By Idith Zertal

In a publication bound to generate controversy and debate, Idith Zertal boldly translates a far respected bankruptcy in modern Jewish and Zionist background: the clandestine immigration to Palestine of Jewish refugees, such a lot of them Holocaust survivors, that was once equipped by means of Palestinian Zionists simply after global struggle II. occasions that captured the eye of the realm, corresponding to the Exodus affair in the summertime 1947, are obvious right here in a strikingly new gentle. on the middle of Zertal's publication is the Mossad, a small, unorthodox Zionist association whose project starting in 1938 was once to convey Jews to Palestine in order to subvert the British quotas on Jewish immigration. From disaster to continual scrutinizes the Mossad's mode of operation, its ideology and politics, its constitution and background, and its collective human profile as by no means sooner than. Zertal's relocating tale sweeps throughout 4 continents and contains a diversity of political cultures and foreign forces. yet beneath this tale one other darker and extra advanced plot unfolds: the exact stumble upon among the Zionist innovative collective and the mass of Jewish remnant after the Holocaust. in response to Zertal, this psychologically painful but politically robust come across was once the Zionists' most efficient weapon of their fight for a sovereign Jewish country. Drawing on basic archival records and new readings of canonical texts of the interval, she analyzes this come upon from all anglespolitical, social, cultural, and mental. the result is a gripping and troubling human tale of a vital interval in Jewish and Israeli background, one that still offers a key to realizing the elemental tensions among Israel and the Jewish groups and Israel and the area at the present time.