Dirty Work: how an Israeli soldier’s eye-witness account of the Nakba terror went missing
By Nathan Thrall 26 March 2026 The Israeli writer S.Yizhar’s 1949 novella Khirbet Khizeh portrays the violent reality of the Nakba. For decades it was part of the canon of Hebrew literature. That has changed (Originally titled as “Dirty Work”, The New York Review of Books, 2006 Nathan Thrall, March 26 issue.) S. Yizhar was…