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In May 1966, Konrad Adenauer visited Israel as an official guest of the government. Of the several demonstrations that overshadowed his visit, the one held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was the most turbulent.

On the corner of Rothschild Boulevard and Nachlat Binyamin Street in downtown Tel Aviv stands an office building: the Benin House. Dwarfed today by skyscrapers, in its day it was an urban landmark, built in the International Style by architect Zaki Chelouche.

​On the afternoon of May 14, 1948, while the People’s Council headed by David Ben-Gurion convened in Tel Aviv to declare the establishment of the State of Israel, members of the »Palestinian Delegation to the Surviving Remnant [of European Jewry]« gathered around radios at the Jewish Agency’s headquarters in Möhlstraße in Munich to listen to this declaration.

Nachdem Hannah Arendt im Frühjahr 1971 die kleine Schrift »Rahel und Goethe« gelesen hatte, schrieb sie an die Verfasserin, die 1956 aus dem schwedischen Exil in die Bundesrepublik zurückgekehrte Literaturwissenschaftlerin Käte Hamburger, einen empörten Brief.