Netanyahu Talks About the Time He Met the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Tell me about your meeting with the Lubicher Rebe. >> It was on Simchhatra, I believe, in the year 1984, I think. And I was serving then as Israel's ambassador to the UN. So I said to him, uh uh Rebe, I came to see you. Then he looks at me like this and says, "Just to see, not to talk." And we started a conversation. It lasted 40 minutes. I'll tell you what happened. I suddenly hear, you know, 5 minutes pass, then everything's fine. 10 minutes pass, I hear a murmur from the crowd. The crowd. I'm taking the rebi away from them. 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes. In the end, he turned around and I'll tell you in a moment what he said to me. I'm getting off the stage and the Rebi comes down with the Torah scrolls and they're dancing in the center of the world with this sort of glorious light pouring over them. I think I was very moved. Now, what did he say to me? He said to me, "You are going now to the house of eternal lies." That's what he called the UN. And remember that you are entering a world that is entirely darkness. And remember that even in the darkest world, if you light one candle of truth, that truth will be seen from afar. And I said to him, "No, I intend to return and run for a seat in the "Yes." So he said, "But there is a great work to be done here." And I said to him, "There, too." And then he says to me, well then go and uh you will have great support from heaven. And he said, but you will have to contend more or less what he said. Contend with 119. You won't give me even one. But uh there are days when I think he was right and he was right about many things.