Background
Yuval Elizur was born in Jerusalem on October 21, 1927. His father’s family came to Israel from Lithuania in the 1840s to escape assimilation.
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In recent years there has been a war raging within Israel -- but not the interminable conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians, as one might assume. For many Israelis, it is the internecine conflict with the ultra-orthodox Haredim that impacts their lives the most. The majority of Haredim -- raised with an intense focus on religion at the expense of all else -- are unemployable in a modern economy. Many choose to pursue religious studies, which the government subsidizes up to the age of 40. The first book on a conflict that is fast crystallizing into a national debate, The War Within is a lively and trenchant exploration of a battle between church and state as it plays out before our eyes in Israel today. As acclaimed journalists Yuval Elizur and Lawrence Malkin expose, the situation today has reached a critical point that threatens the state of Israel from within and must certainly affect its future.
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Yuval Elizur was born in Jerusalem on October 21, 1927. His father’s family came to Israel from Lithuania in the 1840s to escape assimilation.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
He is also a published author of eight books on the Israeli economy, globalization, and economic warfare, including Who Rules Israel, which was published in the United States by Harper and Row in 1973. He currently lives in Jerusalem. During Yuval’s childhood, his father left the walled Old City of Jerusalem in order to join the new Zionist arrivals.
From 1945-1947, Yuval served in the Palmach, the striking force of the Haganah (Defense), the illegal army of the majority of Israeli Jews in Palestine.
After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, he became an Intelligence Officer in the newly established Israeli Air Force. As a teenager, Elizur dreamed of becoming a journalist, and found a way to balance the quest for a career in writing with duty to country in the Palmah.
In 1953, Yuval finished an undergraduate degree in economics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1954, he obtained an Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University and became the first Israeli to attend the Pulitzer School.
After returning to Jerusalem, Yuval started working as a journalist for Ha’aretz and later for Ma’ariv, where he worked for 38 years until retiring in 2005 from his position as Deputy Editor.
He also served as the Israeli correspondent for The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. During his years as a journalist, he took two leaves of absence in order to serve in the Israeli Foreign Office, mainly on the subject of economic warfare. Between 1964 and 1966, he served as Consul at the Consulate General of Israel in New New York
( In recent years there has been a war raging within Isra...)