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“I did not give up on the whole land; rather, I thought that bringing two million Jews was worth more than fine rhetoric about the integrity of Palestine,”
Tom Segev • A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
Othman was the director of the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission.
Ronen Bergman • Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
Ben-Gurion was determined to snuff out any remaining embers of the Irgun and the Lechi, and he convinced the cabinet to give him broad powers to end acts of terrorism, including administrative detention without trial. The era of the Jewish underground,…
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Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Natan Sharansky, a world-renowned human rights activist
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
On June 3, 1982, Palestinian terrorists shot Israel’s ambassador to England, Shlomo Argov, in London.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Brenner, complex though he was, was perhaps the cultural icon of the Second Aliyah. His work, still considered brilliant, surfaced issues with which Israel continues to wrestle. He would have undoubtedly done even more than he managed in his brief life, but he was murdered by an Arab mob in the 1921 Jaffa riots.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
