Ben-Gurion
Subtitle: a political life
By: Shimon Peres, with David Landau
Contributors: Landau, David, 1947-
Publisher: Nextbook/Schocken
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780805242829
Subjects: Politics and government; Prime ministers; Biography; Zionists
Description: A portrait of Israel's first prime minister covers his support of the United Nations 1947 Partition Plan for Palestine, his granting of first exemptions to Orthodox military servicepeople, and his peaceful overtures toward post-Holocaust Germany.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: Young Turk; title: Union boss; title: Onward and upward; title: What could he do?; title: Fateful hour; title: Birth pangs; title: Settling in; title: Jewish people, Jewish policy; title: A nation among nations; title: Defense of the realm; title: Soured fruits; title: Tomb of the patriarch.