Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem met with Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries from Israel and around the world and told them to never surrender in the fight for Israel.
The meeting came to mark the 30th anniversary of the passing of the last Lubavitcher Rebbe, who began the tradition of sending his people around the world to provide Jewish religious services everywhere.
They can, however, also serve as emissaries for the State of Israel as well and Netaanyahu stressed this point telling them, “We’re fighting back in Gaza, we’re fighting back in Lebanon, we’re fighting back in other parts of the Middle East. But we also have to fight the battle for public opinion, for justice and for our own solidarity, our own solidarity with our people who are beleaguered.”
“The most important message I have for you,” he added “is don’t bend, don’t cower, don’t surrender, not to these anti-Semitic lies, not to the fear, not to the intimidation. You are our ambassadors in the spirit of the Rebbe. This is what the Rebbe told me. He said: ‘You are going to be the ambassador of the Jewish people in the Hall of Darkness,’ as he called the UN. He said, light a candle of truth. Stand up against our enemies and for our people and for our land.