Daniel Rosenfeld is a writer and expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is also used in reference to the earlier phases of the same conflict, between Jewish and Zionist yishuv and the Arab population living in Palestine under Ottoman or...

. His father was an official in the British Mandate's Government from 1921–1948, and he was educated in Hebrew

Hebrew language

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 and English schools. In 1948 Rosenfeld enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces

Israel Defense Forces

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 and fought for the defense of Jerusalem during the War of Independence in 1948. He worked for many years at Bank Leumi

Bank Leumi

Bank Leumi is an Israeli bank. It was founded in London as the Anglo Palestine Company on February 27, 1902, by members of the Zionist movement to promote the industry, construction, agriculture, and infrastructure of Palestine.-History:...

. Currently, he lives in the United States of America.

His books include What If (2002), an alternate history

Alternate history (fiction)

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 in which the author speculates about how history would have been different if in 1890 events had taken a different path in the second rise of Israel on the way to becoming a nation state; Fall of the Spanish Inquisition (2002), and Code Name: Amnon: The Life And Times Of A Haganah Fighter 1943-1949 (2003), an autobiography

Autobiography

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 of the author's involvement with the Haganah

Haganah

Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces.- Origins :...

 since 1943 to 1949, during the dramatic and violent years leading up to the creation of the State of Israel

Israel

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Books by Rosenfeld

• What If (2002) ISBN 0-9716008-0-5

• Fall of the Spanish Inquisition (2002) ISBN 0-9716008-1-3

• Code Name: Amnon: The Life And Times Of A Haganah Fighter 1943-1949 (2003) ISBN 0-9716008-2-1