Word: menahem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years. Nine years ago he visited the U. S. Fellow Zionists call him "The Iron Will." But his first name, Menachem, means "the comforter." There is an interesting reverse parallelism between Menachem Ussishkin, one of those under whom the Jews are trying to reestablish themselves in Palestine, and King Menahem under whom the Israel ites, Jewish brethren, almost lost the region. The Israelites were still worshipping Jeroboam's golden-calves in Menahem's reign, about 2,668 years ago, when Pul (nickname for King Tiglath-pileser of As syria) came down to conquer the region. Menahem paid...