Leading Conversations - the Begin Center Podcast
Sep 3, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min · 15 segments
Continuing our series on Israel's Prime Ministers, “The Buck Stops Here”. To discuss Yitzhak Shamir, we welcomed Dan Meridor, a veteran politician who started his career in public life as Begin’s…
Dan MeridorGuest
Paul GrossHost
Let me tell you, there's a One or two things I want to tell is stories about Shabir that I think are very important.
But Dan, before you do, I'm getting nervous that that microphone is going to fall off.
We, of course, with the American help and other people, waged this campaign of let my people go.
But on top and above the Jewish story, there were Gorbachev, Perestroika, and so forth.
George Shultz was the American Secretary of State, an economist from Chicago, a very, very able and very good man and very good friend of Israel.
And we speak with him, the State Department on seventh floor, about strategic relationship and help to Israel.
When the meeting comes to an end, Shamil says, I have one other thing I want to raise with you.
There was then a rule in the United States, either a law or some government decision, trying to help Soviet Jews, that every Jew who comes out of the Soviet Union is considered stateless, and he can come to America and have either a green card or maybe even citizenship.
Let me tell you, there's a One or two things I want to tell is stories about Shabir that I think are very important.
But Dan, before you do, I'm getting nervous that that microphone is going to fall off.
We, of course, with the American help and other people, waged this campaign of let my people go.
But on top and above the Jewish story, there were Gorbachev, Perestroika, and so forth.
George Shultz was the American Secretary of State, an economist from Chicago, a very, very able and very good man and very good friend of Israel.
And we speak with him, the State Department on seventh floor, about strategic relationship and help to Israel.
When the meeting comes to an end, Shamil says, I have one other thing I want to raise with you.
There was then a rule in the United States, either a law or some government decision, trying to help Soviet Jews, that every Jew who comes out of the Soviet Union is considered stateless, and he can come to America and have either a green card or maybe even citizenship.
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