He liked the Michal Sigolim, the eh eh, a combination like Remez, and he even incorporated the name Remez into one of the words which you're probably familiar with but you don't know as no one else does, that he coined the term Ramzor for a traffic light, Remez or a light signal.

That's Guidon Remez, a circle of prize-winning journalist who headed call Israel or the voice of Israel's foreign desk for decades.

His grandfather, David Remez, Israel's first minister of transportation, and the man who chose the biblical phrase El Al is the name for Israel's national airline, was known for his linguistic flair for his love of organized labor, and of course for his oversized autograph.

Hey, Amishi Harman, and this is Israel's story. Israel's story is brought to you by the Jerusalem Foundation and the Times of Israel.

So Israel is turning 75, and we feel this is a moment for us to step back and take stock, to ask where we came from, where we are, and where for God's sake, we're going.

And in order to answer those questions, we decided to go back to the basics.

Our series, Signed, Sealed, Delivered, looks at our founding moral compass, Megilatatsmot, or the Declaration of Independence.

37 people sign Megilatatsmot, and over the course of the past several months, our team is diligently tracked down the closest living relative of each one of these signatories and interviewed them.

We talked about their ancestors and families, about the promise of the Declaration, the places in which we delivered on that promise, the places in which we exceeded our wildest dreams, and also about the places where we fell short.

And it is through these descendants of the men and women, who, with a strike of a pen, gave birth to this country of ours, that we wish to learn something about ourselves.

Today we'll meet David Remis, and his grandson, Gidon Remis.

He'll present one of the many political perspectives, we'll be featuring throughout the series.

We'll be right back.