Napoleon Bonaparte Praised the Jewish People
Government Press Office 21.07.2021
On one of his travels across Europe, the great French leader, Napoleon Bonaparte, led his troops through a small Jewish town. He passed by a synagogue where everyone was sitting on the floor crying and reading little books by the light of small candles.
Napoleon asked his aide, “What is this?” He was told that the Jewish people are mourning the destruction of the Temple (twice). “How long ago was that?” he inquired, “Two thousand years” was the answer.
Napoleon, astonished, was then quoted saying: " A nation that cries and fasts for 2,000 years for their land and the Temple will surely be rewarded with both land and the Temple."
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