(Ynet News) Ehud Olmert - Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir did not anticipate a political career. He was never involved in any sort of maneuvering that characterizes party politics, and felt quite uncomfortable in this environment. The toughness and self-control he demonstrated during times in which others panicked never ceased to amaze me. Shamir told me that when his father was warned in Poland that the extermination of all the Jews - himself included - was imminent, he replied: "I have a son in the Land of Israel, and he will exact my revenge on them." He was made of steel, determined and decisive; modest but proud of his Jewish heritage and, most of all, completely dedicated to the mission entrusted to him by his father, who died knowing that his son Yitzhak Shamir (Jeziernicky) would never let the Jewish nation suffer the same fate as his parents and many of his relatives did. The writer is a former prime minister of Israel.
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