Former Jerusalem bureau chief for Newsweek and the Daily Beast, Dan Ephron, analyzes the single most consequential event in Israel’s recent history in Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel (W.W. Norton). 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. 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.
