Israeli Peace Activist, the Historian and Critic Zeev Sternhell, Dies at 85
Israeli historian, political scientist and peace activist Zeev Sternhell, has died at age 85, Jerusalem’s Hebrew University announced Sunday, June 21. Sternhell was an early critic of Israel’s 1967 decision to occupy the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights, Sinai and Gaza Strip. In the 1970s, he led a failed campaign to persuade the then-ruling Labor…