Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and one of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of the Year.
The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin remains the single most consequential event in Israel's recent history, and one that fundamentally altered the trajectory for both Israel and the Palestinians. In Killing a King, Dan Ephron relates the parallel stories of Rabin and his stalker, Yigal Amir, over the two years leading up to the assassination, as one of them planned political deals he hoped would lead to peace, and the other plotted murder. "Carefully reported, clearly presented, concise and gripping," It stands as "a reminder that what happened on a Tel Aviv sidewalk 20 years ago is as important to understanding Israel as any of its wars" (Matti Friedman, The Washington Post).
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Dan Ephron. (2015). Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel. W. W. Norton & Company.
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and one of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of the Year.
The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin remains the single most consequential event in Israel's recent history, and one that fundamentally altered the trajectory for both Israel and the Palestinians. In Killing a King, Dan Ephron relates the parallel stories of Rabin and his stalker, Yigal Amir, over the two years leading up to the assassination, as one of them planned political deals he hoped would lead to peace, and the other plotted murder. "Carefully reported, clearly presented, concise and gripping," It stands as "a reminder that what happened on a Tel Aviv sidewalk 20 years ago is as important to understanding Israel as any of its wars" (Matti Friedman, The Washington Post).
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and one of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of the Year.
The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin remains the single most consequential event in Israel's recent history, and one that fundamentally altered the trajectory for both Israel and the Palestinians. In Killing a King, Dan Ephron relates the parallel stories of Rabin and his stalker, Yigal Amir, over the two years leading up to the assassination, as one of them planned political deals he hoped would lead to peace, and the other plotted murder. "Carefully reported, clearly presented, concise and gripping," It stands as "a reminder that what happened on a Tel Aviv sidewalk 20 years ago is as important to understanding Israel as any of its wars" (Matti Friedman, The Washington Post).
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- source: Jennifer Senior;New York Times
- content: Exceptional...an electrifying political narrative twinned with an old-fashioned crime story—of the sort that ought to be taught in journalism schools for its restraint, pacing and expert creation of suspense.... The book is a Greek tragedy told in split screen, a frame-for-frame chronicle of a deplorable death foretold.... This tragedy ends, as so many do, with pride, suffering and fear on terrible display. It's the flickering reel of fateful choices and desperate last moments that I'll remember most.
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- source: Ilene Prusher;New York Times Book Review
- content: Incisive.... In a crisp and lively narrative, Ephron walks the reader through the assassination itself and its aftermath...[and] infuses his book with relevance by circling back to bigger questions.
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- content: A clear-eyed account...captures the way politics in this young and tiny country are uniquely and deeply personal.
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- source: Dexter Filkins;The New Yorker
- content: Striking...if the story of Yitzhak Rabin and Yigal Amir has anything to teach, it's that individuals matter.... The opportunity that Rabin was trying to seize—however small—was there for a moment, and it may never come again.
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- source: Matti Friedman;Washington Post
- content: Carefully reported, clearly presented, concise and gripping...a reminder that what happened on a Tel Aviv sidewalk 20 years ago is as important to understanding Israel as any of its wars.
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- content: Vividly written and sharply insightful, Killing a King is an important and valuable addition to our understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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- source: David K. Shipler;Moment
- content: An authoritative narrative that will serve as a valuable record of history. It is also a page-turner...practically every page carries the tense energy of fresh insight.
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- source: Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, and author of The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
- content: Stunning...a chilling reminder that sometimes an assassin's bullet really can alter the course of history. By unearthing previously confidential police and court records, Ephron gives us the definitive account of a fatal turning point for Israel. Killing a King is thorough, even-handed, and absolutely authoritative.
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- source: Glenn Frankel, former Jerusalem bureau chief for the Washington Post and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting
- content: Both a sharply etched political thriller and a meditation on all that has gone wrong in the Promised Land.
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- source: Etgar Keret, author of The Seven Good Years: A Memoir
- content: With remarkable reporting, Dan Ephron has written an epic story, honestly and skillfully. Killing a King is not just about Israel's past. It's also an important read for anyone who wishes to truly understand the country's disturbing present and unsettling future.
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August 10, 2015
Journalist Ephron, former Jerusalem bureau chief of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, relates the major events leading to the November 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in this clearly written, well-paced book. He tracks the activities and thoughts of both Rabin and assassin Yigal Amir, including such important ancillary matters as the rivalry between Rabin and then-foreign-minister Shimon Peres, as well as the increasingly vitriolic antigovernment rhetoric of the Israeli religious right; for example, following the signing and implementation of the Oslo Accords with the Palestine Liberation Organization, Rabbi Eliezer Waldman accused the government of collaborating with the Arabs. Ephron addresses the assassination’s political repercussions and introduces readers to the colorful, somewhat mysterious figure of Avishai Raviv, an agent of the Shin Bet (the Israeli Security Agency) who was also a perpetrator of anti-Palestinian acts of terror. Amir never expressed remorse for the murder, and today “fully a quarter of Israelis” believe his prison sentence should be commuted. In contrast, Dalia Rabin, the late prime minister’s daughter, told Ephron, “I don’t feel I’m part of what most people in this country are willing to do.” Ephron’s book is the best account to date of the Rabin assassination and its aftermath. Illus.
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September 15, 2015
Ephron, Newsweek's Jerusalem bureau chief, tells two stories in page-turning detail: the journey of Yitzhak Rabin (1922-95), Israel's first native-born prime minister, on a peace process with Arab neighbors; and how that action incited a young ultra-Orthodox Israeli man to stalk and assassinate Rabin. Rabin's military credentials uniquely qualified him to pragmatically pursue negotiations that involved exchanging disputed land. This possibility inflamed the Israeli right, with the implicit approval of some rabbis and politicians, to the point at which Rabin was considered by some a traitor who deserved to die. Astonishingly, the assassin followed Rabin for two years, staying beneath the radar of the preeminent Israeli security services. With extensive documentation, Ephron re-creates how Rabin sought lasting security for Israel and the killer went after Rabin. The author makes a strong case that one extremist who thought he was obeying a higher law irrevocably changed the course of the Mideast peace process for the worse. VERDICT Fascinating characterizations of real people and intrigue make this book appealing to readers of both fiction and nonfiction thrillers and anyone interested in the history of Israel.--Laurie Unger Skinner, Coll. of Lake Cty., Waukegan, IL
Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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