Ben-Gurion's Spy: The Story of the Political Scandal That Shaped Modern Israel

By Shabtai Teveth

In the early 1950s, a group of ill-trained Israeli agents staged a series of disaterous bombings of American and British institutions in Egypt, in an attempt to forestall Britain's final withdrawal drom the Suez. When the plot was revealed in 1955, defense minister Pinhas Lavon - Ben Gurion's handpicked sucessor - was foreced to resign.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231104642
• ISBN13: 9780231104647
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher