Shabtai Teveth is an Israel

Israel

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i historian.

Shabtai Teveth began working as a journalist for Haaretz

Haaretz

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 newspaper in 1950, eventually becoming its political correspondent. In 1981, he was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the oshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

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In his biography of David Ben Gurion Teveth argues that Ben Gurion did not instigate a policy of population transfer

Population transfer

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In 2005, Teveth was awarded the Israel Prize

Israel Prize

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for "lifetime achievement and special contribution to society and the State."

Published works

(English: ) An account of Israel's Armoured Corps during the 1967 war. - Translated from Hebrew to English by Myra Bank (1970). (English: ) Two volumes.

• The Incarnations of Transfer in Zionist Thinking 1988. (Hebrew), Ha'aretz.
• The Burning Ground 1997, Schoken, Tel Aviv. Two Volumes. Biography of David Ben Gurion.