Mat­ti Fried­mans new book, Spies of No Coun­try: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel, tells a breath­tak­ing and true espi­onage sto­ry about four of Israels first spies. Recruit­ed by a rag-tag out­fit called the Arab Sec­tion before the 1948 War of Inde­pen­dence, they assumed Arab iden­ti­ties to gath­er intel­li­gence and car­ry out sab­o­tage and assas­si­na­tions. In a wide-rang­ing con­ver­sa­tion, Fried­man speaks with author Lucette Lagna­do (The Man in the White Shark­skin Suit) about his jour­nal­ism career, writ­ing Spies of No Coun­try, and how his new book tells a dif­fer­ent sto­ry about Israels ear­ly days and the ques­tions it rais­es today.

In a wide-rang­ing First Per­son con­ver­sa­tion, Mat­ti Fried­man speaks with author Lucette Lagna­do (“The Man in the White Shark­skin Suit”) about his jour­nal­ism career, research­ing and writ­ing his new book, and what Spies of No Coun­try reveals about Israel in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Pre­sent­ed by Cen­ter for Jew­ish His­to­ry, Amer­i­can Jew­ish His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety, Amer­i­can Sephar­di Fed­er­a­tion & Jew­ish Book Council

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