Benjamin Netanyahu’s Finest Hour

Israel, under attack on five flanks, is not out of danger by any means, but all the greater the profile in courage its leaders are giving the world.

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Prime Minister Netanyahu at the Capitol on July 24, 2024. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images

How we wish Prime Minister Netanyahu’s father were alive to hear his son address the United Nations later this week. We once hosted a small dinner for the father, Benzion Netanyahu, who — this was in the late 1990s — was in New York to promote his book on the Spanish Inquisition. He shocked us at the time by saying he feared his son, then in his first term as premier, was too weak to lead the Jewish state in its seasons of danger.

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