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Yossi Goldstein

Yossi Goldstein is an Israeli historian and biographer who studies modern Jewish history, Zionism and the history of the State of Israel.

born 1947Research on the history of ZionismBiographies of Israeli prime ministersModern Jewish history studies

Occupation: historian, biographer
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Yossi Goldstein was born in 1947 in Haifa

Yossi Goldstein was born in Haifa in 1947. He has five children, among them journalist Tani Goldstein.

He served in the paratroopers. In 1974 he finished a BA in Russian studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His master's thesis dealt with Israel's relations with the PLO, and in 1982 he earned a doctorate there for research on the Zionist movement in Russia.

He taught at the Open University of Israel from 1977 to 1992 and at the University of Haifa from 1984 to 1999. He later became a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Ariel University.

His research describes 5 linked developments in modern Jewish history: emigration, emancipation, cultural revolution, antisemitism and Zionism. He has written biographies of Levi Eshkol, Yitzhak Rabin and Golda Meir.