Netanyahu on The Jewish People's Inheritance and the Bible

Tanakh Study Circle Held at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on the Eve of Sukkot

(Communicated by Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, this evening (Tuesday 17 September 2013), at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, held an additional meeting of the renewed Tanakh Study Circle. Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef  and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau attended the circle, which is named after Sara Netanyahu's late father, Shmuel Ben-Artzi.
This is the fourth meeting of the Circle, which was renewed in May 2012. The Tanakh Study Circle is a tradition from the days of former prime ministers David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin and is held in cooperation with the Menachem Begin Heritage Center.
This evening's session focused on the last weekly portion of the Book of Deuteronomy, 33:1-34:12.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said, "I would like to open the discussion with Deuteronomy 34:1-6. Moses our Teacher could not enter the Promised Land and we are here in his merit and in the merit of the struggle of our people to be here, the inheritance of our ancestors, and we welcome every moment. It is a very great privilege to read this great book and know that we are realizing what the Almighty commanded our people. The fact that this is our inheritance and we are here, reading these words today, and knowing that we will remain here forever – thus we are fulfilling the precept."

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