History Of Israel Book

	List of Maps	x
	Preface	xi
1	The Road to Statehood, 1897-1947	1
	Theodor Herzl	1
	Eretz Yisrael	7
	Palestine in the First World War	13
	The post-war period	18
	The British Mandate	21
	The Arab Rebellion, 1936-39	27
	Palestine in the Second World War	33
	Turning on the British	37
	Partition and civil war	39
2	The Birth of Israel, 1948-1949	44
	Friday, 14 May 1948	44
	War	47
	End of war and the emergence of a democracy	59
3	Years of Consolidation, 1950-1966	70
	Mass immigration	70
	Communal problems	71
	The economy in crisis	75
	Tensions along the borders	79
	New leadership	81
	The politicization of the Holocaust	86
	The 1956 Kadesh campaign and after	88
	Domestic issues	93
	The Lavon Affair	95
	Germany again	98
	Enter Levy Eshkol	100
4	The Six-Day War and Afterwards, 1967-1973	104
	Descent to war	104
	The waiting period	110
	Six days of war	116
	The new society	123
	Snail's pace diplomacy	125
	Enter Golda Meir	129
	War of attrition	130
	Golda and Anwar el-Sadat	134
	Terrorism, immigration and riots	136
5	Yom Kippur War and the Death of Labour, 1973-1977	139
	Sadat prepares war	139
	Israel stumbles into the trap	142
	Invasion	151
	Fighting back	154
	Post-war: society and diplomacy	156
	The Agranat report	157
	Enter Yitzhak Rabin	159
	Enter Shimon Peres	165
6	Begin's Years, 1977-1983	168
	Building a coalition	168
	First steps to peace	170
	The home front	176
	Camp David and after	183
	'Tamuz 1'	191
	A second Likud government	194
	War in Lebanon	196
7	The Road to Peace, 1983-1991	205
	Enter Yitzhak Shamir	205
	Working Together	208
	Intifada	215
	Immigration and death of the coalition	221
	War and immigration	227
	The road to peace	230
	The Madrid Peace Conference	232
8	Peace and War, 1992 to Present	236
	Enter Yitzhak Rabin	236
	Enter Benjamin Netanyahu	254
	Enter Ehud Barak	261
	Enter Ariel Sharon	277
Appendix 1	The Dayan el-Tohami Protocol, 1977	287
Appendix 2	Draft Declaration of Principles, Israel-Syria, 1992	291
	Notes	295
	Further Reading	302
	Index	308