Michael Bar-Zohar
Michael Bar-Zohar | |
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Alignment | |
| 1991–1992 | Labor Party |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 January 1938 Sofia, Bulgaria |
Michael Bar-Zohar (
Biography
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Born in Bulgaria, Bar-Zohar immigrated to Israel in 1948. He attended High School Heh in Tel Aviv and went on to study economics and international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also studied at the Institute of Political Science in the University of Paris, where he earned a PhD.
He became science editor for Davar, a weekly newspaper in 1958, but left the job the following year. Between 1960 and 1964 he wrote for LaMerhav, an Israeli newspaper in Paris. In 1967 he became a spokesman for the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and later lectured at the University of Haifa between 1970 and 1973.
Political career
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Bar-Zohar became involved in politics in the 1960s, and joined Rafi upon its foundation in 1965. Rafi merged into the Alignment in 1968, forming formed the Labor Party faction, with Bar-Zohar becoming a Labor Party member, eventually joining its central committee.
He was first elected to the Knesset in the
Writings
In 1965 Bar-Zohar won the Sokolov Award for his achievements as a journalist.[citation needed] He published several books, including biographies of David Ben-Gurion and Shimon Peres, several books about the Israeli security organizations, and an account of the rescue of Bulgarian Jews from the Nazis in World War II.
Bar-Zohar's book Mossad: The Great Operations (המוסד - המבצעים הגדולים), published in 2010 with Nissim Mishal, was the subject of an investigation by the newspaper
Published works
ISBNs for the books listed. . (October 2023) |
- A Bridge Over the Mediterranean: Franco-Israeli Relations Between 1947-1964 (1964)
- Hunting for the German Scientists (1965)
- The Longest Month (1965)
- The Avengers (1968)
- The Paratroopers Book (1969)
- The Custodian: Isser Harel and the Adventures of the Shin Bet (1970)[5]
- Spies in the promised land Houghton Mifflin (1972) ISBN 978-0395136416
- The Third Truth Houghton Mifflin (1973) ISBN 0-02--043560-6as part of the Collier Spymaster Series.
- The Spy Who Died Twice Houghton Mifflin (1975) ISBN 0-395-19417-2
- Ben Gurion: a biography (centennial edition). New York: Adama Books, 1986 (c.1978). ISBN 0-915361-60-4(pbk)
- Beyond Hitler’s grasp: the heroic rescue of Bulgaria’s Jews. Holbrook, Mass.: Adams Media. 1998. ISBN 1-58062-060-4..
- The Quest for The Red Prince: The Israeli Hunt for PLO leader who masterminded the Olympic Games Massacre. By Michael Bar-Zohar and Eitan Haber. Includes black-and-white photographic plates which include Yasser Arafat, together with an index.[6]
- Dr. Michael Bar-Zohar and ISBN 1-59228-945-2
- Hitler's Jewish Spy: The Most Extraordinary True Spy Story of World War II Sidgwick & Jackson (1985) ISBN 978-0283992933. The biography of Paul Ernst Fackenheim
- Brothers (1993)
- Bitter Scent: The Case of ISBN 978-0-525-94068-5
- Shimon Peres The Biography (2006) ISBN 978-1-4000-6292-8
- Mossad: The Great Operations (2010, with Nissim Mishal)
References
- ^ Michael Bar-Zohar, HarperCollins
- ^ a b c d Ofer Matan (Nov 22, 2010). "Who really wrote the sagas of Israel's spies?". Haaretz.
- ^ a b c Maya Sela (Aug 26, 2013). "Israeli reporter, accused of badmouthing book on Mossad, sued for libel". Haaretz.
- ^ Maya Sela (November 22, 2013). "Mossad book sparks NIS 4 million lawsuit by journalist". Haaretz.
- ^ Knesset Member, Isser Harel
- ISBN 0-297-78063-8
External links
- Michael Bar-Zohar on the Knesset website
- Works by or about Michael Bar-Zohar at Internet Archive
