Sublime

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.

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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That group had paid a substantial amount of money so that their members could visit and inspect the department that dealt with ground-to-air missiles. Somehow Epstein’s group was mistaken for the paying group, so they received detailed information concerning the newly developed rockets. As a result, the Angel and the Lightning (“Bazak” in Hebrew) r