Doron Almog was the first Israeli soldier to land at Entebbe in 1976. Now, 50 years later, he chairs the Jewish Agency and sees history repeating.
In this rare interview, Almog draws direct lines between three defining experiences: leading the 1976 Entebbe rescue with only 12 hours of preparation; raising a severely disabled son whom he calls "my greatest teacher" and for whom he built a village of 3,000 residents in southern Israel; and now stewanding the Jewish Agency's global response to the post-October 7 wave of antisemitism. He describes his son's village as "a social Entebbe," a rescue from the captivity of stigma, and argues that the same ethic of mutual responsibility that sustained Jewish people for 2,000 years is the only guarantee of Israel's survival today. "One for all, all for one," he says, "this is the secret of the existence of Jewish people."
As chairman of the Jewish Agency, Almog oversees 3,000 emissaries in 66 countries, a new security fund for diaspora communities, and an ambitious plan to settle new olim in the emptied communities of Israel's north and south. He calls October 7 "the biggest crisis of the State of Israel since its establishment," and he believes the response must be a new wave of Aliyah to rebuild the periphery, just as a million Soviet Jews rebuilt Israel in the 1990s. Almog's perspective is shaped not by ideology alone, but by a lifetime of loss, a brother killed in the Yom Kippur War, a son who never spoke a word, friends lost at Entebbe, and an unbroken conviction that an inclusive, loving society is Israel's "absolute victory."
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