Ken Stein
Coincidently during the month of November, occurring over a 60-year period, four important benchmarks were passed in Zionist history and the Jewish quest for statehood and recognition: the 1917 Balfour Declaration, 1947 U.N. partition resolution, 1967 U.N. Resolution 242 and Menachem Begin’s 1977 Knesset speech responding to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s historic visit to Jerusalem. Reading the documents and their contextual introductions provides an easy and comprehensive perspective to Israel’s modern history.
