Tel Aviv, Aug. 17 -- Former Israeli Minister of Justice Yossi Beilin has praised Vietnam as a dynamic nation emerging from the shadows of war to become a symbol of peace, development, renewal, and international connectivity.

In a recent interview with the Vietnam News Agency on the threshold of the country's 80th anniversary of the August Revolution (August 19) and National Day (September 2), Beilin, who played a key role in establishing diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Israel in 1993 as Israel's then Deputy Foreign Minister, expressed his admiration for Vietnam's transformation over the past decades.

For people of his age, Vietnam is a small but unyielding nation that triumphed in the wars. However, for younger generations, the...