About the author: Menachem Begin was the sixth prime minister of Israel.
Michael Doran is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at Hudson Institute. The author of
Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East (2016), he is also a former deputy assistant secretary of defense and a former senior director of the National Security Council. He tweets @
doranimated.
Neil Rogachevsky teaches at the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University and is the author of
Israel’s Declaration of Independence: The History and Political Theory of the Nation’s Founding Moment, published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press.