Yaakov Sharett, the son of one of Israel's founding fathers, says “the State of Israel and the Zionist enterprise were born in sin,” and urges Jews to migrate from Israel
“The State of Israel and the Zionist enterprise were born in sin,” Yaakov Sharett, the son of Moshe Sharett who was Israel's first foreign minister and second prime minister,Sharett, 95, heavily critcised Israel’s state mentality and opposes aliyah, the migration of Jews to Israel and occupied Palestinian territories, and called for emigration from Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, left, signs a document in Tel Aviv, Palestine, proclaiming the new Jewish State of Israel in Tel Aviv at midnight on May 14, 1948. Witnessing the ceremony at right is Israel's first Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, Zionist pioneer and leader in the establishment of the state of Israel. The man at center is not identified.
Sharett said the conflict was created when Zionism called on Jews to move to Israel and establish a sovereign state. In the 1960s, he went to the Soviet Union to work for the Israeli Embassy in Moscow and founded and led, Israel's identity-building program for soldiers who are immigrants but feel disconnected from their Jewish roots.
He was “caught while spying, touring various parts of the Soviet Union to establish espionage ties and distributing Zionist anti-Soviet illegal literature,” at the time, Soviet media reported.
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