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1949: The First Israelis

By Tom Segev, Arlen N. Weinstein (Translator)
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The founding of Israel in 1948—one of the seminal events of the century—offers a heroic narrative with few parallels in modern history. In 1949, a controversial best-seller in Israel, Tom Segev draws on thousands of declassified documents along with personal diaries and correspondence to reconstruct the unvarnished story of Israel's first year.

Segev reveals the lofty aspirations that guided the state's leaders as well as the darker side of the Zionist utopia: the friction between the early ...

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