A groundbreaking and authoritative examination of Israel by one of the most influential columnists writing about the Middle East today, My Promised Land has been called 'the best book to have been written on the subject [of Israel]' by Simon Schama. It asks difficult but important questions such as: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? And how can it survive?

Times Literary Supplement 'Best Books of the Year 2014'

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Ari Shavit is a leading Israeli columnist and writer. Born in Rehovot, Israel, Shavit served as a paratrooper in the IDF and studied philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In the early 1990s he was Chairperson of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, and in 1995 he joined Haaretz, where he serves on the editorial board. He is married, has a daughter and two sons, and lives in Kfar Shmaryahu.