Palestine to Israel - Mandate to State, 1945-1948 ― Rebellion Launched, 1945-1946

Seventy years after the creation of the State of Israel, Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 offers the definitive narrative of the achievement of Jewish sovereignty in the beleaguered Promised Land. Professor Monty Noam Penkower explores developments in Palestine and in the Arab states, including how the Palestine quagmire became a pawn in inter-Arab feuds; British and American responses both official and public; the role of Holocaust survivors; the context of the Cold War; and the saga as it unfolded in the corridors of the United Nations. Joining extensive archival research to a lucid prose, the two volumes offer a riveting conclusion to his Palestine in Turmoil and Decision on Palestine Deferred.

Monty Noam Penkower is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem. Palestine to Israel: Mandate to State, 1945-1948 completes his trilogy on the rise of the State of Israel, preceded by Palestine in Turmoil: The Struggle for Sovereignty, 1933-1939 and Decision on Palestine Deferred: America, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy, 1939-1945.