that young Jews from all over the world consider a source of pride, inspiration — and even a worthy place to live in. ¢ The vision of a "model society" will not materialize unless we gather our mental strength and political will, despite the pain and the differences in our positions — and together embrace the "two-state solution under a regional agreement" — which even if it delays — is the only appropriate and feasible solution, the only realistic and proper goal for Zionism in this complex world of the 21* century. ¢ A friend (from the Likud, actually) told me that when he was young, he visited Ben Gurion's home a few times. In one of their conversations, the boy asked the Old Man: "how 1s it that out of all of the people's leaders in the past 2,000 years, and even in the past 80 years, 1t was you who ended up founding the Jewish State?" And the HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028917