A Great Man

Harry Hurwitz, Zionist legend, has passed away.

It's hard to believe it. We had just traveled with him and his beloved wife Freida to a wedding a couple of weeks ago.

Years, no, decades before I had ever met them, I remember reading about Harry Hurwitz, the great Zionist, Betari, Jabotinsky Revisionist of South Africa and his newspaper.

I never dreamt that my husband would end up working for him at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center. In those days, Begin was the head of the opposition, and nobody, other than the most optimistically idealistic ever really thought that Menachem Begin would someday be Israel's Prime Minister. Harry believed in Begin. And now, no doubt, Begin is greeting him in Olam Haba, the World to Come.