Missing the Man Who Told the Truth about Israel’s History

Shabtai Teveth—Israeli journalist, prolific historian, and biographer of David Ben-Gurion—passed away last November. Martin Kramer writes that Teveth “knew the flaws of Israel’s founders perfectly well, but never let that overshadow the nobility of their cause.” He was also a fierce critic of Israel’s “new historians,” who sought to prove that the state was founded through a series of crimes and atrocities.