Ruth dayan raymonda tawil biography

  • An Improbable Friendship is the dual biography of Israeli Ruth Dayan, now ninety-eight, who was Moshe Dayan's wife for thirty-seven years, and Palestinian.
  • Marketed as a chronicle of the friendship between Ruth Dayan, the first wife of Israel's iconoclastic war hero Moshe Dayan, and Raymonda Tawil, a Palestinian.
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    &#;An Improbable Friendship: The Remarkable Lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and Their Forty-Year Peace Mission,&#; by Anthony David

    The friendship between Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil — deep, decades-long, not-afraid-to-be-contentious — defied national taboos.

    They are powerful in their own right, despite being related bygd marriage to men whose fame eclipsed their own: Ruth Dayan was the wife (and then ex-wife) of the late, iconic Israeli General Moshe Dayan and Raymonda Tawil was mother-in-law to the PLO’s late chairman Yassir Arafat. Each of these women is a passionate and indefatigable advokat for her own people — and also for recognizing others’ humanity. Still going strong at 98 and 75, respectively, the two friends invited historian Anthony David, author of several scholarly books about Jewish history in europe and about the mittpunkt East, to write their dual biography: An Improbable Friendship: The Remarkable Lives of Ruth D

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    An Improbable Friendship: The Remarkable Lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda | Jewish Book Council

    Mar­ket­ed as a chron­i­cle of the friend­ship between Ruth Dayan, the first wife of Israel’s icon­o­clas­tic war hero Moshe Dayan, and Ray­mon­da Taw­il, a Pales­tin­ian leader in her own right who end­ed up becom­ing Arafat’s moth­er-in-law, An Improb­a­ble Friend­ship does not deliv­er. Giv­en its high­ly per­son­able intro­duc­tion, involv­ing Skype ses­sions with these two feisty old­er women — Ruth in Tel Aviv and Ray­mon­da in Mal­ta — the read­er won­ders how they became and remained friends. That ques­tion, how­ev­er, is nev­er answered.

    Instead, the book is a dual biog­ra­phy. The read­er is put on a high-speed train through the his­to­ry of the Israeli-Pales­tin­ian con­flict, look­ing main­ly out the win­dow of the Pales­tin­ian side. The ear­ly days when Jews and Arabs lived togeth­er in British Man­date Pales­tine is paint­ed in id

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    An Improbable Friendship: The Story of Ruth Dayan and Raymonda Tawil and Their Year Mission of Peace: The story of Yasser Arafat's mother-in-law, general and their year mission of peace - Hardcover

    An Improbable Freindship. The story of Yasser Arafat's mother-in-law, the wife of Israel's top general and their forty-year mission of peace

    David, Anthony

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    Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Uri Avnery (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly rubbed, not price clipped (�), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. pp, illustrated. 'An Improbable Friendship' is the dual biography of Israeli Ruth Dayan, now ninety seven, who was Moshe Dayan's wife for thirty sev