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Benny Morris

Benny Morris is an Israeli historian and the author, most recently, of Sidney Reilly: Master Spy (Yale 2022).

  • Locals watch the bombing of Gaza from a hill in the town of Sderot, overlooking Gaza, 2014
    Locals watch the bombing of Gaza from a hill in the town of Sderot, overlooking Gaza, 2014
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    Gaza in the Minds of Israelis

    A new collection of essays, published just before October 7th, captures the complexity of the current war

    byBenny Morris
  • Christian and Jewish merchants at Basra, Iraq, 1891
    Christian and Jewish merchants at Basra, Iraq, 1891
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    Avi Shlaim’s Fantasy Land

    In ‘Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew,’ his autobiography-cum-history of Iraqi Jewry, historian Avi Shlaim’s life unfolds like a fairy tale

    byBenny Morris
  • Kibbutz Kfar Etzion, April, 2008.(MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)
    Kibbutz Kfar Etzion, April, 2008.(MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Before the Kidnappings, There Was a Massacre

    How the national trauma of Kfar Etzion helped bring Israeli Yeshiva boys to the West Bank

    byBenny Morris
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    Ariel Sharon: 1928-2014

    One of Israel’s legendary military commanders and most influential politicians leaves a legacy that was nearly great

    byBenny Morris
  • Top: Levi Eshkol and Moshe Dayan touring the West Bank in September 1967. Bottom: Benjamin Netanyahu and Shaul Mofaz during a joint press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 8, 2012.(Top Israel National Photo Collection; bottom Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images)
    Top: Levi Eshkol and Moshe Dayan touring the West Bank in September 1967. Bottom: Benjamin Netanyahu and Shaul Mofaz during a joint press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 8, 2012.(Top Israel National Photo Collection; bottom Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images)
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    1967 All Over Again?

    Israel’s new coalition echoes the unity government that came together on the eve of the Six Day War

    byBenny Morris
  • A boy stands behind a screen covering his family's garden damaged during the war in the El-Atatra district of Gaza, January 2009.(Magnum Photos.)
    A boy stands behind a screen covering his family's garden damaged during the war in the El-Atatra district of Gaza, January 2009.(Magnum Photos.)
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    Bleak House

    The prospects for a Palestinian state have rarely been more grim

    byBenny Morris
  • Shimon Peres in his Jerusalem residence earlier this year.(Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)
    Shimon Peres in his Jerusalem residence earlier this year.(Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Making History

    Israeli President Shimon Peres reflects on his mentor, his peace partner, and whether the State of Israel will survive

    byBenny Morris
  • Jewish residents of Hebron brandish toy guns at a reading of the megillah, 2005.(Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images)
    Jewish residents of Hebron brandish toy guns at a reading of the megillah, 2005.(Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Up in Arms

    A new book offers a history of Jewish terrorism in Israel from the Maccabees to the present

    byBenny Morris
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