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Thursday, March 21, 2013
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, March 21, 2013
‘You, the young people of Israel, must now claim its future’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on Google“This should be a hub for thriving regional trade and an engine for opportunity,” he says of Israel.
He says that tomorrow he’ll visit the grave of Theodor Herzl, and that of Yitzhak Rabin. He’ll also be at Yad Vashem.
“We bear all that history on our shoulders. … Today, as we face the twilight of Israel’s founding generation, you, the young people of Israel, must now claim its future.”
He says he has been inspired by the Jewish concept of “Tikkun Olam.”
“That’s the task of all of us. May God bless you, may God bless Israel. May God bless the United States of America,” he says, adding “Toda raba” — Hebrew for “Thank you very much” — before the crowd gives him a standing ovation and the speech ends.
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