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Pure chutzpah: the breathtaking daring of Operation Moses

29 February 2020

9:00 AM

29 February 2020

9:00 AM

Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad’s Fake Diving Resort Raffi Berg

Icon, pp.324, £16.99

Menachem Begin was Israel’s most reviled and misunderstood prime minister. Reviled by Britain for his paramilitary activities against the British Army in Palestine, Begin was a keen admirer of the Westminster parliamentary system and English common law. Reviled by Jimmy Carter as a hawk who refused to cede an inch of territory, this ultra-nationalist signed the peace treaty with Egypt that returned the Sinai.

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