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...first thing one remembers about Yeshayahu Leibovitz is his magnificent vigor...
...vast learning in widely disparate fields. Trained as a chemist in his native Germany, he taught science at the Hebrew University for over five decades. His discourses on Jewish philosophy were renowned. In learned volumes and popular radio programs, Leibovitz established himself as one of his generation's foremost--and most radical--interpreters of Maimonides, that towering figure in the intellectual history of the Jews...
...Leibovitz's scholarly endeavors alone could not account for his national renown when he passed away last August. Indeed, the obituaries and encomia for him in Israeli newspapers made only casual mention of his academic career. Leibovitz was remembered--and will continue to be remembered--as a twentieth century gadfly, a latter-day prophet...
...story of Leibovitz's ascent into the company of Socrates and Jeremiah begins in 1967. Immediately following the Arab-Israeli war (a moment Israelis wittily call "the seventh day" of the Six-Day War), Leibovitz predicted that Israeli occupation of the newly conquered West Bank and Gaza Strip would erode the moral fiber of the Jewish state...
...took the Intifadah, the Palestinian popular uprising that began in December of 1987, to clinch Leibovitz's status as "seer." Israeli newspapers reported the daily incidents from the territories: pitiable, rock-throwing Arab youth and ruthlessly professional Israeli soldiers, together engaged in a macabre dance of death. Editorialists began to wonder how long the undeclared war could go on without taking a severe moral toll on the occupiers...