Portrait of the father of a nation
Prof. Anita Shapira, one of Israel’s most eminent historians of Zionism, discusses her newly published biography of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding prime minister, with host Gilad Halpern.
Hebrew literature and the origins of Israeli malaise
Yigal Schwarz, professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, discusses his latest book, The Zionist Paradox: Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity, which analyzes Israel’s unique conceptualization of place through five canonical literary works.
Music:
Robert Plant – Rainbow
Ben Handler & Tomer Yosef – Avarti Rak Kedei Lirot
Radiohead – No Surprises
Feb 9th 2015 will mark the 100th anniversary of Israel’s founder Ben-Gurion
soliciting Jamal ‘The Butcher’ Pasha for Ottoman residency and a place in Pasha’s army to fight the British.
He was arrested as an insufferable revolutionary.