Upper West Bank: The Story of American-Born Settlers

The American flag seen hanging in the West Bank. Credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90

Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn, a lecturer in Israel Studies at Oxford University, discusses her book City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement, which attempts to explain why American-born Jews are disproportionately represented among immigrants who settled in the West Bank.


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