A recent visitor to a self-serve library at a popular Jerusalem park received a bigger-than-usual surprise on Tuesday when they opened one of the items to its cover page and found a footnote from history.

The book, “Years of Upheaval,” is former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s 1982 account of former US President Richard Nixon’s second presidential term. A Facebook post from Shuki Ben Naim on Tuesday revealed that the cover page of the edition found at the free library featured a note from former US ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis to former prime minister Menachem Begin.

The note reads as follows:

“To Prime Minister Begin, With the highest admiration and respect, from his friend, Sam Lewis.”

Ben Naim assisted with deciphering the dedication but was not the person who found the book on Tuesday. He said it is........

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