The Seventh Million details complex relationship and positioning of the Yeshuv towards Holocaust in the wake of, during, and after the WW2.

Segev’s book, as all his work, dismantles dozens of myths in the common Israeli mindsets, exposing the hard truth: Zionist leadership in Palestine could not do anything to save European jewry without damage to their state-building cause and systematically chose not to, whilst almost never hesitating to exploit their European brother’s suffering.

The book is at times a bit repetitive which you won’t find it Segev’s later works, but is still extremely insightful.

Seeing that the first part is mostly dedicated to Zionist leadership response to Holocaust, it reads well as a second part of Segev’s own “A State at any Cost”, Ben-Gurion’s biography.