This chapter traces the shift of Israeli leaders’ political oratory from the state’s founding to the present time, through speeches of four prime ministers representing different movements and generations: David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Rabin (Labor Party, left wing) and Menachem Begin and Benjamin Netanyahu (Territorialist right-wing/National Camp). Their rhetoric reflects the social, political, and security changes that the country has undergone: from the establishment of institutions and a common identity, through security struggles, striving for peace, shaping Israel as a technological power, and finally, to accepting the state as “obvious” as its leaders trying to survive politically at the top. Ben-Gurion, the pioneer, spoke in prophetic tones and calls to action; Rabin, born in pre-state Zionist Jewish collective in Palestine, was pragmatic and realistic. Begin, a rightist newcomer from Poland, rooted his rhetoric in Jewish history and framed peace as a noble goal, while Netanyahu, native-born, has relied on exclusionary, populist language and sharp survival instincts.