(Israel Hayom, 15June2017, Hebrew) Amnon Lord - In 2016, when Dore Gold was Director General of Israel's Foreign Ministry, he visited South Africa. There, he met an old Jewish Communist who told a story of when a manhunt was underway for Nelson Mandela, who was hidden in a Jewish home. Here, Mandela read Menachem Begin's book The Revolt. Begin's book was present in the African Liberation Movement against apartheid. Later, Gold managed to arrange a meeting with the South African foreign minister, who is very hostile toward Israel. He told her of the book by one of the leaders of the Jewish liberation movement that inspired the leader of the struggle against apartheid.
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