People in the United States are still uncertain about the role women should play in the country's armed forces, but in Palestine a half-century ago, when the country's Jewish populace rose against the British Mandate authorities, women stood side by side with their men in the battle for freedom. Behind Prison Walls tells the story of one of these women, Tzila Amidror Heller, an activist member of the Irgun Zva'i Le'umi, the underground organization headed by Menachem Begin, later Prime Minister of Israel. It is a powerful, ...
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People in the United States are still uncertain about the role women should play in the country's armed forces, but in Palestine a half-century ago, when the country's Jewish populace rose against the British Mandate authorities, women stood side by side with their men in the battle for freedom. Behind Prison Walls tells the story of one of these women, Tzila Amidror Heller, an activist member of the Irgun Zva'i Le'umi, the underground organization headed by Menachem Begin, later Prime Minister of Israel. It is a powerful, fast-moving tale of life in the underground and of resistance against tyranny motivated by the dream of Jewish state-hood. Tzila Amidror Heller's memoir describes life in Palestine in the 1940s, and in many respects is a connective to the conventional understanding of the period leading up to the establishment of the State of Israel.
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