PART I
In 1998, I interviewed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel for the Moroccan weekly Le Journal. Back then, it was nothing short of a revolution – the first time a journalist from an Arab-Muslim state had met with such a high-level official of what we call the “Zionist entity.”
The idea for the interview had come rather randomly, and the decision to pursue it was not taken in the spirit of provocation or propaganda in a country known for its indefectible solidarity with the Palestinians. It came during a heated debate with a diplomat in the Israeli liaison office in Rabat, Amir Weissbrod, who would later become Israel’s ambassador to Jordan.
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The school diploma seen in the picture is from the year 1916 and belongs to David Avigdor. The diploma that had been given to the museum by Naim Güleryüz, can be seen at the main floor exhibition of the Quincentenial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews.
This school diploma had been issued by the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU) school in the Ottoman Empire in 1916. The schools of AIU in the Ottoman Empire had first started to be seen in Baghdad and Damascus. These schools later were established in many residential areas such as Volos, Edirne, Thessaloniki, Izmir, and various districts of Istanbul.
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