Avi Shilon: 2 books
by Avi Shilon
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Menachem Begin, father of Israel's right wing and sixth prime minister of the nation, was known for his unflinchingly hawkish ideology. And yet, in 1979 he signed a groundbreaking peace treaty with Egypt for which he and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat received the Nobel Prize for Peace. Such a contradiction...
Ben-Gurion
His Later Years in the Political Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This is the first in-depth account of the later years of David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973), Israel’s first Prime Minister and founding father. One of the first to sign Israel’s declaration of independence and a leading figure in Zionism, Ben-Gurion stepped down from office in 1963 and retired from...