Zach Levey
Biographic Data
| ID | 192432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zach Levey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zach |
| FAMILY NAME | Levey |
| SIGNATURE | LEVEY Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The 1973 Arab-Israeli War
Four principal themes emerge in this intensive reexamination of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. The first is that it was avoidable, of which several of the contributors remind us, including Jerome Slater in his conclusion. Second is that the intransigence and misevaluation that marked both US and Israeli policies were in great measure the reasons for its outbreak, with a few key policymakers in those two governments bearing the greatest responsibility…
The United States, Israel and the 1976 Red Lines in Lebanon
During the first half of 1976 the United States mediated Israel’s indirect dialogue with Syria on de facto spheres of influence in Lebanon. This work analyzes those understandings, drawing on U.S. and Israeli archival records to assert that of Israel’s stipulations regarding Syrian intervention, the demarcation on a map it transmitted via Washington was the boundary the crossing of which would have provoked a violent response. Israel evinced flex…
America's Israel
Amy Kaplan tells of both the distant roots and contemporary processes that led Americans to view Israel as “ours,” but her treatment of the alliance to which the subtitle refers is limited to the cultural and spiritual planes. International historians will find in this volume little on the strategic ties between the two countries. Moreover, absent is any attempt to place the term “strategic relationship” in a comparative setting. Kaplan states th…
The United States, Israel, and Nuclear Desalination
Journal Article The United States, Israel, and Nuclear Desalination: 1964–1968 Get access Zach Levey Zach Levey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 39, Issue 5, November 2015, Pages 904–925, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhu014 Published: 03 April 2014
Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin: A Political Biography, by Leslie Derfler. New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2014. 240 pp. $105.00 US (cloth). Resurrection is principal theme of this biography; Yitzhak Rabin's return in 1992 as prime minister of Israel twenty-five years after a three-year period (1974-77) that he himself considered a failure. Nine of eleven chapters review roles that Rabin filled during fifty years that preceded his reascent in 1992, when he led Labor…
Israel, Nigeria and the Biafra civil war, 1967–70
The Biafran secession of 1967 and ensuing civil war presented Israel with an acute dilemma. Israel sought to maintain correct relations with the Federal Government of Nigeria, which viewed as a hostile act any support rendered to the Biafran separatists. At the same time, the plight of the Igbos reminded many Israelis of the Holocaust. This article makes use of Israeli archival material to shed new light on how Israel shaped its policy towards th…
Anatomy of an airlift
During the 1973 war the United States flew 12,000 tons of military equipment to Israel, transferring advanced weaponry that it had hitherto withheld. In fact, Nixon and Kissinger had planned to strictly regulate the supply of arms to Israel, intending both to control its strategy during the fighting and heighten its dependence following the war. Yet the exigency of matching the Soviet Union's massive resupply of Egypt and Syria forced the United …
Israel's Exit from Africa, 1973
In 1973 25 Black African states severed diplomatic relations with Israel. This article examines the motives that brought the African countries to shun Israel and the manner in which the Israelis attempted to cope with their growing ‘pariahtude’. The African states sought to achieve unity on their continent, avoid their own isolation, and advance the international norms that they espoused. The Black African countries claimed that no hostility atte…
United States Arms Policy toward Jordan, 1963–68
In 1964 the USA decided that the Soviet Union's offer to supply Amman with modern arms left it no alternative to selling tanks to Jordan and in early 1966 added jets to the military hardware it consented to supply to that country. The decision to arm Jordan was a turning point in US Middle East policy, placing the USA in the role of its principal supplier, deepening the American commitment to King Hussein and at the same time accelerating US weap…
JFK and the U.S.-Israeli Relationship
Warren Bass demonstrates how U.S. policy toward Israel evolved from the chill of the Eisenhower period to President John F. Kennedy's view by late 1962 that regional developments justified the first major sale of U.S. arms to that country. His book is the most recent contribution to the growing body of literature on U.S.-Israeli relations based on archival sources and the first to deal with the broader context of Kennedy's policy toward the Arab-…
The United States' Skyhawk Sale to Israel, 1966
Journal Article The United States’ Skyhawk Sale to Israel, 1966: Strategic Exigencies of an Arms Deal Get access Zach Levey Zach Levey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 28, Issue 2, April 2004, Pages 255–276, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2004.00408.x Published: 25 March 2004
Britain's Middle East strategy, 1950–52
(2004). Britain's Middle East strategy, 1950–52: General Brian Robertson and the ‘small’ Arab states. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 58-79
Israel's Strategy in Africa, 1961–67
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Israel's involvement in the Congo, 1958–68
By 1958 Israel considered ties with the Congo one of its most important economic and foreign policy objectives on the African continent. Yet, previous accounts of Israel's activities in Africa during the 1960s have left its relations with the Congo unexplored. This article examines the civilian and military dimensions of Israeli involvement in the Congo from 1958 to 1968, focusing primarily upon Israel's relationship with the regime in Leopoldvil…
Israel's Involvement in the Congo, 1958-68
The Rise and Decline of a Special Relationship
The relationship between Israel and Ghana that began with the latter's attainment of independence in March 1957 endured only three years. At the January 1961 Casablanca Conference, Ghana joined in a sharp condemnation of Israel, marking the end of Israel's brief but extraordinary influence in Accra. Despite this downturn, Israel continued to fund aid and assistance projects in Ghana and to conduct civilian training programs. This article reviews …
Israeli foreign policy and the arms race in the Middle East 1950–1960
Previous accounts of the arms race in the Middle East during the 1950s have focused on the imbalance that resulted from the 'Czech deal' of September 1955. While that transfer of weaponry by the Soviet Union to Egypt constituted both a historical turning point and sharp acceleration of the arms race, it was only one of several changes in the regional strategic balance of that decade. This article makes extensive use of archival material in order …
Israel's entry to Africa, 1956–61
From 1956 to 1961, Israel established a presence in Africa that constituted a remarkable diplomatic achievement. When the Gold Coast became Ghana in March 1957, Israel's consulate in Accra became its first embassy in Africa. Israel experienced its first serious setback in Africa in January 1961, when Ghana, Guinea and Mali signed an anti‐Israel declaration at the Casablanca conference. This initiative of Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser cond…
Israel and the Western Powers, 1952-1960
In this study, Zach Levey provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of Israel's foreign policy during the critical years of the 1950s, focusing particularly on relations between the Jewish state and the three Western powers involved in the Middle East arms race - the United States, Great Britain and France. Drawing extensively on recently declassified archival materials, Levey challenges traditional accounts of the nature and success o…
Building an Alliance and Building a Bomb
Decade of Transition by Abraham Ben-Zvi and Israel and the Bomb by Avner Cohen are among the most recent additions to a growing literature that analyzes the Arab-Israeli conflict, the foreign relations of Israel, and U.S. policy in the Middle East based on the extensive use of declassified documents. Steven Spiegel’s pioneering work The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict1 incorporated a great number of U.S. foreign policy documents in a tour de force of…
The Israeli-American Connection
Journal Article The Israeli-American Connection: Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914–1945. By Michael Brown. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996. 396 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8143-2536-X.) and Israel and the Western Powers, 1952–1960. By Zach Levey. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiv, 203 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2368-6.) Get access Douglas Little Douglas Little Clark University Worcester, Massachusetts Search for other works…
Israel's quest for a security guarantee from the United States, 1954–1956
(1995). Israel's quest for a security guarantee from the United States, 1954–1956. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1-2, pp. 43-63
Anglo‐Israeli strategic relations, 1952–56
Anglo-Israeli co-operation over Suez-Sinai in 1956 was entirely 'episodic'.l True, in 1952 Ben-Gurion hoped that the return to power of the Conservatives might effect a change in Israel's relations with Britain.2 In addition, the possibility of Israeli involvement in a Middle East defence alliance under Anglo-American aegis came up again at the end of 1952 and documents in the Israeli State Archives show that the issue of a strategic link specifi…
Israel's Strategy in Africa, 1961–67
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Israel, Nigeria and the Biafra civil war, 1967–70
The Biafran secession of 1967 and ensuing civil war presented Israel with an acute dilemma. Israel sought to maintain correct relations with the Federal Government of Nigeria, which viewed as a hostile act any support rendered to the Biafran separatists. At the same time, the plight of the Igbos reminded many Israelis of the Holocaust. This article makes use of Israeli archival material to shed new light on how Israel shaped its policy towards th…
Israel's Exit from Africa, 1973
In 1973 25 Black African states severed diplomatic relations with Israel. This article examines the motives that brought the African countries to shun Israel and the manner in which the Israelis attempted to cope with their growing ‘pariahtude’. The African states sought to achieve unity on their continent, avoid their own isolation, and advance the international norms that they espoused. The Black African countries claimed that no hostility atte…
The Rise and Decline of a Special Relationship
The relationship between Israel and Ghana that began with the latter's attainment of independence in March 1957 endured only three years. At the January 1961 Casablanca Conference, Ghana joined in a sharp condemnation of Israel, marking the end of Israel's brief but extraordinary influence in Accra. Despite this downturn, Israel continued to fund aid and assistance projects in Ghana and to conduct civilian training programs. This article reviews …
United States Arms Policy toward Jordan, 1963–68
In 1964 the USA decided that the Soviet Union's offer to supply Amman with modern arms left it no alternative to selling tanks to Jordan and in early 1966 added jets to the military hardware it consented to supply to that country. The decision to arm Jordan was a turning point in US Middle East policy, placing the USA in the role of its principal supplier, deepening the American commitment to King Hussein and at the same time accelerating US weap…
Israel's entry to Africa, 1956–61
From 1956 to 1961, Israel established a presence in Africa that constituted a remarkable diplomatic achievement. When the Gold Coast became Ghana in March 1957, Israel's consulate in Accra became its first embassy in Africa. Israel experienced its first serious setback in Africa in January 1961, when Ghana, Guinea and Mali signed an anti‐Israel declaration at the Casablanca conference. This initiative of Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser cond…
Anglo‐Israeli strategic relations, 1952–56
Anglo-Israeli co-operation over Suez-Sinai in 1956 was entirely 'episodic'.l True, in 1952 Ben-Gurion hoped that the return to power of the Conservatives might effect a change in Israel's relations with Britain.2 In addition, the possibility of Israeli involvement in a Middle East defence alliance under Anglo-American aegis came up again at the end of 1952 and documents in the Israeli State Archives show that the issue of a strategic link specifi…
The United States, Israel and the 1976 Red Lines in Lebanon
During the first half of 1976 the United States mediated Israel’s indirect dialogue with Syria on de facto spheres of influence in Lebanon. This work analyzes those understandings, drawing on U.S. and Israeli archival records to assert that of Israel’s stipulations regarding Syrian intervention, the demarcation on a map it transmitted via Washington was the boundary the crossing of which would have provoked a violent response. Israel evinced flex…
Israeli foreign policy and the arms race in the Middle East 1950–1960
Previous accounts of the arms race in the Middle East during the 1950s have focused on the imbalance that resulted from the 'Czech deal' of September 1955. While that transfer of weaponry by the Soviet Union to Egypt constituted both a historical turning point and sharp acceleration of the arms race, it was only one of several changes in the regional strategic balance of that decade. This article makes extensive use of archival material in order …
Israel's quest for a security guarantee from the United States, 1954–1956
(1995). Israel's quest for a security guarantee from the United States, 1954–1956. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1-2, pp. 43-63
Israel's quest for a security guarantee from the United States, 1954–1956
(1995). Israel's quest for a security guarantee from the United States, 1954–1956. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1-2, pp. 43-63
Anglo‐Israeli strategic relations, 1952–56
Anglo-Israeli co-operation over Suez-Sinai in 1956 was entirely 'episodic'.l True, in 1952 Ben-Gurion hoped that the return to power of the Conservatives might effect a change in Israel's relations with Britain.2 In addition, the possibility of Israeli involvement in a Middle East defence alliance under Anglo-American aegis came up again at the end of 1952 and documents in the Israeli State Archives show that the issue of a strategic link specifi…
The Israeli-American Connection
Journal Article The Israeli-American Connection: Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914–1945. By Michael Brown. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996. 396 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8143-2536-X.) and Israel and the Western Powers, 1952–1960. By Zach Levey. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiv, 203 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2368-6.) Get access Douglas Little Douglas Little Clark University Worcester, Massachusetts Search for other works…
Israel and the Western Powers, 1952-1960
In this study, Zach Levey provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of Israel's foreign policy during the critical years of the 1950s, focusing particularly on relations between the Jewish state and the three Western powers involved in the Middle East arms race - the United States, Great Britain and France. Drawing extensively on recently declassified archival materials, Levey challenges traditional accounts of the nature and success o…
Building an Alliance and Building a Bomb
Decade of Transition by Abraham Ben-Zvi and Israel and the Bomb by Avner Cohen are among the most recent additions to a growing literature that analyzes the Arab-Israeli conflict, the foreign relations of Israel, and U.S. policy in the Middle East based on the extensive use of declassified documents. Steven Spiegel’s pioneering work The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict1 incorporated a great number of U.S. foreign policy documents in a tour de force of…
Israeli foreign policy and the arms race in the Middle East 1950–1960
Previous accounts of the arms race in the Middle East during the 1950s have focused on the imbalance that resulted from the 'Czech deal' of September 1955. While that transfer of weaponry by the Soviet Union to Egypt constituted both a historical turning point and sharp acceleration of the arms race, it was only one of several changes in the regional strategic balance of that decade. This article makes extensive use of archival material in order …
Israel's entry to Africa, 1956–61
From 1956 to 1961, Israel established a presence in Africa that constituted a remarkable diplomatic achievement. When the Gold Coast became Ghana in March 1957, Israel's consulate in Accra became its first embassy in Africa. Israel experienced its first serious setback in Africa in January 1961, when Ghana, Guinea and Mali signed an anti‐Israel declaration at the Casablanca conference. This initiative of Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser cond…
Israel's involvement in the Congo, 1958–68
By 1958 Israel considered ties with the Congo one of its most important economic and foreign policy objectives on the African continent. Yet, previous accounts of Israel's activities in Africa during the 1960s have left its relations with the Congo unexplored. This article examines the civilian and military dimensions of Israeli involvement in the Congo from 1958 to 1968, focusing primarily upon Israel's relationship with the regime in Leopoldvil…
Israel's Involvement in the Congo, 1958-68
The Rise and Decline of a Special Relationship
The relationship between Israel and Ghana that began with the latter's attainment of independence in March 1957 endured only three years. At the January 1961 Casablanca Conference, Ghana joined in a sharp condemnation of Israel, marking the end of Israel's brief but extraordinary influence in Accra. Despite this downturn, Israel continued to fund aid and assistance projects in Ghana and to conduct civilian training programs. This article reviews …
The United States' Skyhawk Sale to Israel, 1966
Journal Article The United States’ Skyhawk Sale to Israel, 1966: Strategic Exigencies of an Arms Deal Get access Zach Levey Zach Levey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 28, Issue 2, April 2004, Pages 255–276, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2004.00408.x Published: 25 March 2004
Britain's Middle East strategy, 1950–52
(2004). Britain's Middle East strategy, 1950–52: General Brian Robertson and the ‘small’ Arab states. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 58-79
Israel's Strategy in Africa, 1961–67
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
JFK and the U.S.-Israeli Relationship
Warren Bass demonstrates how U.S. policy toward Israel evolved from the chill of the Eisenhower period to President John F. Kennedy's view by late 1962 that regional developments justified the first major sale of U.S. arms to that country. His book is the most recent contribution to the growing body of literature on U.S.-Israeli relations based on archival sources and the first to deal with the broader context of Kennedy's policy toward the Arab-…
United States Arms Policy toward Jordan, 1963–68
In 1964 the USA decided that the Soviet Union's offer to supply Amman with modern arms left it no alternative to selling tanks to Jordan and in early 1966 added jets to the military hardware it consented to supply to that country. The decision to arm Jordan was a turning point in US Middle East policy, placing the USA in the role of its principal supplier, deepening the American commitment to King Hussein and at the same time accelerating US weap…
Anatomy of an airlift
During the 1973 war the United States flew 12,000 tons of military equipment to Israel, transferring advanced weaponry that it had hitherto withheld. In fact, Nixon and Kissinger had planned to strictly regulate the supply of arms to Israel, intending both to control its strategy during the fighting and heighten its dependence following the war. Yet the exigency of matching the Soviet Union's massive resupply of Egypt and Syria forced the United …
Israel's Exit from Africa, 1973
In 1973 25 Black African states severed diplomatic relations with Israel. This article examines the motives that brought the African countries to shun Israel and the manner in which the Israelis attempted to cope with their growing ‘pariahtude’. The African states sought to achieve unity on their continent, avoid their own isolation, and advance the international norms that they espoused. The Black African countries claimed that no hostility atte…
Israel, Nigeria and the Biafra civil war, 1967–70
The Biafran secession of 1967 and ensuing civil war presented Israel with an acute dilemma. Israel sought to maintain correct relations with the Federal Government of Nigeria, which viewed as a hostile act any support rendered to the Biafran separatists. At the same time, the plight of the Igbos reminded many Israelis of the Holocaust. This article makes use of Israeli archival material to shed new light on how Israel shaped its policy towards th…
The United States, Israel, and Nuclear Desalination
Journal Article The United States, Israel, and Nuclear Desalination: 1964–1968 Get access Zach Levey Zach Levey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 39, Issue 5, November 2015, Pages 904–925, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhu014 Published: 03 April 2014
Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin: A Political Biography, by Leslie Derfler. New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2014. 240 pp. $105.00 US (cloth). Resurrection is principal theme of this biography; Yitzhak Rabin's return in 1992 as prime minister of Israel twenty-five years after a three-year period (1974-77) that he himself considered a failure. Nine of eleven chapters review roles that Rabin filled during fifty years that preceded his reascent in 1992, when he led Labor…
America's Israel
Amy Kaplan tells of both the distant roots and contemporary processes that led Americans to view Israel as “ours,” but her treatment of the alliance to which the subtitle refers is limited to the cultural and spiritual planes. International historians will find in this volume little on the strategic ties between the two countries. Moreover, absent is any attempt to place the term “strategic relationship” in a comparative setting. Kaplan states th…
The United States, Israel and the 1976 Red Lines in Lebanon
During the first half of 1976 the United States mediated Israel’s indirect dialogue with Syria on de facto spheres of influence in Lebanon. This work analyzes those understandings, drawing on U.S. and Israeli archival records to assert that of Israel’s stipulations regarding Syrian intervention, the demarcation on a map it transmitted via Washington was the boundary the crossing of which would have provoked a violent response. Israel evinced flex…
The 1973 Arab-Israeli War
Four principal themes emerge in this intensive reexamination of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. The first is that it was avoidable, of which several of the contributors remind us, including Jerome Slater in his conclusion. Second is that the intransigence and misevaluation that marked both US and Israeli policies were in great measure the reasons for its outbreak, with a few key policymakers in those two governments bearing the greatest responsibility…
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