A Death in Jerusalem

The Assassination by Jewish Extremists of the First Arab/Israeli

Author Kati Marton

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On the evening of September 17, 1948, a car carrying Count Folke Bernadotte, the first United Nations–appointed mediator in the Middle East, traveled up a narrow Jerusalem street. As the car shifted gears for the climb toward the New City, an Israeli Army jeep nosed into the road, forcing Bernadotte’s car and the two following him to come to a full stop. From the jeep sprang three uniformed men clutching automatic weapons. In a moment that set the stage for a legacy of violence that has since characterized Arab-Israeli negotiations, Count Bernadotte was shot six times and killed. The assassins were never brought to justice.

A Death in Jerusalem reveals the forces behind this assassination, the passion that first dictated the…

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November 23, 2011

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Kati Marton is the author of numerous works of non-fiction—Wallenberg, A Death in Jerusalem, andThe Polk Conspiracy—and fiction, An American Woman. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, and The New Republic. A former correspondent for National Public Radio and ABC News, Marton received a George Foster Peabody Award for broadcast journalism. She lives in New York City with her husband and her son and daughter.