Amos Elon, the best-selling author of many books that deal with Israeli life, discusses his latest product, a picture-book of Israel. He tells Don Swaim in this 1985 interview how he unearthed the pictures for The Israelis: Photographs of a Day in May. They also discuss the use of firearms in Israel and the turmoil that is indicitive of the area. Amos Elon has also written A Blood-Dimmed Tide, Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and Israelis: Founders and Sons.

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For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in their entirety.