Benjamin Netanyahu’s Finest Hour

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.