Israel Since the Six-Day WarLeslie Stein was educated at the London School of Economics, and was associate professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia until his recent retirement. He is the author of The Hope Fulfilled: The Rise of Modern Israel and The Making of Modern Israel, 1948 1967. He served as the editor of Praeger Presss series on Israeli and Jewish Studies in 2003 6, and has been an academic visitor to the economics department of the Hebrew University,