As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.
Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child.
It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.
We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living.
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
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.
I was born in Israel. My parents came in 1925.