9:16 a.m., April 20, 2009----Tom Segev, a historian and weekly columnist for Ha'aretz, Israel's leading newspaper, will speak on the topic “Understanding Israel” as part of the University of Delaware's Global Agenda speaker series at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 22, in Mitchell Hall.

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Segev is the author of six books that have been translated into seven languages, including 1949: The First Israelis, The Seventh Million: Israelis and the Holocaust, and One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate, a New York Times editors' choice best book for 2000.

His most recent book is 1967: Israel, the War and the Year That Transformed the Middle East.

Segev has just completed the first fully documented biography of Simon Wiesenthal, to be published later this year.

Segev was born in 1945 in Jerusalem, and continues to live there.

The Global Agenda series is sponsored by the University of Delaware and the World Affairs Council of Wilmington and is moderated by Ralph Begleiter, Edward and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Communication and Distinguished Journalist in Residence at UD.

The theme of Global Agenda 2009 is “Tinderbox: Understanding the Middle East.”