction of the State of Israel and the defeat of threats to its existence. This week’s Highlight is an assessment of Shimon Peres by MK Amir Peretz. He focuses on two qualities: mamlakhtiyut (statesmanship) and the pursuit of peace. In addition, the Highlight features five archive pieces on Israeli leaders (Ben-Gurion, Begin, Rabin, Sharon, and Netanyahu) and how each shaped the state.
Our voice of the week is of a panel discussion organised by the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings on ‘The tribes of Israel: Secularism, religion, and the state’. Leon Wieseltier moderates Isaiah Berlin, MK Ksenia Svetlova, Noah Efron, Rabbi Dov Lipman and Elana Stein Hain, 13 December 2016.
Our image of the week is Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter attending a protest in Jerusalem over a battle on control of the synagogue in Arad, and against the secular mayor Nissam Ben Hamo, 22 December 2016.
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Mamlakhtiyut, peace and the dangerous rise of populism: In memory of Shimon Peres
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Amir Peretz
| December 28, 2016
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