The Sunset of the Titans

Nahum Barnea

1998

The spring of 1998 was kind to the Jezreel Valley. The rain, which was heavy and late, colored the slopes of the Gilboa with bright green and spread carpets of wildflowers on them—red, purple, and yellow. Tsipora Gil’ad, 82, one of the oldest members of Kibbutz Beit Hashita, reported that when tourists come to the kibbutz, they ask her how the…

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Nahum Barnea

b. 1944

Born in Petaḥ Tikva, Nahum Barnea is a leading Israeli journalist and the political columnist of the country’s largest daily newspaper, Yediot aḥaronot. He also was the Washington bureau chief for the Histadrut Labor Federation’s newspaper, Davar. Barnea received the Sokolov Award for Journalism, and won the Israel Prize in 2007.

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