PM Netanyahu’s Remarks for Izraeli Book Week

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&gt;:

„Recently, I found myself rereading my late father’s book The Founding Fathers of Zionism<www.gefenpublishing.com/product.asp?productid=1018&gt;, 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.