Heroes and hustlers, hard hats and holy men

inside the New Israel

by Zeʼev Chafets, Ze'Ev Chafets

1986 249 pages eng

Since its dramatic birth, Israel has excited the imagination of the Western World. In the process it has yielded some enduring prototypes--the pure-hearted pioneer turning the desert into a garden; the intellectual citizen-soldier with a chessboard in his kit bag and Haydn playing on the transistor …