Shabtai Teveth (; 1925 – 1 November 2014) was an Israeli historian and author. Teveth was born in 1925 and grew up in the worker' quarters at the Migdal Tzedek

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, where his father worked, near

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. He began working as a journalist for the newspaper ''

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'' in 1950, eventually becoming its political correspondent. In 1981, he was appointed senior research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at

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. Following the publication of his research into the murder of

Haim Arlosoroff Haim Arlosoroff (23 February 1899 – 16 June 1933; also known as Chaim Arlozorov; ) was a Socialist Zionist leader of the Yishuv during the British Mandate for Palestine, prior to the establishment of Israel, and head of the Political D ...

, 1982, Menachim Begin - first Israeli Prime Minister elected from the Revisionist movement - ordered a Judicial Commission of Enquiry which concluded that Teveth was wrong to suggest the murder might have been carried out by two Revisionists. In his biography of

David Ben-Gurion David Ben-Gurion ( ; ; born David Grün; 16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary List of national founders, national founder and first Prime Minister of Israel, prime minister of the State of Israel. As head of the Jewish Agency ...

, Teveth argues that Ben-Gurion did not instigate a policy of

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. In 2005, Teveth was awarded the

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for "lifetime achievement and special contribution to society and the State."

Published works

* (English: ) An account of Israel's Armoured Corps during the 1967 war. * - Translated from Hebrew to English by Myra Bank (1970). * (English: ) * Two volumes. * * *''The Incarnations of Transfer in Zionist Thinking'' 1988. (Hebrew), Ha'aretz. * Charging Israel With Original Sin (www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/shabtai-teveth/charging-israel-with-original-sin/) * * * Two Volumes. Biography of David Ben-Gurion. *

Awards

* 1988:

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in the Israel category for ''Ben Gurion: The Burning Ground''

References

Israeli educators Israeli historians Jewish Israeli writers Israeli journalists Jewish historians 1925 births 2014 deaths Zionists Israel Prize in literature recipients {{Israel-historian-stub