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Impossible takes longer : 75 years after its creation, has Israel fulfilled its founders' dreams? / Daniel Gordis.

by Gordis, Daniel.

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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Palestinian Arabs -- Politics and government.

Israel -- History -- Declaration of Independence, 1948.

Israel -- History.

9780063239449 (hc.)

xxxvii, 345 p. : ill., portraits, photographs, facsimilies ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-327) and index.

"In 1948, Israel's founders had much more in mind than the creation of a state. They sought not mere sovereignty but also a 'national home for the Jewish people,' where Jewish life would be transformed. Did they succeed? The state they made, says Daniel Gordis, is a place of extraordinary success and maddening disappointment, a story of both unprecedented human triumph and great suffering. Now, as the country marks its seventy-fifth anniversary, Gordis asks: Has Israel fulfilled the dreams of its founders? Using Israel's Declaration of Independence as his measure, Gordis provides a thorough, balanced perspective on how the Israel of today exceeds the country's original aspirations and how it has fallen short."--From publisher.

Daniel Gordis is the Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College -- Israel’s first liberal arts college -- which he helped found in 2007. The author of numerous books on Jewish thought and political currents in Israel, he has twice won the National Jewish Book Award, including the prize for Book of the Year for Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn. Raised and educated in the United States, he has been living in Jerusalem since 1998.

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