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Tables of Contents for A History of Israel
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Maps
x
Preface
xi
The Road to Statehood, 1897--1947
1
43
Theodor Herzl
1
6
Eretz Yisrael
7
6
Palestine in the First World War
13
5
The post-war period
18
3
The British Mandate
21
6
The Arab Rebellion, 1936--39
27
6
Palestine in the Second World War
33
4
Turning on the British
37
2
Partition and civil war
39
5
The Birth of Israel, 1948--1949
44
26
Friday, 14 May 1948
44
3
War
47
12
End of war and the emergence of a democracy
59
11
Years of Consolidation, 1950--1966
70
34
Mass immigration
70
1
Communal problems
71
4
The economy in crisis
75
4
Tensions along the borders
79
2
New leadership
81
5
The politicization of the Holocaust
86
2
The 1956 Kadesh campaign and after
88
5
Domestic issues
93
2
The Lavon Affair
95
3
Germany again
98
2
Enter Levy Eshkol
100
4
The Six-Day War and Afterwards, 1967--1973
104
35
Descent to war
104
6
The waiting period
110
6
Six days of war
116
7
The new society
123
2
Snail's pace diplomacy
125
4
Enter Golda Meir
129
1
War of attrition
130
4
Golda and Anwar el-Sadat
134
2
Terrorism, immigration and riots
136
3
Yom Kippur War and the Death of Labour, 1973--1977
139
29
Sadat prepares war
139
3
Israel stumbles into the trap
142
9
Invasion
151
3
Fighting back
154
2
Post-war: society and diplomacy
156
1
The Agranat report
157
2
Enter Yitzhak Rabin
159
6
Enter Shimon Peres
165
3
Begin's Years, 1977--1983
168
37
Building a coalition
168
2
First steps to peace
170
6
The home front
176
7
Camp David and after
183
8
`Tamuz 1'
191
3
A second Likud government
194
2
War in Lebanon
196
9
The Road to Peace, 1983--1991
205
31
Enter Yitzhak Shamir
205
3
Working Together
208
7
Intifada
215
6
Immigration and death of the coalition
221
6
War and immigration
227
3
The road to peace
230
2
The Madrid Peace Conference
232
4
Peace and War, 1992 to Present
236
51
Enter Yitzhak Rabin
236
18
Enter Benjamin Netanyahu
254
7
Enter Ehud Barak
261
16
Enter Ariel Sharon
277
10
Appendix 1: The Dayan el-Tohami Protocol, 1977
287
4
Appendix 2: Draft Declaration of Principles, Israel--Syria, 1992
291
4
Notes
295
7
Further Reading
302
6
Index
308