Readers of The Gavriel Tirosh Affair will find that the book increases their understanding of the history of the reestablishment of the State of Israel in 1948, why despite the multiple advantages the small Jewish population in Palestine in the 1930s gave to the Arab population the Arabs could not accept Jews in the country, and why the British assumption of control of Palestine from 1936 to 1939 forced the Jewish populations at that time to be passive while the Arabs were murdering Jews.

Most significantly, while the book deals with Palestine in the 1930s and the violent attacks by the Arabs in 1929 and 1936-1939, and........

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