Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel, by Dan Ephron
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Winner of the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History and a New York Times Notable Book of 2015. A riveting story about the murder that changed a nation: the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin remains the single most consequential event in Israel’s recent history, and one that fundamentally altered the trajectory for both Israel and the Palestinians. Killing a King relates the parallel stories of Rabin and his stalker, Yigal Amir, over the two years leading up to the assassination, as one of them planned political deals he hoped would lead to peace, and the other plotted murder.
Dan Ephron, who reported from the Middle East for much of the past two decades, covered both the rally where Rabin was killed and the subsequent murder trial. He describes how Rabin, a former general who led the army in the Six-Day War of 1967, embraced his nemesis, Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, and set about trying to resolve the twentieth century’s most vexing conflict. He recounts in agonizing detail how extremists on both sides undermined the peace process with ghastly violence. And he reconstructs the relentless scheming of Amir, a twenty-five-year-old law student and Jewish extremist who believed that Rabin’s peace effort amounted to a betrayal of Israel and the Jewish people. As Amir stalked Rabin over many months, the agency charged with safeguarding the Israeli leader missed key clues, overlooked intelligence reports, and then failed to protect him at the critical moment, exactly twenty years ago. It was the biggest security blunder in the agency’s history.
Through the prism of the assassination, much about Israel today comes into focus, from the paralysis in peacemaking to the fraught relationship between current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama. Based on Israeli police reports, interviews, confessions, and the cooperation of both Rabin’s and Amir’s families, Killing a King is a tightly coiled narrative that reaches an inevitable, shattering conclusion. One can’t help but wonder what Israel would look like today had Rabin lived.
16 pages of illustrations Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel, by Dan Ephron- Amazon Sales Rank: #53531 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.60" h x 1.10" w x 6.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 304 pages
Review “An illuminating version of the story…admirably concise and meticulously reported.” (A. O. Scott - New York Times)“Exceptional…an electrifying political narrative twinned with an old-fashioned crime story―of the sort that ought to be taught in journalism schools for its restraint, pacing and expert creation of suspense…. The book is a Greek tragedy told in split screen, a frame-for-frame chronicle of a deplorable death foretold…. This tragedy ends, as so many do, with pride, suffering and fear on terrible display. It’s the flickering reel of fateful choices and desperate last moments that I’ll remember most.” (Jennifer Senior - New York Times)“Incisive…. In a crisp and lively narrative, Ephron walks the reader through the assassination itself and its aftermath…[and] infuses his book with relevance by circling back to bigger questions.” (Ilene Prusher - New York Times Book Review)“A clear-eyed account…captures the way politics in this young and tiny country are uniquely and deeply personal.” (The Economist)“Striking…if the story of Yitzhak Rabin and Yigal Amir has anything to teach, it’s that individuals matter…. The opportunity that Rabin was trying to seize―however small―was there for a moment, and it may never come again.” (Dexter Filkins - The New Yorker)“Carefully reported, clearly presented, concise and gripping…a reminder that what happened on a Tel Aviv sidewalk 20 years ago is as important to understanding Israel as any of its wars.” (Matti Friedman - The Washington Post)“Vividly written and sharply insightful, Killing a King is an important and valuable addition to our understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” (Adam Lebor - Literary Review)“Riveting.” (Ian Black - The Guardian)“An authoritative narrative that will serve as a valuable record of history. It is also a page-turner…practically every page carries the tense energy of fresh insight.” (David K. Shipler - Moment)“Stunning…a chilling reminder that sometimes an assassin’s bullet really can alter the course of history. By unearthing previously confidential police and court records, Ephron gives us the definitive account of a fatal turning point for Israel. Killing a King is thorough, even-handed, and absolutely authoritative.” (Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, and author of The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames)“The killing of Yitzhak Rabin by a Jewish fanatic helped derail the promising but fragile Middle East peace process and plunged Israelis and Palestinians into a nightmarish era of political violence and recrimination that haunts them still. In Killing a King Ephron digs up important details that give new understanding to those terrible events and their enduring impact. His authoritative account is both a sharply etched political thriller and a meditation on all that has gone wrong in the Promised Land.” (Glenn Frankel, former Jerusalem bureau chief for the Washington Post and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting)“With remarkable reporting, Dan Ephron has written an epic story, honestly and skillfully. Killing a King is not just about Israel’s past. It’s also an important read for anyone who wishes to truly understand the country’s disturbing present and unsettling future.” (Etgar Keret, author of The Seven Good Years: A Memoir)
About the Author An award-winning writer, Dan Ephron has served as the Jerusalem bureau chief for Newsweek and the Daily Beast and now lives in New York City.
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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful. Insightful...Well written...Amazing book By Amazon Customer Amazing insight into Israeli politics and the larger Middle East dynamics. I appreciate Dan Ephron's efforts to explain the assassin's side of the story so that we might better understand his motivations for carrying out such a heinous act. I've always wondered about the missed opportunities for a lasting peace in the region because of Rabin's murder but could not imagine how precarious the situation was until I finished reading this book. Policy makers should read this book. Israel supporters should read this book. Palestine supporters should read this book. Anyone that wants to understand the complexity of why peace is so elusive in the region should read this book. You will not be disappointed.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. A terrific read By A.I. 8706 This is a pretty remarkable piece of journalism and, perhaps only somewhat intentionally, political commentary. The journalistic part is fairly straightforward-- Ephron covers Rabin's later years, including the peace process, in an engaging if unremarkable way, while in parallel providing a window into the mind of his murderer, the religious right winger Yigal Amir.But what the book really does most interestingly is frame the politics of the event and its lasting impact. The peace process between Israelis and Palestinians is typically framed as a struggle between the interests of Israelis and Palestinians, and there's certainly some of that-- Rabin and Arafat each represented entrenched interests in a dispute over conflicted territory. But Ephron brilliantly highlights the other dimension of the conflict-- the Messianic religious conflict that underlies the political conflict and makes it so intractable.In this conflict, you can place the players into two categories-- there are the practical political players, who have a vision for what their region should look like, and have core and peripheral interests. They are willing to bargain over all of the peripheral interests, and potentially cede particular core interests so long as their rivals are willing to cede claims to other conflicting core interests. Rabin certainly belonged to this camp, and both Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas did and do as well, albeit on opposite sides. Then there are the messianists-- some (though not all) of Hamas certainly belongs, as do other religious Muslim Arab groups, but so equally do settler groups and the right-wingers who sympathize with them, such as the Amirs, the right-wing rabbis who provided the religious justification for Rabin's murder, and others. It is this group that hijacks the possibility of conciliation.Left to their own devices, Rabin and Arafat could and likely would have come to an agreement for peace and security-- Israeli pragmatists made similar agreements with the Egyptians and the Jordanians, and Arafat was politically and ideologically quite similar to a Sadat or a Hussein (of Jordan). But peace talks between the two were tenuous, due to their opposition by an unholy alliance between radical Jews and radical Muslims that undermined any possibility of trust. Any time a seeming breakthrough would come, Hamas suicide bombers would blow up a bus in Tel Aviv, or settler militants would shoot up Palestinians on the street or at prayer. Ordinary Israelis would see this as proof that they couldn't bargain with these people, and ordinary Palestinians would see it as proof that Israelis saw them as sub-human. The attacks would drive people into extremist camps-- to Hamas for Palestinians and to racist right-wing parties for Israelis.Which, ultimately, is what this book does so brilliantly-- it highlights a process that, heartbreakingly, leads people not to reject the extremists, the racists and the nationalists on their own side, but to entrench themselves into hardened political shells, refusing any possibility of compromise with their counterparts. As a reader, the book draws this success on an emotional level-- while wishing that Yigal Amir rots in prison and then in hell for his cowardly act of murder, one has no choice but to concede that he succeeded in his political goal. Peace is further apart than it's ever been, and it's a real tragedy.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Incisive, riveting By Jonathan Weiler in NC Killing a King is a riveting, incisive and agonizing account of an assassination of historic import. Ephron is both a gifted storyteller and has an eye for the larger historical context within which he tells his tale. Ephron masterfully reconstructs both the sense of optimism and the air of foreboding that hung over Israeli society in 1994 and 1995. And appropriately, he gives due attention to the extraordinarily frustrating missteps that Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin's successor, made in the aftermath of Rabin's murder - missteps that themselves had profound consequences for the viability of the negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders on a long-term settlement.
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