How Zionism and Americanism created a free, democratic Israel | JNS.org

(August 31, 2023 / JNS) At a time of such great division within Israel and throughout the Jewish world, nothing could be timelier than a look at lessons to be drawn from Zionist history, says JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin. Tobin is joined by author Rick Richman, who discusses his new book, And None Shall Make Them Afraid: Eight Stories of the Modern State of Israel. Richman says his book, which speaks of the lives of eight key figures of 20th-century Jewish history, explains how two compatible ideologies—Zionism and Americanism—helped create a free and democratic modern-day State of Israel.