TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sachar,Howard M.
TI  - A history of Israel: from the rise of Zionism to our time 
SN  - 9780375711329
AV  - 416 DS 126.5 S121h 2007
U1  - 956.94 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Zionism
KW  - History
KW  - Sionismo
KW  - Historia
KW  - Israel
KW  - Palestine
KW  - 1917-1948
KW  - Palestina
N1  - "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages [1135]-1207) and index; The rise of Jewish nationalism
The beginning of the Return
Herzl and the rise of political Zionism
The growth of the Yishuv
The Balfour Declaration
The establishment of the mandate
Building the Jewish national home
The seeds of Arab-Jewish confrontation
Britain repudiates the Jewish national home
Palestine in World War II
The Yishuv repudiates the mandate
The birth of Israel
The war of independence
The growth of the Israeli republic
Ingathering and the struggle for economic survival
The search for peace and security
Sinai and Suez
Years of economic and social growth
A decade of political and diplomatic achievement
Cultural and ideological currents
The Six-Day War
Israel as empire
Israel and world Jewry
The War of the Day of Judgment
Aftermath of an earthquake
The Likud era begins
An accommodation with Egypt
Romantic nationalism and Realpolitik
Revisionism at the apogee
Israel in Lebanon
A crisis of Israeli spirit, of diaspora loyalty
The era of unity governments
The wages of immobilism
A tormented road to peace
A deterioration of the Rabin-Peres legacy
Ehud Barak's two years
The bulldozer as prime minister
The bulldozer as statesman
Israel faces the Twenty-first Century
A mottled landscape
A Middle Eastern hour of decision
N2  - Voluminous treatise encompassing the history of Israel from the late-nineteenth century to present day
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip076/2006101970.html
ER  -