Jerusalem – Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Henry Kissinger Among Those Awarded Israel’s Presidential Medal

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    Israeli president Shimon Peres announced the winners of the special "president award" today, and is seen here with one of them; Itzhak Navon. Feb 9 2012. Photo by Uri Lenz/Flash90 Jerusalem – Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger was among the six recipients of Israel’s first-ever President’s Prize, announced on Thursday at the home of President Shimon Peres.

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    The prize is awarded to remarkable individuals and organizations that contributed to Israeli society and its standing in the world.

    The other prize recipients included:

    -Indian-born Zubin Mehta, music director for life at the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra;
    -Attorney Uri Slonim, who represented the government in negotiations to release captive IDF soldiers;
    -Judy Feld Carr, who masterminded an international smuggling operation to release trapped Syrian Jews;
    -The Rashi Foundation, which serves underprivileged youth in Israel’s periphery, and
    -Rabbi Adin Even Yisrael Steinsaltz, a Talmudic philosopher and scholar


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    sasregener
    sasregener
    12 years ago

    kissinger? read your history. he did so much damage to israel during the yom kippur war. he advised nixon not tpo hbelp with weapons . it was only nixon who helped. kissinger is your classic self hating jew.

    toolee
    toolee
    12 years ago

    What a shame, how quickly history is forgotten.
    seems like someone must need a favor

    Anon Ibid Opcit
    Anon Ibid Opcit
    12 years ago

    Kissinger is one of the biggest un-hanged war criminals of the 20th century. From Laos to Cyprus to Chile if there was an atrocity he was there. He was also no friend of Israel. During the Yom Kippur War he tried to keep Nixon from providing arms to an Israel under attack.

    Longwave
    Longwave
    12 years ago

    I agree with #1 . Kissinger did great damage to Jews and Israel – just like Peres, who does not know when to keep quiet. Peres pushed Rabin to sign the first treaties with Arafat and see where that got both Rabin (assasinated) and Israel (weakened and threatened)

    12 years ago

    well peres are kissinger are equals both did harm for israel..

    12 years ago

    Rather than debating Kissenger’s yichus, we should also say kol hakovod to Rav Steinsaltz, shlita, who has been the most powerful single force in the modern era for making the gemorah accessible to most yidden and who has brought them to limud torah. He is a rav who many don’t realize was born into a secular family and evolved into one of the gadolei torah alive today. May he live and prosper for many more years as he opens new doors to torah learning for klal yisroel.

    lazerx
    lazerx
    12 years ago

    Kissinger? what an outrage! Some one has lost touch with reality! A Jewish Jew hater!

    czyrankevic
    czyrankevic
    12 years ago

    5 does not know what he is talking about besides marrying a goite he was against helping israel if not for the meshumed brown who was defense sec and the top general of nato who emptiedd europe of the most modern tanks and trained israeli forces to use it golda meir would have committed suicide.

    Madasablackhatter
    Madasablackhatter
    12 years ago

    I happen to agree with you (especially regarding yidden in Israel) but hesitate to praise anyone on this blog because it seems to encourage–indeed, guarantees– lashon hara will follow. See Chafetz Chaim 9:1

    12 years ago

    I think that given both their histories, Peres and Kissinger are a perfect couple. Only that we alerady have open record on Kissinger whereas, unfortunately we will have to wait, perhaps, decades until the truth about Peres comes out. For the meanwhile he plays the peace-loving doddering old grandfather part quite well.

    AEANDERSON
    AEANDERSON
    12 years ago

    Kissinger (and Nixon) opened the tsinoros of weaponry and capital to flow to the Jewish state at a critical juncture in her history, perhaps saving Israel from being driven into the sea by invading Arab hordes.

    As a US official, his allegiance was clearly to the United States, and he should not be faulted for faithfully exercising his office(s) in that regard.

    Also, at time when Jews have risen to the heights of all professions, it is easy to forget that Kissinger’s ascent, both as Nixon’s foreign policy advisor, and as secretary of state, was a major vicarious accomplishment for Jews the world over.

    In my own childhood, I can remember my elders’ fascination with and admiration for two Jewish personages: Leonard Bernstein and Henry Kissinger.

    zmendel
    zmendel
    12 years ago

    Its outrageous gesture to hand Kissinger a self hating Jew Medal of Honor.Unless Shimon Peres knows something we don’t.

    czyrankevic
    czyrankevic
    12 years ago

    i think that i am olderthen#21 here are the facts haig sent the modern weaponary with with the permission and not the insistance of def sec brown of you probably never heard of {by the way he was a meshumod} and he sent it as soon as as avast amount of tanks were destroyed if not for that the end would have been different chas vechulile where did you get your facts

    12 years ago

    From Jason Maoz in The Jewish Press two years ago:
    Nixon implemented a transfer of arms that over a four-week period involved hundreds of jumbo U.S. military aircraft delivering more than 22,000 tons of armaments.
    “Both Kissinger and Nixon wanted to do [the airlift],” said former CIA deputy director Vernon Walters, “but Nixon gave it the greater sense of urgency. He said, ‘You get the stuff to Israel. Now. Now.'”
    “It was Nixon who did it,” recalled Nixon’s acting special counsel, Leonard Garment. “I was there. As [bureaucratic bickering between the State and Defense departments] was going back and forth, Nixon said, ‘this is insane. . . . ‘ He just ordered Kissinger, “Get your [expletive] out of here and tell those people to move.’ “
    Alexander Haig, in his memoir Inner Circles, wrote that Nixon, frustrated with the initial delays in implementing the airlift, summoned Kissinger and Schlesinger to the Oval Office on October 12 and “banished all excuses.”
    The president asked Kissinger for a precise accounting of Israel’s military needs, and Kissinger proceeded to read aloud from an itemized list.
    “Double it,” Nixon ordered. “Now get the hell out of here and get the job done.”