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G-d bless Rosa Bossi (1911–2008).

(IsraelNN.com) Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in a special diplomatic speech on Wednesday in the Knesset, said that Israel’s main danger is Iran, attacked the Goldstone Report, and in general expressed strong support for Israel.

It was Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who stole the show, however, when he told the Knesset of an Italian woman who endangered herself during World War II to protect a Nazi-threatened Jewish woman. At the end of the story, Netanyahu said that the woman was none other than Berlusconi's mother – and the entire Knesset assemblage stood on its feet and applauded...

Netanyahu, after recounting the ups - and also some downs - of Italian-Israeli relations over the years, began telling of an Italian woman in a train station who encountered a Jewish girl being threatened by a Nazi policeman. The woman courageously positioned herself in between the two, Netanyahu said, and made it clear that if the Nazi attempted to take the girl, “no one in this station will let you get out of here alive.”

“The name of that woman,” Netanyahu continued dramatically, “was Rosa, and this is her son – Silvio Berlusconi.” source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135846