Moshe Arens, who fled the Holocaust and emigrated to the United States in 1939, played a pivotal role in Israel’s founding and development. Arriving in Israel in 1948, he was instrumental in the country’s aerospace program. He had a distinguished political career, serving as a Knesset member, Israeli ambassador to the United States, and holding the positions of defense minister three times and foreign minister. Educated at MIT and Caltech, Arens was also an author of influential works such as Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto and Broken Covenant. He passed away on January 7, 2019, at 93.

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In Defense of Israel by Moshe Arens

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In Defense of Israel | A Memoir of a Political Life by Moshe Arens is his memoir recounting his political battles in the Israel. It is a revealing memoir of one of Israeli’s most respected statesmen, as Moshe Arens was one of the last surviving members of the founding generation of Israelis. He was a political insider who has worked with every Israeli prime minister from Menachem Begin to Benjamin Netanyahu, serving in a variety of important positions, including foreign minister and defense minister.

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