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Israel365 May 7, 2026

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz

Rabbi Lavie writes that the current war has created a shift in Israel’s essential role, changing it from a post-Holocaust safe-haven and moving it towards its sacred purpose as a moral and spiritual leader of the nations.

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When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched Operation Sha’agat HaAri,  “The Lion’s Roar”, against Iran, he broke with every standard script Israel has used to explain itself to the world for the past seventy years. 

He did not merely promise to eliminate the nuclear threat hanging over Israeli cities. He declared, before a watching world: “We will create conditions that will allow the brave Iranian people to throw off the yoke of this murderous regime.” 

Then he added four words that reverberated far beyond any military briefing room: “This is a campaign for humanity.”

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