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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

David, Anthony, 1962- author.

An improbable friendship : the remarkable lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and their forty-year peace mission / Anthony David. — First English-language edition.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-62872-568-1 (hardback); ISBN 978-1-62872-631-2 (E-book)

1. Dayan, Ruth—Friends and associates. 2. Tawil, Raymonda Hawa—Friends and associates. 3. Arab-Israeli conflict—Influence. 4. Women and peace—Israel. 5. Women, Palestinian Arab—Malta—Biography. 6. Israel—Biography. 7. Malta—Biography. I. Title.

CT1919.P38D394 2015

327.1’72095694—dc23

2015027734

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