Friendly Fire: Rethinking Israel’s Security

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What does Israel need to remain both secure and democratic? Few people have wrestled with that question from closer range than Ami Ayalon. Raised on a kibbutz, he went on to command Israel's elite naval commandos, lead the Israeli Navy, direct the Shin Bet, and serve in the Knesset, a career spent at the center of the country's security establishment. In his book, Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future , Ayalon turns that experience into a searching reckoning. Using his own life as a lens on Israel's history, he describes how a lifetime of patriotic service kept him from seeing the costs of policies he once carried out, and how listening to Israelis and Palestinians whose experiences differ sharply from his own changed his thin…

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