Former aide Nachman Shai recalls Arens’s ‘fascinating and busy’ life

8 January 2019, 2:57 pm

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MK Nachman Shai, the former spokesman of the late defense minister Moshe Arens, eulogizes Arens as a sensitive man who “leaves this world without a single enemy.”

Arens, a three-time defense minister, foreign minister and ambassador to Washington, passed away yesterday at the age of 93. Thousands are attending his funeral underway in the central Israeli town of Savyon.

“Your journey, Misha,” Shai says at the funeral, using Arens’s nickname, “comes to an end today, after 93 fascinating and busy years. In all the great projects in which you were engaged, you always saw the person, the individual who stands in the back, without whom you can’t achieve anything. You leave this world without a single enemy. Thank you.”