Books
The three main books which Andrew has written, two of them jointly with Aharon Nathan, are listed below.
From Babylon to Jerusalem
memories and reflections of a wandering Jew (jointly with Aharon Nathan)
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July 2020
This book records the memoirs of Andrew’s friend, the late Aharon Nathan, including
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his childhood in Iraq as part of the lost world of a Jewish Community living happily and constructively (for the most part) in the heart of the Arab world,
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his escape from Iraq via Iran to Israel,
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his ten years in the infant State of Israel, including an extended period of service in Ben-Gurion’s Office when massive immigration, German reparations and relations with the Arabs inside and outside Israel were all key issues,
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his role as Civilian Governor of Gaza a few months after the Suez War of 1956,
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his personal memories and impressions of Israel’s early leaders,
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his new life studying social anthropology at Oxford,
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his building and losing of a sizeable business in the UK, and
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his proposed solutions to the Palestinian problem (which he believed Israel had a keen interest in solving and could solve) and the crises of democracy in the UK and Israel, which he believed could be largely solved by replacing first past the post and proportional representation systems with a hybrid system of total representation.
Interwoven with this are concise histories of the birth and early challenges of Israel and similarly concise summaries of his proposals for solving the Palestinian problem and the problems of democracy in the UK as well as Israel.
The Crisis in our Democracy
Proposed electoral reforms for the Houses of Commons and Lords based on Total Representation (jointly with Aharon Nathan)
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March 2017
This book analyses the perils of pure Constituency “first past the post” systems and Proportional Representation systems, with special reference to the UK and Israel, and advocates a hybrid system of Total Representation which would retain the virtues of both systems while greatly reducing the potential perils.
