PM Netanyahu’s Remarks for Izraeli Book Week
Following are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks on the occasion of Hebrew Book Week<en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Book_Week>:
„Recently, I found myself rereading my late father’s book The Founding Fathers of Zionism<www.gefenpublishing.com/product.asp?productid=1018>, which takes me back to the foundations of the movement that established the State of Israel
– five giants whom every boy and girl in Israel should know because we all stand on their shoulders.
Everything that I read here is being implemented today. What has yet to be implemented, that is what I am reading about.
When I was a boy, I read, and afterwards, when I was a young man, I read more, and as an adult, I read even more. I think that reading and writing books are the foundations of culture. We are „the People of the Book.” I know that we are also the people of the Internet, but at the heart of it, we are the People of the Book.
I would like to encourage all of you to read, for both enjoyment and education. Both characterize our people and will continue to do so.