Mandela and Israel

06.12.2013                      03.Tewet.5774

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Mandela and Israel

The iconic South African leader had an ambivalent relationship with the Jewish state.

As I introduced myself, feeling the strength in his large hand, he smiled and said, “Shalom!” I was dumbstruck by the powerful presence of Nelson Mandela, the legendary leader of the country in which I had grown up, the man credited with ending the brutal apartheid regime….