An Improbable Friendship: The Story of Ruth Dayan and Raymonda Tawil and Their 40-Year Mission of Peace: The story of Yasser Arafat's mother-in-law ... general and their 40-year mission of peace

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An Improbable Friendship is the dual biography of Israeli Ruth Dayan now ninety-seven who was Moshe Dayans wife for thirty-seven years and Palestinian journalist Raymonda Tawil Yasser Arafats mother-in-law now seventy-four. It reveals for the first time the two womens surprising and secret forty-year friendship and delivers the story of their extraordinary and turbulent lives growing up in a war-torn country. Based on personal interviews diaries and journals drawn from both women-Ruth lives today in Tel Aviv Raymonda in Malta-author Anthony David delivers a fast-paced fascinating narrative that is a beautiful story of reconciliation and hope in a climate of endless conflict. By telling their stories and following their budding relationship which began after the Six-Day War in 1967 we learn the behind-the-scenes undisclosed history of the Middle Easts most influential leaders from two prominent women on either side of the ongoing conflict. An award-winning biographer and historian Anthony David brings us the story of unexpected friendship while he discovers the true pasts of two outstanding women. Their story gives voice to Israelis and Palestinians caught in the Middle East conflict and holds a persistent faith in a future of peace.