To Ignite the Soul
Yitzhak Rabin was a straight-as-a-die agnostic, and shy to a fault. So, when on a spring day in 1972 he was kept waiting at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for his appointment with the...
View ArticleThe Rebbe as Statesman - An Ambassador Recalls the Rebbe
Israeli diplomat Yehuda Avner speaks at the concluding banquet of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries in New York, addressing a series of encounters he had with the Rebbe, Rabbi...
View ArticleAmbassador Yehuda Avner
A keynote address by Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Avner at an evening dedicated to the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Detroit, Michigan – June 16, 2009).
View ArticleDissecting Begin’s Meeting with Carter - Begin’s Aide Briefs the Rebbe
After the White House talks, I returned to New York to call upon the Rebbe. My presentation, his interrogation, and his further clarification took close to three hours. By the time we finished it was...
View ArticleThe String and the Flame
I shall never know whether it was only because I was tired that I had the temerity to say what I really felt or whether I would have said it anyway...
View ArticleHanding the Match
Yehuda Avner served on the personal staff of five Israeli Prime Ministers. In 1977, after meeting with President Carter at Camp David, Menachem Begin sent him to report to the Rebbe.
View ArticleThe Flashpoint
In 1972, Yehuda Avner was a senior diplomat at the Israeli Embassy in Washington.
View ArticleA Symbiotic People
Yitzchak Rabin served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States from 1968 to 1973. In 1972, Ambassador Yehuda Avner accompanied Rabin to pay Israel’s respects to the Rebbe in honor of his 70th birthday.
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