Spies of No Country
Behind Enemy Lines at the Birth of the Israeli Secret Service
From the award-winning and critically-acclaimed author of Pumpkinflowers, the never-before-told story of the mysterious "Arab Section": the Jewish-"Arab" spies who, under deep cover in Beirut as refugees, helped the new State of Israel win the War of Independence.
In his third non-fiction book, Matti Friedman introduces us to four unknown young men who are caught up in the fraught events surrounding the birth of Israel in 1948 and drawn into secret lives, becoming the nucleus of Israel's intelligence service. The tiny, amateur unit known as the "Arab Section" was conceived during WWII by British spies and by Jewish militia leaders in Palestine. Consisting of Jews from Arab countries who could pass as Arabs, it was meant to gather intelligence and carry…
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March 5, 2019MATTI FRIEDMAN is an award-winning journalist and author. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic, Tablet, Smithsonian, and elsewhere. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and have won the Natan Prize, the Canadian Jewish Book Award, the Sami Rohr Prize, and the ALA’s Sophie Brody Medal.
