Bibi
The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu
The first biography that collects the threads of Benjamin Netanyahu's tumultuous personal life, controversial public career and struggle to endure as the Jewish state's leader and the master of its destiny. It is told by a writer who has spent his career explaining the world to Israelis and interpreting Israel for a global readership.
Benjamin Netanyahu was born a year after Israel. His story in many ways embodies that of the ideological underdogs of the Zionist enterprise: members of the right-wing Revisionist movement, the religious, the Mizrahi Jews who emigrated from Arab lands, the petit-bourgeoisie of the new towns and cities, who all were supposed to metamorphose into the new Israeli. It hasn't quite worked out that way.
Netanyahu is also…
$36.00
May 1, 2018
Anshel Pfeffer has written on Israeli politics and global affairs for over two decades. He is a senior commentator and columnist for Haaretz's English edition and The Economist's correspondent in Israel, as well as a contributor to The Guardian. As a journalist he has covered wars, revolutions, and political upheaval on four continents. Pfeffer's first book, Maran: A Biography of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, was published in Hebrew in 2004. Haaretz has recently published an e-book in English of his dispatches from Europe, The Cossacks Aren't Coming: The Future of Europe's Jews.
