My greatest joy in all of this activity was that associated
with the founding and development of the Jerusalem In-
stitute for Federal Studies, now enlarged as the Jerusalem
Center for Public Affairs, of which the former remains a
principal pillar. The federal idea has its origins in the seg-
ment of western Asia which became known more than three
thousand years ago as Eretz Israel (the Land of Israel). It has
been my privilege to bring back to that land the organized
and systematic expression of that idea in its political context
through the Jerusalem Center and, via the center, into the
Israeli body politic and the larger maelstrom of Middle
Eastern politics. That task continues to engage the greater
part of my energies in that curious combination of frustra-
tion and reward which is so characteristic of the region of
which the center is a part.

Daniel J. Elazar

Jerusalem

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