Jerusalem50 - Naftali Bennett

brothers and sisters Shalom so I'm a minister of it my name's left a Lebanon Minister of Education and minister of diaspora affairs now since you are from the Diaspora technically I'm your minister nice to meet you we're doing here something that's never been done before the hush bah the Pledge of Allegiance of Jews to the Jewish nation this is the first time ever we're making history right now 50 years ago to this day Israeli fighters paratroopers freed hama by Temple Mount and the Kotel amaba'ti how many of you I want anyone who was here that day to raise your hand just so I see it so I want everyone to raise your hand you were here everyone raise your hands Telemundo yep because every one of you was here because every Jew was here that day but every Jew is here also 3,800 years ago I see over there an old man with his boy his name is Avram Abraham they're walking towards Allah meliha Abraham's walking with his son Isaac he took every one of you was there fast forward eight hundred years I see a platoon of fighters of King David that are conquering Jerusalem and setting yerushalaim Jerusalem as our capital fast forward another thousand years I see a very bad picture becoming - the second temple is on fire the Romans captured Jerusalem destroyed our second temple right up there and expelled all the Jews we had a Jewish state right here all across Israel two thousand years ago with an education ministry transportation ministry we had it all and then we were thrown away thrown out to Morocco to Germany to Spain to Iran Iraq United States of America fast forward during those 2000 years every day our direct ancestors my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather and yours also they said three times a day they pray to you shall I'm in fact every Jewish marriage at the you know very most romantic point the hot on the groom says to the Colada bride Emma Skye Katyusha lionfish Kamini if I forget Jerusalem let me forget my right hand only we do it I can't recall French people saying if I forget thy Paris forget my right hand fast-forward to 1948 our fighters are fighting but we only managed to maintain West Jerusalem where the Knesset is and all of that we lose the Kokila Madhavi and then for 19 years we pray and hope that one day maybe a hundred years from now we'll get back and then fast forward the 1967 fifty years ago now Jerusalem is reunited and like a electric current across the world all the Jews suddenly wake up my own parents were born and raised in San Francisco they were totally unconnected to Judaism they didn't know anything about Israel not much about Judaism their name were Jim may rest in peace and Myrna Bennett suddenly they were glued to the radio because like everyone they understood that the new Jewish state in 1967 was just 19 years old was about to be wiped out and they were listening and suddenly this tiny Jewish nation wins and releases and reunites Jerusalem so they make aliyah and now fast forward a thousand years and five thousand years and ten thousand years Yahoo Shalom is not only our heritage it's our destiny were Jews not only because we were born to be Jewish because today right now we're deciding again and again to be Jewish which means to do good to fix the world the takeno l'm so yeah dude is not just being born Jewish well that's what it is it's also an active decision to be Jewish so I want to congratulate all of you in just two minutes you're going to pledge allegiance to the alma you will be to the Jewish people and just tell you whatever happens at any time LT style is your home and you shall I'm is your capital we love you - Dada you [Applause]