Avi Shlaim

Israeli-British historian (born 1945)

Avi Shlaim (Hebrew: אבי שליים; Arabic: أفي شلايم; born 31 October 1945) is an Israeli and British historian of Iraqi Jewish descent. He is one of Israel's "New Historians", a group of Israeli scholars who put forward critical interpretations of the history of Zionism and Israel. Born in 1945, his family emigrated to Israel in 1951 during Operation Ezra and Nehemiah.

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