The Jewish state: Zionism’s success, not its failure
Today, the old romanticized image of Israel, shaped more by Exodus the film than by Exodus, the biblical book, no longer gets much of a hearing.
ISRAEL’S FIRST prime minister David Ben-Gurion (center) stands under a portrait depicting Theodore Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, as he reads Israel’s Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv May 14, 1948. (photo credit: REUTERS)ByDONNA ROBINSON DIVINE
