Meron Benvenisti (–2020)

This is the second book by Benvenisti that I have read, and I am quickly becoming a devoted reader of him! The way he writes about notoriously polemical and difficult problems; his (at times) common-sensical remarks, so natural but so seldom stated; his deep knowledge of the history, both distant and recent, of the city and of her conflicting communities and interests; the intelligence and fairness with which the issues are analysed; all this makes the book a very rare and important work and should enshrine its author as one of the very few knowledgeable and balanced persons whose opinions about these matters, even when one does not fully agree with them, are always worthy to listen to.… (meer)