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Shmuel "Mooki" Katz, born Samuel Katz ( 9 December, 1914 – 9 May, 2008) was an Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i writer, historian and journalist. He was a member of the first Knesset
Israeli legislative election, 1949

Elections in Israel for the Constituent Assembly were held in newly-independent Israel on 25 January, 1949. Voter turnout was 85.8%. Two days after its first meeting on 14 February, 1949, legislators voted to change the name of the body to the Knesset ....
 and is also known for his research on Jewish leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky.

was born in 1914 in South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
, and in 1930 he joined the Betar
Betar

The Betar Movement is a Revisionist Zionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Vladimir Jabotinsky. Betar members played important roles in the fight against the British during the Mandate, and in the creation of Israel....
 movement. In 1936 he immigrated
Aliyah

Aliyah refers to Jewish immigration to Greater Israel. The opposite action, Jewish emigration from Israel, is referred to as Yerida ....
 to Mandate Palestine and joined the Irgun
Irgun

Irgun was a militant Zionism group that operated in Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was established as a militant offshoot of the earlier and larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah ....
. In 1939 he was sent to London by Jabotinsky to speak on issues concerning Palestine.






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Shmuel "Mooki" Katz, born Samuel Katz ( 9 December, 1914 – 9 May, 2008) was an Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i writer, historian and journalist. He was a member of the first Knesset
Israeli legislative election, 1949

Elections in Israel for the Constituent Assembly were held in newly-independent Israel on 25 January, 1949. Voter turnout was 85.8%. Two days after its first meeting on 14 February, 1949, legislators voted to change the name of the body to the Knesset ....
 and is also known for his research on Jewish leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky.

Background

Katz was born in 1914 in South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
, and in 1930 he joined the Betar
Betar

The Betar Movement is a Revisionist Zionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Vladimir Jabotinsky. Betar members played important roles in the fight against the British during the Mandate, and in the creation of Israel....
 movement. In 1936 he immigrated
Aliyah

Aliyah refers to Jewish immigration to Greater Israel. The opposite action, Jewish emigration from Israel, is referred to as Yerida ....
 to Mandate Palestine and joined the Irgun
Irgun

Irgun was a militant Zionism group that operated in Palestine between 1931 and 1948. It was established as a militant offshoot of the earlier and larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah ....
. In 1939 he was sent to London by Jabotinsky to speak on issues concerning Palestine. He was the editor of the paper The Jewish Standard
Jewish Standard

The Jewish Standard is a newspaper based in Teaneck, New Jersey, New Jersey, USA, that serves the Jewish community in Bergen County, New Jersey....
 and has written for the Daily Express
Daily Express

The Daily Express is a conservative, United Kingdom tabloid newspaper, in its heyday a middle-market title but nowadays very much downmarket....
 and The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post

The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli daily English-language broadsheet newspaper, founded on December 1, 1932 by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post....
.

In 1946 Katz returned to Mandate Palestine and joined the HQ of the Irgun where he was active in the aspect of foreign relations. He was one of the seven members of the high command of the Irgun, as well as a spokesman of the organization.

In 1948 Katz assisted in the bringing of the ship, Altalena
Altalena Affair

The Altalena Affair was a violent confrontation that took place in June 1948 between the newly-formed Israel Defense Forces and the Irgun, a paramilitary Jewish group....
 to the shores of Israel. Shmuel Katz was one of the founders of the Herut
Herut

Herut was the major Right wing politics List of political parties in Israel in Israel from the 1940s until its formal merger into Likud in 1988, and an adherent to Revisionist Zionism....
 political party, co-founder of the Movement for Greater Israel in 1967, and in 1971 helped to create Americans for a Safe Israel
Americans for a Safe Israel

Americans for a Safe Israel is an American Jewish group that opposes all territorial withdrawals by Israel. It supports the Israeli settlement movement and campaigned against the Oslo Accords and the evacuation of settlers from Gaza....
.

In 1977 Katz became "Adviser to the Prime Minister of Information Abroad" to Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin

was the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the establishment of the state, he was the leader of the Irgun, playing a central role in Jewish resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine....
. He accompanied Begin on two trips to Washington and was asked to explain some points to President Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize....
. He quit this task on January 5, 1978 because of differences with the Cabinet over peace proposals with Egypt. Katz was then active with the Tehiya
Tehiya

Tehiya , originally known as Banai , then Tehiya-Bnai , was a small Right wing politics political party in Israel that existed from 1979 until 1992....
 party for some years and later with Herut - The National Movement after it split away from the ruling Likud
Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
.

A well known book by Katz is Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine
Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine

Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine is a history book about the Arab-Israeli conflict by Israeli writer Shmuel Katz. Originally published in 1973, the book has since been updated several times in subsequent editions....
. In this book Katz describes the roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict and claims to expose anti-Zionist myths about it. Katz attacks what he calls propaganda used by Arab sources about the roots of the conflict and attempts to refute them. In the preamble of the last edition of the book, the author writes that the book is being taught in numerous schools around the world.

Another project for which Katz dedicated many years of his life is the two volume biography of Jabotinsky of 1792 pages, entitled Lone Wolf, A Biography of Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky.

Bibliography

  • Days of Fire (1966)
  • Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine
    Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine

    Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine is a history book about the Arab-Israeli conflict by Israeli writer Shmuel Katz. Originally published in 1973, the book has since been updated several times in subsequent editions....
     (1973)
  • Lo Oz Velo Hadar (No Courage and No Glory) (1981) In English: The Hollow Peace
  • Lone Wolf: A Two-Volume Biography of Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky (1993)
  • Ha-Reshet: ha-hagadah le-beit aaronson (The Network: the legend of the House of Aaronsohn) (2000); in English translation: The Aaronsohn Saga (2007)
  • The Hunt For The Engineer: The Inside Story of How Israel's Counterterrorist Forces Tracked and Killed the Hamas Master Bomber (2002)


External links

  • EretzYisrael.Org
  • MidEast Outpost
  • Freeman Center for Strategic Studies