Simha Flapan was born in 1911 in Poland and emigrated in the thirties to Palestine. He became secretary general of the Zionist party, Mapam, and went on to become their director of Arabic affairs from 1959 until the mid-1970s. He was the founder and former editor-in-chief of the newspaper \u0084New Outlook\u0093 that promoted an Arabic-Jewish approach to issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a historian and politician, he was best known for his book; \u0084The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities.\u0093 The book was published in the year of his death and was looked upon as a demystification of the story of Israel\u0092s founding. Simha Flapan died in 1987 in Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flapan recognized the rights of the Palestinian population with respect to their political self-determination. Through the founding of the Arab Book Publishing Houses, the Jewish-Arab Institute and the newspaper \u0084New Outlook\u0093 he contributed significantly to peace research. His efforts helped to develop Jewish-Arab dialogue and balance the power dynamic. Simha Flapan received the Bruno Kreisky Prize in 1981.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Simha Flapan was born in Poland in 1911 and emigrated to Palestine in the 1930s. Simha Flapan became general secretary of the left-wing Zionist Mapam Party and director of the party's Arab Affairs Department from 1959 to the mid-1970s. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine New Outlook, which promoted Arab-Jewish rapprochement. As a historian and [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-218","preistraeger","type-preistraeger","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreisky-menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/preistraeger\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreisky-menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/preistraeger"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreisky-menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/preistraeger"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreisky-menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}