By COLlive reporter
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is battling multiple challenges, among them the spread of Covid-19, corruption charges and political unrest, enjoyed a lighthearted moment on Monday.
As he was walking through the Israeli Knesset, he encountered Yonatan Cohen, a young frum man who was born blind. Netanyahu stopped to chat with him.
“Thank you for agreeing to meet with me,” Cohen said, and asked to make 3 requests of Israel’s longest-serving head of state.
He asked that assistance and supplies be given to students of schools that are state-recognized, that shuls not be closed during another lockdown and that blind people be able to serve in the police.
“How old are you?” Netanyahu asked.
26, Cohen replied.
“Have you learned something? I see that you sharp-minded and clear-spoken.”
Cohen replied: “I learn Torah every day and Baruch Hashem, we completed today Maseches Shabbos.”
Cohen then added, “In the merit of you safeguarding the Shabbos you will be able to win everyone and merit to hand over the keys to Moshiach as the Lubavitcher Rebbe told you…”
Netanyahu, who faces daily challenges to his emergency government and coalition in the 120-member Knesset, replied: “He also told me that I will be fighting with 119 (people). I thought he was exaggerating…”
VIDEO: Courtesy of ch10.co.il
