“While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched.”

—  Habib Bourguiba

[Religion: Exodus, TIME, Friday, July 06, 1962, 1, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940033,00.html, September 6, 2011]

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Tunisian politician 1903–2000

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