Footnote

a At Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 25. the third day of the five-day triennial convention of the B’nai Berith, according to special dispatch to the New York Times, “Former Premier David Ben-Gurion said today that there was a need to revitalize the covenant of the Bible in which a united Jewish people would serve as ‘a light to other nations.’ In an address that was essentially a dissertation on the meaning of the covenant, Mr. Ben-Gurion gently warned the B’nai B’rith convention of the dangers to American Jews of assimilation. ‘There is a great danger to the survival of the Jews in the Diaspora,’ Mr. Ben-Gurion said, ‘unless Jews everywhere remember the covenant. . . . Our secret weapon as a people is our moral, intellectual and spiritual superiority, which we inherited from the Bible.’”—New York Times, May 26, 1965.