Mot­ti Golani is Ruhama Rosen­berg Pro­fes­sor for Jew­ish His­to­ry and heads the Chaim Weiz­mann Insti­tute for the Study of Zion­ism and Israel at Tel Aviv Uni­ver­si­ty. He has authored and coau­thored over a dozen books, includ­ing Pales­tine between Pol­i­tics and Ter­ror, 1945 – 1947 and Two Sides of the Coin: Inde­pen­dence and Nak­ba 1948; Two Nar­ra­tives of the 1948 War and its Out­come.