The Rebbe & Israel

Jerry Dantzic photographs former Israeli president Zalman Shazar in an audience with the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of righteous memory and later joining a Chassidic gathering with the Rebbe.

It was a politically chaotic time in Israel. Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, a member of the Labor Party, resigned, bringing on new general elections. The elections brought dramatic change to the small country. On May 17, 1977, the right-wing Likud Party came to power, ending a twenty-nine year period in which the Left had governed Israel.

It was 1966, and Zalman Shazar was on his first visit to the United States as the President of Israel. All the ceremonial events and official visits would be at the Manhattan hotel where the President was staying. Except for one...

As millions prayed in synagogues, the Egyptian and Syrian armies surprised the Israelis with attacks on two fronts. But one person in Brooklyn was preparing for months already...

Despite the tremendous losses, the Rebbe often pointed out the great miracles that G‑d had performed.

A presentation of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's views on the Jewish people's connection with the Holy Land, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the so-called "Land for Peace" issue

A special burden and privilege rests upon Israel's citizens and its government: to preserve the Jewish integrity of the country

In an interview, the author of the new volume The Prime Ministers discusses his impressions on the Rebbe’s approach to the issues that faced the Land of Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describes his first visit to Lubavitch World Headquarters and his meeting with the Rebbe.

After the White House talks, I returned to New York to call upon the Rebbe. My presentation, his interrogation, and his further clarification took close to three hours. By the time we finished it was nearly two in the morning.

A warm relationship between the Rebbe and former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

"In these days of confusion the Rebbe's statesmanship and strategic vision are a wellspring of living waters."

Yitzhak Rabin was a straight-as-a-die agnostic, and shy to a fault. So, when on a spring day in 1972 he was kept waiting at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for his appointment with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, he became fidgety...

I felt that the Rebbe was not only someone I could rely on for spiritual guidance, but also someone I could fully trust with Israeli security concerns. Considering my position at the time, that was not something I could take lightly.

The Rebbe's encounter with a group of disabled Israeli war heroes

"Never has there been an opportunity such as this one... If we will do our job and tell the world the truth, we can bring the Redemption"

I shall never know whether it was only because I was tired that I had the temerity to say what I really felt or whether I would have said it anyway...

We felt that the time had come to evacuate the Jewish community of Tunisia to Israel...

The year was 1979. The Iranian revolution had just taken place, Ayatollah Khomeini had seized power, and a major international crisis was unfolding.

After having met a believer you are no longer the same. Though you may not have accepted his faith, you have nevertheless been embraced by it. For the true believer believes in you as well

A 40-year historical timeline of the Rebbe’s Tefillin Campaign.

The inside story of the Rebbe’s involvement in Israel’s security, as told by its defense and government leaders.

Yitzchak Rabin was Prime Minister of Israel, and served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States in the early 1970s. In 1972, he was sent to convey Israel’s blessings to the Rebbe in honor of his 70th birthday.

“The Guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps” – at all times Jews are protected by G-d. But we are commanded to also take part in our own security.

A brief history of the Six-Day War and the Rebbe’s call for all Jewish men, particularly soldiers in the IDF, to don tefillin as a special merit for added security.

Israel is one of the surest places on the globe. To invest money in Israel, that is the surest bank that exists in our time.