My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of IsraelAn authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit charts the development of the Israeli state through a captivating and often poignant lens. Not since Thomas Friedman's groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as this