including hardline Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, would walk out of the chamber in protest. His rhetoric was so extreme that his party was banned, declared racist even by his own nationalist allies.

When he met Yitzhak Shamir, the Israeli prime minister ahead of the first Gulf War in 1991, he said, “Men kent reden Yiddish,” we can speak in Yiddish, to Shamir’s surprise. At least twice ...

The Bush presidency was marked by tensions both with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and the American Jewish leadership. In 1991, Bush lashed out at pro-Israel activists who had flooded ...