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Article: Obituary: Rabbi Eliezer Shach
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2001
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IT MAY seem exotic to include Rabbi Eliezer Shach in the pantheon
of Israel's founding fathers. He was inimical to Zionism throughout
his life. Yet when history is written with the benefit of distance,
Shach will take his place alongside David Ben- Gurion, Menachem Begin
and Moshe Dayan, leaders who moulded the Zionist state in its
formative years. More than any other religious figure, he stamped his
imprint on the politics and society of Israel.
He was something of a late bloomer, growing to national prominence
in his seventies. Before that, he was known only within the ultra-
Orthodox world, the world of the yeshivas or Talmudic academies,
where pious young men conduct 2,000-year-old ...
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