Israelâs current president gives us a dramatic and revelatory biography of Israelâs first prime minister and its founding father.
Shimon Peres was in his early twenties when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that he would lead through war and peace had not yet declared its precarious independence, the âOld Man,â as he was called even then, was already a mythic figure. Peres, who came of age in the cabinets of Ben-Gurion, is uniquely placed to evoke this figure of stirring contradictionsâa prophetic visionary and a canny pragmatist who early grasped the necessity of compromise for national survival. Ben-Gurion supported the United Nations 1947 Partition Plan for Palestine, though it meant surrendering a 2,000-year-old dream of Jewish settlement in the entire land of Israel. He granted the Orthodox their first exemptions from military service despite his own deep secular commitments, and he reached out to Germany in the aftermath of the Holocaust, knowing that Israel would need as many strong alliances as possible within the European community.
A protégé of Ben-Gurion and himself a legendary figure on the international political stage, Shimon Peres brings to his account of Ben-Gurionâs life and towering achievements the profound insight of a statesman who shares Ben-Gurionâs dream of a modern, democratic, Jewish nation-state that lives in peace and security alongside its Arab neighbors. In Ben-Gurion, Peres sees a neglected model of leadership that Israel and the world desperately need in the twenty-first century.
Categories:
- History
- Middle East
- Israel & Palestine
- Middle East
Publisher : Schocken
Author : Landau, David,Peres, Shimon
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2011-10-25
Number Of Pages : 240
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0805242821
ISBN-13 : 9780805242829
Item weight : 1.05 lb
Dimensions : 1.3 in x 5.8 in x 9.1 in
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