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Award-winning storyteller Boaz Dvir’s “Saving Israel” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) follows the turbulent journey of World War II aviators who risked their lives and freedom in 1947-49 to prevent what they viewed as an imminent second Holocaust. The Washington Times book reviewer Joshua Sinai described this nonfiction book as a “fascinating and dramatic account filled with lots of new information about a crucially formative period.”

An assistant professor of journalism at Penn State University, Dvir wrote a chapter for “Homegrown in Florida” (University Press of Florida, 2012), an anthology edited by William McKeen that includes childhood stories by Michael Connelly, Carl Hiaasen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Tom Petty.

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The Partition Plan in Perspective

Seventy-three years ago Sunday, the UN voted to split Palestine between the Jews and the Arabs. Here is what I wrote in my new book, “Saving Israel” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), about the days leading up to this historical decision from the perspectives of members of a secret, illegal operation to provide the Jewish state with an air force and arms:

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