Shmuel Ben-Artzi

JERUSALEM, Israel — The late Shmuel Ben-Artzi, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s father-in-law, who was a writer, poet and educator, was laid to rest in Jerusalem on Nov. 11.
Among those in attendance at the funeral were President Shimon Peres, Rabbis Yisrael Meir Lau and Yona Metzger, government ministers and Members of Knesset, friends, and family members including his sons, his daughter Sara and son-in-law the prime minister, and their two sons, Yair and Avner.
During Netanyahu’s eulogy for Ben-Artzi, the prime minister called his father-in-law, “a man who had conventional wisdom and wisdom of the heart, one of the most truly outstanding individuals of our generation.”
The prime minister said, “I never met anyone who knew him, who wasn’t captivated by his personality, who wasn’t enchanted by his modesty and his sensitivity, by the depth of his knowledge and the good of his heart, by his down-to-earth manners and his life story.”
Israel Hayom/exclusive to JointMedia News Service