"The shaping of American-Israeli relations and the creation and transformation of Israel through three decades of Middle East crises and wars."

Includes index.

The origins of modern Israel -- The Jewish connection with Palestine -- Zionism: the dynamics of its internal success -- The Balfour Declaration and the mandate -- The United Nations, the United States, and the birth of Israel -- The war of independence and the birth of Israel -- The physical, human, economic, and constitutional environment -- The country -- The people -- The economy: development, characteristics, problems -- The constitutional order -- The pattern of internal politics -- The inherited party system and its characteristics -- Pressures and adaptations, 1948-1967 -- New pressures and readjustments, 1967-1977 -- Religion and the state -- National defense: threats, responses, implications -- National security, 1949-1967: challenge and response -- The test of 1967: the Six Day War -- National security, 1967-1973: new challenges, new responses -- Trial by ordeal: the 1973 Yom Kippur War -- The defense effort and the Israeli polity -- Israel and America in international politics -- Striving for security in the absence of peace, 1949-1956 -- A decade of consolidation and hope, 1957-1967 -- The 1967 eruption -- New options, alignments, and tribulations, 1967-1970 -- The prevailing of the Israeli-American partnership, 1970-1973 -- The cataclysm of October 1973 -- Readaptations and step-by-step diplomacy, October 1973-May 1974 -- Faltering steps, reassessment, realignment, pause, June 1974-May 1977 -- American-Israeli relations: an overview.