Palmach Ze’evi, the son of slain Tourism Minister Rechavam Ze’evi, said Thursday that he worries that Israelis are becoming apathetic. “We miss you, dad,” he said in a memorial ceremony for his father. “We Israelis are becoming apathetic, we’re distancing ourselves from the state, and that’s the beginning of the end.”
“A far more lethal danger than the Arab bullets,” Ze’evi said, “is our exhaustion.” He expressed hope that Israelis would regain “the passionate love that my father had for the land and for the Jews living on it.”