Book contents
- Israel’s Declaration of Independence
- Israel’s Declaration of Independence
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I The Setting
- Part II Political Theory
- Part III History
- 5 Diplomacy
- 6 Politics and Law
- 7 Natural and Historical Right
- Part IV Legacy
- Appendix: Address by Zalman Rubashov (Shazar) to the Zionist Actions Committee, April 12, 1948
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - Diplomacy
Moshe Shertok’s Draft
from Part III - History
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 December 2022
- Israel’s Declaration of Independence
- Israel’s Declaration of Independence
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I The Setting
- Part II Political Theory
- Part III History
- 5 Diplomacy
- 6 Politics and Law
- 7 Natural and Historical Right
- Part IV Legacy
- Appendix: Address by Zalman Rubashov (Shazar) to the Zionist Actions Committee, April 12, 1948
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
It was late at night on May 11, 1948, when a rumpled Moshe Shertok (later Sharett) stepped off a small aircraft, likely a well-worn six-seater, accompanied by his daughter Yael, then 17. The slender and unassuming Shertok had just flown to Tel Aviv from New York. There had been stops for refueling along the way, some political business in Paris, and finally a connection in Athens where he was picked up by one of the Yishuv’s very few functioning aircraft for a bumpy, dangerous plane ride at low altitude across the Eastern Mediterranean. After this exhausting ordeal, Shertok, probably without a shower or change of clothes, was whisked to a meeting with the “Old Man.”
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- Israel's Declaration of IndependenceThe History and Political Theory of the Nation's Founding Moment, pp. 139 - 166Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022