May/June — 2008

Volume LIV No. 3

ISRAEL AT SIXTY 2 Israel at Sixty: Reminiscences and Reflections Elie Wiesel, Itamar Rabinovich, Edward I. Koch, Phyllis Chesler, Ram Belinkov, Vera Stern, Leo Haber 9 Dialogues in Hell: Zionism and Its Double • Robert Solomon Wistrich 14 Moshe Sharett (and David Ben-Gurion); or, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dove • Haim Chertok 24 Gold Meir: 1946-1949 Ben-Gurion’s “Best Man in the Cabinet” • Cecil Bloom 29 Menachem Begin Sixty Years Ago (1948 Interview) • S. L. Schneiderman 33 The Institution of President of the State of Israel • Asher Maoz ISRAEL AT SIXTY: THE WAR(S) OF INDEPENDENCE 37 New Yorkers Who Fought for the Independence of Zion • Rafael Medoff 41 A Volunteer’s Memoir Israel’s Three Wars of Independence • David Gutmann 46 “Bomb-Chuckers” • Eliezer Ayal ISRAEL AT SIXTY: THEODOR HERZL 48 Herzl’s Altneuland: A Jewish Novel? • Joseph Lowin ISRAEL AT SIXTY: POETRY 23 Two Poems by Dan Pagis (1930-1986) (translated from the Hebrew by Sharon M. Green) Europe, Late / Pointless Return • Dan Pagis 32 Dust of Jerusalem • Charles Adés Fishman 47 Soldier Son • Dina Yehuda 52 Theodor Herzl Dreams of Zion • Leo Haber 56 A Villanelle on Yom Ha-Atzma’ut, The Fifth of Iyar, 5708 (May 14, 1948) • Yakov Azriel 60 A Song for Israel at Sixty • Kate Watkins Furman 62 Geology Lesson (translated from the Hebrew by Cindy Eisner) • Elisha Porat MIDRASH 53 The Ten Commandments in the Book of Deuteronomy (in honor of Shavuot) • Philip Stern FICTION 57 Lost in Translation • Larry Lefkowitz BOOKS AND AUTHORS 61 Churchill and Zionism (a review of a book by Michael Burleigh) • David Rodman COVER ART BY DORIT TABAK