Hirsh Goodman

Let me create a paradise

Hirsh Goodman was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 1946. Goodman immigrated to Israel in 1965 and since 1971 has been a journalist, starting as the military reporter for the Jerusalem Post and later he was editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report. Hirsh Goodman has been a contributing editor to U.S. News & World Report, a contributor to the New Republic, and a news analyst for CBS News. Hirsh Goodman is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. Goodman is married, has four children and lives in Jerusalem.

Born in South Africa

Hirsh Goodman was born in Apartheid-era South Africa where as a child he and his friends marched off to Zionist Socialist meetings, full of rhetoric about equality, justice, and democracy - all within the context of Israel. Increasingly unwilling to tolerate the racism and anti-Semitism of his home, Goodman immigrated to Israel in his teenage years.

Israel's subsequent troubles

Hirsh Goodman was full of wide-eyed hope, optimism, and pride, feelings he hadn't known in South Africa, never expecting that the promised land of his dreams could also be riven by ethnic and religious conflict. It was after marching victoriously through the Sinai as a paratrooper in the Six-Day War that Goodman heard David Ben-Gurion on the radio warning that Israel must rid itself of its Arab territories lest it become an Apartheid state, a warning that had a very specific meaning to the young soldier. Hirsh Goodman spent thirty years witnessing first-hand all of Israel's subsequent troubles, from frontlines, to occupied zones, to the summits that attempted to find some lasting, or even temporary, peace.

Hirsh Goodman shares what he has seen

Now, in this memoir, Hirsh Goodman shares what he has seen, what he has learned, and some tough conclusions that he has reached: that Israel is imperiled as a Jewish democratic state if it, along with the Palestinians, continues on its present course.

Let me create a paradise

Let me create a paradise, God said to himself: A childhood in South Africa and a life in Israel by Hirsh Goodman
ISBN: 1586482432

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