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Netanyahu says he’s on a ‘historic and spiritual mission,’ also feels a connection to vision of Greater Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells i24 he feels he is on a “historic and spiritual mission,” and that he is “very” attached to the vision of a Greater Israel.
The interviewer Sharon Gal, who was briefly a right-wing member of Knesset, gifts to Netanyahu what he says is an amulet of “a map of the Promised Land.” He jokes that he does not want to further “entangle” Netanyahu in the case against the premier for allegedly receiving jewelry and other luxury goods from several businessmen for him and his wife Sara.
Asked if he feels a connection to “this vision” of a Greater Israel, Netanyahu says: “Very much.”
The amulet itself does not appear on the screen. The term Greater Israel was used after the Six Day War of June 1967 to refer to Israel and the areas it had just conquered — East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights.
The phrase was also used by some early Zionists, including Ze’ev Jabotinsky, forerunner of Netanyahu’s Likud party, to refer to present-day Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, and present-day Jordan.
Gal’s question about a Greater Israel after he asked the premier if he feels he is on a mission on behalf of the Jewish people. Netanyahu answers that he is “on a mission of generations — there are generations of Jews that dreamt of coming here and generations of Jews who will come after us.”
“So if you’re asking if I have a sense of mission, historically and spiritually, the answer is yes,” he says.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveb...al-mission-endorses-vision-of-greater-israel/






