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Ben-Gurions Political Struggles, 1963-1967: A Lion in Winter
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Zaky Shalom
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An essential insight into this central figure in the modern history of Israel and Zionism. This important new study explores the years that built up to the Six Day War and details the crucial issues and events the world is still grappling with today.This book traces Daniel Ben-Gurions waning years in Israeli politics. After his resignation from the office of prime minister in 1963, the Old Man soon lost faith in his self-chose successor, Levi Eshkol, and ceaselessly tried to undermine the latters premiership, eventually forming a breakaway party. The events leading up to the Six-Day War in June 1967 caught Ben-Gurion by surprise. During the weeks-long waiting period prior to the outbreak of hostilities, he paid little attention to daily security issues. But when war did erupt, he displayed one of his key leadership skills the ability to formulate an accurate, independent situation assessment. It will be of interest to scholars working in Israeli politics and history, this is a lucid, thoroughly researched account of the sunset years of the driving force behind the Israeli nation-state.

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Ben-Gurions Political Struggles, 19631967

With piercing insight into one of the principal figures of Zionism and modern Israel, this book explores David Ben-Gurions political career in the years leading up to the Six-Day War and details many of the crucial issues and events the world is still grappling with.

This book traces David Ben-Gurions waning years in the Israeli political arena. After his resignation from the office of prime minister in 1963, the Old Man soon lost faith in his self-chosen successor, Levi Eshkol, and ceaselessly tried to undermine the latters premiership, eventually forming a breakaway party.

The events preceding the Six-Day War in June 1967 caught Ben-Gurion by surprise. During the weeks-long waiting period before the outbreak of hostilities, he paid little attention to daily security issues. But when war did erupt, he displayed one of his key leadership skills the ability to formulate an accurate independent assessment of the situation.

Of interest to scholars of Israeli politics and history, the book is a lucid, thoroughly researched account of the sunset years of the driving force behind Israels nation-state.

Zaki Shalom is a senior researcher at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the study of Israel and Zionism, Ben-Gurion University and a former Israeli military intelligence officer. His areas of interest include modern Israeli history and Middle East politics.

Israeli History, Politics, and Society
Series editor: Efraim Karsh
Kings College London

This series provides a multidisciplinary examination of all aspects of Israeli history, politics and society, and serves as a means of communication between the various communities interested in Israel: academics, policy makers, practitioners, journalists, and the informed public.

1 Peace in the Middle East
The challenge for Israel
Edited by Efraim Karsh

2 The Shaping of Israeli
Identity
Myth, memory and trauma
Edited by Robert Wistrich andDavid Ohana

3 Between War and Peace
Dilemmas of Israeli security
Edited by Efraim Karsh

4 USIsraeli Relations at the
Crossroads
Edited by Gabriel Sheffer

5 Revisiting the Yom Kippur
War
Edited by P. R. Kumaraswamy

6 Israel
The dynamics of change and
continuity
Edited by David Levi-Faur,
Gabriel Sheffer and
David Vogel

7 In Search of Identity
Jewish aspects in Israeli culture
Edited by Dan Urian and
Efraim Karsh

8 Israel at the Polls, 1996
Edited by Daniel J. Elazar and
Shmuel Sandler

9 From Rabin to Netanyahu
Israels troubled agenda
Edited by Efraim Karsh

10 Fabricating Israeli History
The new historians, second
revised edition
Efraim Karsh

11 Divided against Zion
Anti-Zionist opposition in
Britain to a Jewish state in
Palestine, 19451948
Rory Miller

12 Peacemaking in a Divided
Society
Israel after Rabin
Edited by Sasson Sofer

13 A Twenty-Year Retrospective
of EgyptianIsraeli Relations
Peace in spite of everything
Ephraim Dowek

14 Global Politics
Essays in honor of David Vital
Edited by Abraham Ben-Zvi
and Aharon Klieman

15 Parties, Elections and
Cleavages
Israel in comparative and
theoretical perspective
Edited by Reuven Y. Hazan
and Moshe Maor

16 Israel and the Polls 1999
Edited by Daniel J. Elazar and
M. Ben Mollov

17 Public Policy in Israel
Edited by David Nachmias
and Gila Menahem

18 Developments in Israeli Public
Administration
Edited by Moshe Maor

19 Israeli Diplomacy and the
Quest for Peace
Mordechai Gazit

20 IsraeliRomanian Relations at
the End of Ceaucescus Era
Yosef Govrin

21 John F. Kennedy and the
Politics of Arms Sales to Israel
Abraham Ben-Zvi

22 Green Crescent over Nazareth
The displacement of Christians
by Muslims in the Holy Land
Raphael Israeli

23 Jerusalem Divided
The armistice region,
19471967
Raphael Israeli

24 Decision on Palestine
Deferred
America, Britain and wartime
diplomacy, 19391945
Monty Noam Penkower

25 A Dissenting Democracy
The case of peace now, an
Israeli peace movement
Magnus Norell

26 Israeli Identity
In search of a successor to the
pioneer, Tsabar and settler
Lilly Weissbrod

27 The Israeli Palestinians
An Arab minority in the
Jewish state
Edited by Alexander Bligh

28 Israel, the Hashemites and the
Palestinians
The fateful triangle
Edited by Efraim Karsh and
P. R. Kumaraswamy

29 Last Days in Israel
Abraham Diskin

30 War in Palestine, 1948
Strategy and diplomacy
David Tal

31 Rethinking the Middle East
Efraim Karsh

32 Ben-Gurion against the
Knesset
Giora Goldberg

33 Trapped Fools
Thirty years of Israeli policy in
the territories
Schlomo Gazit

34 Israels Quest for Recognition
and Acceptance in Asia
Garrison state diplomacy
Jacob Abadi

35 The Harp and Shield of David
Ireland, Zionism and the state
of Israel, 19371963 Eliash Schulamit

36 H. V. Evatt and the
Establishment of Israel
The undercover Zionist
Daniel Mandel

37 Navigating Perilous Waters
An Israeli strategy for peace
and security
Ephraim Sneh

38 Lyndon B. Johnson and
the Politics of Arms Sales
to Israel
In the shadow of the hawk
Abraham Ben-Zvi

39 Israel at the Polls 2003
Edited by Shmeul Sandler, Ben
M. Mollov & Jonathan
Rynhold

40 Between Capital and Land
The Jewish national funds
finances and land-purchase
priorities in Palestine,
19391945
Eric Engel Tuten

41 Israeli Democracy at the
Crossroads
Raphael Cohen-Almagor

42 Israeli Institutions at the
Crossroads
Raphael Cohen-Almagor

43 The IsraeliPalestine Peace
Process Negotiations,
19992001
Within reach
Gilead Sher

44 Ben-Gurions Political
Struggles, 19631967
A lion in winter
Zaki Shalom

Israel: The First Hundred Years (Mini Series)
Edited by Efraim Karsh

1 Israels Transition from
Community to State
Edited by Efraim Karsh

2 From War to Peace?
Edited by Efraim Karsh

3 Politics and Society since 1948
Edited by Efraim Karsh

4 Israel in the International
Arena
Edited by Efraim Karsh

5 Israel in the Next Century
Edited by Efraim Karsh

First published 2006

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