An Improbable Friendship

An Improbable Friendship: The Remarkable Lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and their 40-year Mission to Build Understanding Between Their Peoples by Anthony David

Review by Annette Gendler, Jewish Book Council
Marketed as a chronicle of the friendship between Ruth Dayan, the first wife of Israel’s iconoclastic war hero Moshe Dayan, and Raymonda Tawil, a Palestinian leader in her own right who ended up becoming Arafat’s mother-in-law, An Improbable Friendship does not deliver. Given its highly personable introduction, involving Skype sessions with these two feisty older women—Ruth in Tel Aviv and Raymonda in Malta—the reader wonders how they became and remained friends. That question, however, is never answered.

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