For 47 generations, there was a rabbi in Naphtali Lavie's family. Nazi Germany tried to end the line. And failed.

        The same fundamental zeal of Nazi Germany thrives today in Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaida network, but former Israeli Ambassador Lavie says the Islamic extremists ultimately will fail, too.

        “Evil will pass,” said Mr. Lavie, who took part in the Camp David peace talks in the late 1970s and served as consul general of Israel in New York from 1981 to 1985. Mr. Lavie came to Cincinnati this week to encourage investment in Israeli bonds.

        He also brought a message of hope.

        Despite 6 million Jews dying in the Holocaust, Hitler's vision of eliminating the religion never succeeded.

        Today, Mr. Lavie's brother is Chief Rabbi of Israel, and his son is the family's 49th-generation rabbi.

        “Hitler tried and failed,” he said.

        Mr. Lavie was a boy in Piotrkow, Poland, when Nazis turned it into the first ghetto. He was imprisoned in death camps, first Auschwitz and later Buchenwald.

        Mr. Lavie still remembers the inscription on the belt of an SS soldier who beat him. It said: “God is with us.”

        “He believed that God was with them; so you see, it repeats itself,” Mr. Lavie said. “People commit the most murderous acts and pretend to do it in the name of God.

        “I have confidence in justice, and people will come back to their senses and prevent the evil things we are now witnessing.”

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