A History of Israel

A History of Israel examines Israel's turbulent history from the first Zionist Congress in 1897 to the present day. The driving themes of this masterly account are Jewish immigration, war, and attempts to forge peace between Israelis, Arabs, and Palestinians.

Ahron Bregman is Lecturer in History at Webster University, London.

List of Maps

x

Preface

xi

The Road to Statehood, 1897--1947

1

(43)

Theodor Herzl

1

(6)

Eretz Yisrael

7

(6)

Palestine in the First World War

13

(5)

The post-war period

18

(3)

The British Mandate

21

(6)

The Arab Rebellion, 1936--39

27

(6)

Palestine in the Second World War

33

(4)

Turning on the British

37

(2)

Partition and civil war

39

(5)

The Birth of Israel, 1948--1949

44

(26)

Friday, 14 May 1948

44

(3)

War

47

(12)

End of war and the emergence of a democracy

59

(11)

Years of Consolidation, 1950--1966

70

(34)

Mass immigration

70

(1)

Communal problems

71

(4)

The economy in crisis

75

(4)

Tensions along the borders

79

(2)

New leadership

81

(5)

The politicization of the Holocaust

86

(2)

The 1956 Kadesh campaign and after

88

(5)

Domestic issues

93

(2)

The Lavon Affair

95

(3)

Germany again

98

(2)

Enter Levy Eshkol

100

(4)

The Six-Day War and Afterwards, 1967--1973

104

(35)

Descent to war

104

(6)

The waiting period

110

(6)

Six days of war

116

(7)

The new society

123

(2)

Snail's pace diplomacy

125

(4)

Enter Golda Meir

129

(1)

War of attrition

130

(4)

Golda and Anwar el-Sadat

134

(2)

Terrorism, immigration and riots

136

(3)

Yom Kippur War and the Death of Labour, 1973--1977

139

(29)

Sadat prepares war

139

(3)

Israel stumbles into the trap

142

(9)

Invasion

151

(3)

Fighting back

154

(2)

Post-war: society and diplomacy

156

(1)

The Agranat report

157

(2)

Enter Yitzhak Rabin

159

(6)

Enter Shimon Peres

165

(3)

Begin's Years, 1977--1983

168

(37)

Building a coalition

168

(2)

First steps to peace

170

(6)

The home front

176

(7)

Camp David and after

183

(8)

`Tamuz 1'

191

(3)

A second Likud government

194

(2)

War in Lebanon

196

(9)

The Road to Peace, 1983--1991

205

(31)

Enter Yitzhak Shamir

205

(3)

Working Together

208

(7)

Intifada

215

(6)

Immigration and death of the coalition

221

(6)

War and immigration

227

(3)

The road to peace

230

(2)

The Madrid Peace Conference

232

(4)

Peace and War, 1992 to Present

236

(51)

Enter Yitzhak Rabin

236

(18)

Enter Benjamin Netanyahu

254

(7)

Enter Ehud Barak

261

(16)

Enter Ariel Sharon

277

(10)

Appendix 1: The Dayan el-Tohami Protocol, 1977

287

(4)

Appendix 2: Draft Declaration of Principles, Israel--Syria, 1992

291

(4)

Notes

295

(7)

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