June 2025
CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles to guide understanding of leaders and leadership throughout Israeli history.
Books
Abrams, Dennis. Ehud Olmert: Modern World Leaders. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2008.
Agress, Eliyahu. Golda Meir: Portrait of a Prime Minister. New York: Sabra Books, 1969.
Almogi, Yosef. The Struggle for Ben-Gurion: In the Wake of the Affair. Jerusalem: Yedioth Ahronoth, 1988.
Aronoff, Myron. Israel Under Rabin. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.
Aronoff, Yael. The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers: When Hard-Liners Opt for Peace. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Aronson, Shlomo. David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance. London: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Aronson, Shlomo. Levi Eshkol: From Pioneering Operator to Tragic Hero — A Doer. London: Valentine Mitchell, 2011.
Atkins, Ann. Golda Meir: True Grit. Paoli, PA: Flash History Press, 2015.
Avallone, Michael. A Woman Called Golda. New York: Leisure Books, 1982.
Avi-hai, Avraham. Ben Gurion: State Builder. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1974.
Avner, Yehuda. The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership. New York: The Toby Press, 2010. (Contains lengthy and delightfully interesting chapters on Prime Ministers Eshkol, Rabin, Meir and Begin.)
Avineri, Shlomo. Arlosoroff. New York: Globe Weidenfeld, 1990.
Avineri, Shlomo. Herzl’s Vision: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State. New York: BlueBridge, 2014.
Avnery, Uri. Ezer Weizman: The Peacemaker. New York: Church Peace Union, 1979.
Bachi-Kolodny, Ruth. Teddy Kollek: The Man, His Life and His Jerusalem. New York: Gefen Publishing House, 2008.
Baker, Rachel. Chaim Weizmann: Builder of a Nation. New York: Julian Messner, 1950.
Bar-On, Mordecai. Moshe Dayan: Israel’s Controversial Hero. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.
Bar-Zohar, Michael. The Armed Prophet: A Biography of David Ben-Gurion. Translated by Len Ortzen. London: Arthur Barker Ltd., 1967.
Bar-Zohar, Michael. Ben-Gurion: A Biography. Translated by Peretz Kidron. New York: Adama Books, 1986.
Bar-Zohar, Michael. Phoenix: Shimon Peres and the Secret History of Israel. West 26th Street, 2016.
Bar-Zohar, Michael. Shimon Peres: The Biography. New York: Random House, 2007.
Barnet, Litvinoff. Ben-Gurion of Israel. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1954.
Barak, Ehud. My Country, My Life: Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016.
Begin, Menachem. The Revolt. New York: Tolmich, 2013.
Begin, Menachem. White Nights: The Story of a Prisoner in Russia. Translated by Katie Kaplan. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.
Bein, Alex. Theodor Herzl: A Biography. New York: Meridian Books, 1941.
Beller, Steven. Herzl. London: Peter Halban, 2004.
Benziman, Uzi. Sharon: An Israeli Caesar. New York: Adams, 1985.
Ben-Ami, Shlomo. Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Ben-Gurion, David. The Letters of David Ben-Gurion. Edited by Yehuda Erez. Tel Aviv: Am Oved and Tel Aviv University, 1972.
Ben-Gurion, David. My Talks With Arab Leaders. Translated by Misha Louvish. Jerusalem: Keter Books, 1972.
Ben-Gurion, David. Recollections. Edited by Thomas R. Bransten. London: Macdonald and Co., 1970.
Ben-Gurion, David, and Thomas R. Bransten. Memoirs. Wenatchee, WA: World Publishing Co., 1970.
Ben-Hur, Raphaella Bilski. Every Individual a King: The Social and Political Thought of Ze’ev Vladimir Jabotinsky. Washington, DC: B’nai B’rith Books, 1993.
Ben Yehuda, Eliezer. A Dream Come True. Translated by T. Muraoka. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.
Benedikt, Linda. Yitzhak Rabin: The Battle for Peace. London: Haus Books, 2005.
Bloom, Etan. Arthur Ruppin and the Production of Pre-Israeli Culture. Boston: Brill 2011.
Blumberg, H.M. Weizmann: His Life and Times. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1975.
Brenner, Lenni. The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism From Jabotinsky to Shamir. London: Zed, 1984.
Brodetsky, Selig. Memoirs From Ghetto to Israel. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1960.
Burkett, Elinor. Golda. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.
Burkett, Elinor. Golda Meir: The First Woman Prime Minister in the West. London: Gibson Square Books, 2008.
Burkett, Elinor. Golda Meir: The Iron Lady of the Middle East. London: Gibson Square Books, 2010.
Caspit, Ben, and Ora Cummings. The Netanyahu Years. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2017.
Chanoff, David. Warrior: The Autobiography of Ariel Sharon. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
Chesner Fish, Bilha. Beyond Division: The Resilient Lives of Thirty Diverse Israeli Women Leaders. New York: Post Hill Press, 2025.
Christman, Henry M. (ed.). The State Papers of Levi Eshkol. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969.
Creveld, Martin Van. Moshe Dayan. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004.
Davidson, Margaret. The Golda Meir Story. New York: Scribner, 1976.
Dan, Uri. Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Dayan, Moshe. Breakthrough: A Personal Account of the Egypt-Israel Peace Negotiations. New York: Random House, 1981.
Dayan, Moshe. Diary of the Sinai Campaign 1956. New York: Haper & Row, 1966.
Dayan, Moshe. Moshe Dayan: A Portrait. Edited by Pinchas Jurman. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1968.
Dayan, Moshe. Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life. New York: William Morrow, 1976.
Dayan, Moshe, and Gemma Levine. Moshe Dayan: Living With the Bible. New York: William Morrow, 1978.
Dayan, Yael. My Father, His Daughter. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985.
Derfler, Leslie. Yitzhak Rabin: A Political Biography. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Doran, Michael, and Hillel Halkin. Menachem Begin’s Zionist Legacy. Jerusalem: Koren Publishers, 2015.
Ducovny, Amram. David Ben-Gurion in His Own Words. New York: Fleet Press, 1968.
Drucker, Malka. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. New York: Dutton Juvenile, 1987.
Eban, Abba. Abba Eban: An Autobiography. New York: Random House, 1977.
Eban, Abba. From a State of War to a State of Peace. New York: Israel Information Services, 1967.
Eban, Abba. Personal Witness: Israel Through My Eyes. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1992.
Elath, Eliahu. Israel and Elath: The Political Struggle for the Inclusion of Elath in the Jewish State. London: Wiedenfeld and Nicholson, 1966.
Elath. Eliahu. Zionism at the U.N.: A Diary of the First Days. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1976.
Elkins, Dov Peretz. Shepherd of Jerusalem: A Biography of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. New York: Shengold Publishers, 1975.
Elon, Amos. Herzl. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975.
Even, Jacob, and Simcha B. Maoz. At the Decisive Point in the Sinai: Generalship in the Yom Kippur War. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2017.
Eytan, Freddy, and Robert Davies. Ariel Sharon: A Life in Times of Turmoil. Evanston, IL: Studio 9 Books, 2006.
Falk, Avner. Herzl, King of the Jews: A Psychoanalytic Biography of Theodor Herzl. New York: University Press of America, 1993.
Fellman, Jack. The Revival of a Classic Tongue: Eliezer Ben Yehuda and the Modern Hebrew Language. The Hague: Mouton, 1973.
Freedman, Robert Owen. Israel in the Begin Era. New York: Praeger, 1982.
Freedman, Robert Owen. Israel Under Rabin. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.
Friling, Tuvia. Arrows in the Dark: David Ben-Gurion, the Yishuv Leadership, and Rescue Attempts During the Holocaust. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.
Frois, Tedi. Begin in Power. Jerusalem: Keter, 1984.
Giladi, Dan. Eshkol as a Leader. Jerusalem: Yad Ben Tzvi, 1985.
Giloni, Moshe. Ze’ev Jabotinsky: Soldier, Statesman, Man of Vision. New York: Jewish National Fund, 1974.
Golan, John W. Lavi: The United States, Israel, and a Controversial Fighter. University of Nebraska Press, 2016. (See especially “The Next Lion,” pp. 33-43.)
Golan, Motti. Shimon Peres: A Biography. Translated by Ina Friedman. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1982.
Golan, Motti. The Road to Peace: A Biography of Shimon Peres. Translated by Akiva Ron. New York: Warner Books, 1989.
Goldman, Nahum. The Jewish Paradox: The Personal Memoir of Historic Encounters That Shaped the Drama of Modern Jewry. New York: Fred Jordan Books, 1978.
Goldman, Nahum. The Autobiography of Nahum Goldman. New York: Hold Rinehart Books, 1969.
Goldstein, Yossi. Eshkol: A Biography. Jerusalem: Keter, 2003.
Goldwater, Raymond. Pioneers of Religious Zionism: Rabbis Alkalai, Kalischer, Mohliver, Reines and Maimon. Jerusalem:Urim Publications, 2009.
Gordis, Daniel. Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul. New York: Schocken Books, 2014.
Granot (Granovksy), Abraham. Agrarian Reform and the Record of Israel. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1956.
Granot (Granovsky), Abraham. The Land System in Palestine: History and Structure. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1952.
Granot (Granovsky), Abraham. Land for the Jewish State. Jerusalem: Jewish National Fund, 1948.
Granot (Granovsky), Abraham. The Land Issue in Palestine. Jerusalem: Keren Kayemeth Leisrael, 1936.
Granot (Granovsky), Abraham. Land Policy in Palestine. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1976 and 1940.
Granot (Granovsky), Abraham. Land Problems in Palestine. London: Routledge, 1926.
Grosbard, Ofer, and Pinhas Yehezkeli. Menachem Begin: The Absent Leader. Glilot, Israel: Strategic Research and Policy Center, National Defense College, IDF, 2007.
Grosbard, Ofer. Menachem Begin: A Portrait of a Leader — A Biography. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2006.
Haber, Eitan. Menachem Begin: The Legend and the Man. Translated by Louis Williams. New York: Delacorte Press, 1979.
Haber, Eitan. “Today War Will Break Out”: The Reminiscences of Brig. Gen. Israel Lior, Aide-de-Camp to Prime Ministers Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir. Tel Aviv: Adanim, 1987.
Hafez, Nir, and Gadi Bloom. Ariel Sharon: A Life. Translated by Mitch Ginsburg. New York: Random House, 2006.
Halkin, Hillel. Jabotinsky: A Life. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.
Heller, Daniel Kupfert. Jabotinsky’s Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism. Princeton University Press, 2017.
Herman, Louis J. Herzl as I Remember Him. New York: Herzl Press, 1959.
Hertzberg, Arthur. The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1997.
Herzog, Chaim. Living History: A Memoir. New York: Pantheon Books, 1996.
Hillel, Shlomo. Operation Babylon. New York:Doubleday, 1987.
Hirschler, Gertrude, and Lester S. Eckman. Menachem Begin: From Freedom Fighter to Statesman. New York: Shengold Publishers, 1979.
Horowitz, Brian, and Leonid Katsis (eds.). Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Story of My Life. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2016.
Horowitz, David. Shalom, Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin. New York: Newmarket Press, 1996.
Horowitz, David. State in the Making. New York: Knopf, 1953.
Horowitz, David. Yitzhak Rabin — Soldier of Peace. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.
Hughes, Libby. Yitzhak Rabin: From Soldier to Peacemaker. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2001.
Hurwitz, Zvi Harry. Begin: His Life, Words, and Deeds. New York: Gefen Publishing, 2004.
Hurwitz, Zvi Harry, and Yisrael Medad (eds.). Peace in the Making: The Menachem Begin- Anwar El-Sadat Personal Correspondence. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, Menachem Begin Heritage Center, 2011.
Inbar, Efraim. Rabin and Israel’s National Security. Washington: Woodrow Center Press, 1999.
Indelman, Elchanan, and Shoshana Perla. President Zalman Shazar. New York: Histadruth Ivrith of America, 1970.
Isaacson, Meron. Begin. Tel Aviv: Yedioth Ahronoth, 2005.
Ish-Shalom, Benjamin. Rav Avraham Itzhak HaCohen Kook: Between Rationalism and Mysticism. New York: State University of New York Press, 1993.
Jabotinsky, Vladimir. The Jewish War Front. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1975.
Kahana, Ephraim. Decision-Making in the War Against Terror: George W. Bush, Tony Blair and Ehud Olmert. Conference Papers — International Studies Association, 2010.
Karsh, Efraim. From Rabin to Netanyahu. London: Frank Cass, 1992.
Karsh, Efraim. From Rabin to Netanyahu: Israel’s Troubled Agenda. London: Frank Cass, 1997.
Kaspit, Ben, and Ilan Kfir. Netanyahu: The Road to Power. Secaucus, NJ: Birch Lane Press, 1998.
Katz, Shmuel. Lone Wolf: A Biography of Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky. New York: Barricade Books, 1996.
Kipen, Israel. Ahad Ha’am: The Zionism of the Future. Melbourne: Hybrid Publishers, 1997.
Kisch, Frederick. Palestine Diary. London: Victor Gollancz, 1938.
Klagsbrun, Francine. Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel. New York: Schocken, 2017.
Klausner, Joseph, and I.M. Lask. Menachem Ussishkin: His Life and Work. Jerusalem: Hauman Press, 1942.
Kling, Simcha. The Mighty Warrior: The Life Story of Menaḥem Ussishkin. New York: Jonathan David Publishers, 1965.
Kook, Abraham Isaac. The Essential Writings of Abraham Isaac Kook. New York: Amity House, 1988.
Kornberg, Jacques. Theodor Herzl: From Assimilation to Zionism. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Kort, Michael. Yitzhak Rabin: Israel’s Soldier Statesman. Minneapolis: Millbrook Press, 1996.
Kurzman, Dan. Ben-Gurion: Prophet of Fire. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983.
Kurzman, Dan. Soldier of Peace: The Life of Yitzhak Rabin. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.
Landau, David. Arik: The Life of Ariel Sharon. New York: Knopf, 2014.
Landau, David, and Shimon Peres. Ben-Gurion: A Political Life. New York: Schocken, 2011.
Lavie, Naphtali Lau. Balaam’s Prophecy. New York:Toby Press, 1998 edition.
Lewisohn, Ludwig. Theodor Herzl: A Portrait for This Age. New York: World, 1955.
Lipman, Dov. An American MK: Behind the Scenes in the 19th Knesset. Bloomington, IN: Trafford on Demand Publishing, 2016.
Litvinoff, Barnet. Ben-Gurion of Israel. New York: Praeger, 1954.
Lochery, Neill. The Resistible Rise of Benjamin Netanyahu. London:Bloomsbury, 2016.
Makovsky, David. Making Peace With the PLO: The Rabin Government’s Road to the Oslo Accord. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.
Mann, Peggy. Golda: The Life of Israel’s Prime Minister. New York: Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, 1971.
Matthews, Mark. Lost Years: Bush, Sharon, and Failure in the Middle East. New York: Nation Books, 2007.
McCulloch, Maj. Oakland. The Decisiveness of Israeli Small-Unit Leadership on the Golan Heights in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Biblioscholar, 2012.
Medzini, Meron. The Proud Jewess: Golda Meir and the Vision of Israel — A Political Biography. Jerusalem: Idanim and Yedioth Ahronoth, 1990.
Meir, Golda. A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography. Edited by Marie Syrkin. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973.
Meir, Golda. My Life. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975.
Meir, Menachem. My Mother Golda Meir: A Son’s Evocation of Life With Golda Meir. New York: Arbor House, 1983.
Miller, Anita, Jordan Miller, and Sigalit Zetouni. Sharon: Israel’s Warrior-Politician. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2002.
Mirsky, Yehudah. Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.
Mitchell, Thomas G. Israel’s Security Men: The Arab-Fighting Political Careers of Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, and Ehud Barak. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 2015.
Mitchell, Thomas G. Likud Leaders: The Lives and Careers of Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 2015.
Naor, Mordechay. Tsemiḥato Shel Manhig: Pinḥas Sapir, 1930-1949. Tel Aviv: Papirus, 1987.
Netanyahu, Benjamin. A Durable Peace: Israel and Its Place Among the Nations. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2000.
Netanyahu, Benjamin. Fighting Terrorism. Second edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.
Netanyahu, Benzion. The Founding Fathers of Zionism. Lexington, OK: Balfour Books, 2012.
Nedava, Joseph. Vladimir Jabotinsky: The Man and His Struggles. Tel Aviv: Jabotinsky Institute of Israel, 1986.
Nordau, Anna, and Max Nordau. Max Nordau: A Biography. New York: Nordau Committee, 1943.
Nordau, Max. Degeneration. New York: D. Appleton, 1985.
Pearlman, Moshe. Ben-Gurion Looks Back. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965.
Peleg, Ilan. Begin’s Foreign Policy, 1977-1983: Israel’s Move to the Right. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Penslar, Derek. Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader. Yale University Press, 2020.
Peres, Shimon. Battling for Peace: Memoirs. Edited by David Landau. London: Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, 1995.
Peres, Shimon. No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel. New York: HarperCollins, 2017.
Peres, Shimon, and Robert Littell. For the Future of Israel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Peri, Yoram. The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Perlmutter, Amos. The Life and Times of Menachem Begin. New York: Doubleday and Co., 1987.
Pfeffer, Anshel. Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu. New York: Basic, 2018.
Polonski, Pinchas. Religious Zionism of Rav Kook. Seattle: CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2016.
Prittie, Terrence. Eshkol of Israel: The Man and the Nation. London: London Museum Press, 1969.
Rabin, Leah. Rabin: Our Life, His Legacy. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1997.
Rabin, Yitzhak. The Rabin Memoirs. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1979.
Rabinovich, Abraham. Teddy Kollek: Builder of Jerusalem. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1996.
Rabinovich, Itamar. Yitzhak Rabin: Solder, Leader, Statesman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017.
Rafael, Gideon. Destination Peace: Three Decades of Israeli Foreign Policy: A Personal Memoir. New York: Stein and Day, 1981.
Raphael, Marc L. Abba Hillel Silver: A Profile in American Judaism. Teaneck, NJ: Holmes and Meier Publishing, 1989.
Raz, Simcha. An Angel Among Men: Impressions From the Life of Rav Avraham Yitzhak Hakohen Kook z’’l. Translated by Moshe D. Lichtman. Jerusalem: Kol Mevaser, 2003.
Reinharz, Jehuda. Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Zionist Leader. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Rose, Herbert H. The Life and Thought of A.D. Gordon: Pioneer, Philosopher, and Prophet of Modern Israel. New York: Bloch Publishing, 1964.
Rosensaft, Menachem. Moshe Sharett: Statesman of Israel. New York: Shengold Publishing, 1966.
Ross, Dennis, and David Makovsky. Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny. PublicAffairs, 2019.
Rumley, Grant, and Amir Tibon. The Last Palestinian: The Rise and Reign of Mahmoud Abbas. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2017.
Ruppin, Arthur. Arthur Ruppin: Memoirs, Diaries, Letters. New York: Herzl Press, 1971.
Ruppin, Arthur. The Jews in the Modern World. New York: Macmillan, 1934.
Ruppin, Arthur. Three Decades of Palestine: Speeches and Papers on the Upbuilding of the Jewish National Homes. Jerusalem: Schocken, 1936.
Samia, Yom Tov. Leadership in Moments of Truth. Tel Aviv: Conṭenṭo, 2016.
Schechtman, Joseph B. The Life and Times of Vladimir Jabotinsky: Fighter and Prophet, the Last Years. Silver Spring, MD: Eshel Books, 1986.
Schechtman, Joseph B. Rebel and Statesman: The Vladimir Jabotinsky Story. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1956.
Schoeps, Julius H. Theodor Herzl and the Zionist Dream. London: Thams and Hudson, 1997.
Schwarze, Erika. Public Opinion and Political Response in Palestine: Leadership, Campaigns and Elections Since Arafat. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016.
Segev, Tom. A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Seidman, Hillel, and Mordecai Schreiber. Menachem Begin: His Life and Legacy. New York: Shengold Publishers, 1990.
Shalom, Zaki. Ben-Gurion’s Political Struggles, 1963-1967: A Lion in Winter. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
Shamir, Yitzhak. Summing Up: An Autobiography. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994.
Shapira, Anita. Berl: The Biography of a Socialist Zionist: Berl Katznelson 1887-1944. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Shapira, Anita. Yigal Allon, Native Son. Translated by Evelyn Abel. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Shapira, Anita. Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel. Translated by Anthony Berris. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.
Shapira, Yosef. Levi Eshkol on the Steps of the Mission. Tel Aviv: Masada Publishers, 1969.
Sharon, Ariel, and David Chanoff. Warrior: The Autobiography of Ariel Sharon. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
Sharon, Gilad. Sharon: The Life of a Leader. Translated by Mitch Ginsburg. New York: HarperCollins, 2011.
Sharett, Moshe. My Struggle for Peace: The Diary of Moshe Sharett, 1953-1954. Edited by Neil Caplan and Yaakov Sharett. Indiana University Press, 2019.
Sharett, Moshe. Sharett’s Diaries. Tel Aviv: Sifriyat Ma’ariv, 1978.
Sheffer, Gabriel. Moshe Sharett: Biography of a Political Moderate. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
Shepherd, Naomi. Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
Shepherd, Naomi. The Mayor and the Citadel: Teddy Kollek and Jerusalem. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
Shiff, Ofer. The Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014.
Shilon, Avi. Menachem Begin: A Life. Translated by Danielle Zilberberg and Yoram Sharett. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.
Shindler, Colin. Israel, Likud and the Zionist Dream: Power, Politics, and Ideology From Begin to Netanyahu. London and New York: Tauris, 1995.
Silberschlag, Eisig (ed.). Eliezer Ben-Yehuda: A Symposium in Oxford. Oxford: Oxford Center for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, 1981.
Silver, Eric. Begin: The Haunted Prophet. New York: Random House, 1984.
Simon, Leon. Ahad Ha’am, Asher Ginsberg: A Biography. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1960.
Simon, Merill. Moshe Arens, Scientist and Statesman, Speaks Out. London: Dean Books, 1988.
Siniver, Asaf. Abba Eban: A Biography. New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2015.
Slater, Robert. Golda: The Uncrowned Queen of Israel, a Pictorial Biography. New York: Jonathan David Publishers, 1981.
Slater, Robert. Rabin of Israel. London: Robson Books, 1977.
Slater, Robert. Rabin of Israel. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
Slater, Robert. Warrior Statesman: The Life of Moshe Dayan. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
Slater, Robert. Yitzhak Rabin: Twenty Years On. Glil Yam: Kotarim International Publishing, 2015.
Sofer, Sasson. Begin: An Anatomy of Leadership. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.
Sommer, Michael A. Ehud Olmert: Prime Minister of Israel. New York: Rosen Publishers, 2008.
Soviv, Aaron. Moshe Sharett: Pioneer and Statesman. New York: Jewish National Fund, 1967.
Sprinzak, Joseph, and Joseph Shapiro. Igrot Yosef Shprintsaḳ. Tel Aviv: ʻAyanot, 1965.
Stein, Kenneth. Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin, and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace. New York and London: Routledge, 1999.
Steinberg, Gerald M., and Ziv Rubinovitz. Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process: Between Ideology and Political Realism. Indiana University Press, 2019.
Syrkin, Marie. Golda Meir, Israel’s Leader. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1969.
St. John, Robert. Ben-Gurion: Builder of Israel. London: London Publishing, 1998.
St. John, Robert. Eban: One of the Most Respected and Influential Statesmen of the Twentieth Century. London: W.H. Allen, 1973.
Stavans, Ilan. Resurrecting Hebrew. New York: Schocken, 2008.
St. John, Robert. Tongue of the Prophets: The Life Story of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972.
Temko, Ned. To Win or to Die: A Personal Portrait of Menachem Begin. New York: William Morrow and Co., 1987.
Tevet, Shabtai. Ben-Gurion and the Holocaust. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1996.
Tevet, Shabtai. Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs: From Peace to War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Tevet, Shabtai. Ben-Gurion: The Burning Ground 1886-1948. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Tevet, Shabtai. Moshe Dayan: The Soldier, the Man, the Legend. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Troy, Gil. The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland — Then, Now, Tomorrow. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Van Creveld, Martin. Moshe Dayan. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004.
Weber, Shaul. Yitzhak Rabin: Growth of a Leader. Tel Aviv: Dekel Academic Press, 2013.
Weisgal, Meyer. Chaim Weizmann: Statesman, Scientist, Builder of the Jewish Commonwealth. New York: Dial Press, 1944.
Weizmann, Chaim. Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949.
Weizman, Ezer. On Eagles’ Wings: The Personal Story of the Leading Commander of the Israeli Air Force. New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1977.
Weizman, Ezer. The Battle for Peace. New York: Bantam Books, 1981.
Wolfe, Leon L. Abba Hillel Silver: Spokesman for Zion. New York: Jewish National Fund, 1974.
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World Zionist Organization. Levi Eshkol (1895-1969): Profile of a Zionist. New York: World Zionist Organization, 1969.
Yanai, Natan. Political Crises in Israel: The Ben-Gurion Period. Jerusalem: Keter, 1982.
Zipperstein, Steven J. Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha’am and the Origins of Zionism. London: Peter Halban, 1993.
Ziv, Guy. Why Hawks Become Doves: Shimon Peres and Foreign Policy Change in Israel. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2014.
Zweig, Ronald W. (ed.). David Ben-Gurion: Politics and Leadership in Israel. London: Cass, 1991.
Articles
Agha, Hussein, and Ahmad Samih Khalidi, “A Palestinian Reckoning: Time for a New Beginning,” Foreign Affairs 100, No. 2 (2021): 129-141.
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