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My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was born in Israel. My parents came in 1925.

— Tzipi Livni

I was born in the Land of Israel, the son of pioneers - people who tilled the land and sought no fights - who did not come to Israel to dispossess its residents.

— Ariel Sharon

I feel that the Jews have always had a special connection to this part of the world, which in geographical terms was called Palestine for so many centuries.

— Daniel Barenboim

In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

If your last name is Christ, don't name your son Jesus.

— Albert Brooks

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

— Jude Law

I was called Kit from day one; really, I only found out my name was Christopher when I was 11.

— Kit Harington

People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.

— Nathan Lane

✗Opposing Perspectives

My name is Dylan simply because my parents did not know before I was born if I would be a boy or a girl, and Dylan was a name that worked in both cases.

— Dylan Penn

It was a boy's name first.

— Leslie Nielsen