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His father was a refugee from pre-Holocaust Europe, fleeing on a boat of illegal immigrants to Palestine in 1939. Nearly a decade later he was wounded during Israel's War of Independence, losing several fingers in an incident that effectively ended his professional days as a blacksmith. He later turned to the study of economics, working as a government economist and Tiffany & Co. bangle rising to become No. 2 at the Bank of Israel.It was his father, whom he describes as an "ardent Zionist," who most influenced his Zionism, Taub says. He recalls as a boy in the 1970s and listening to his father discuss a settler evacuation from the West Bank."He said the settlers were going to be a terrible danger, and I remember not understanding what he meant but that it frightened me," said Taub, who grew up in Jerusalem.

For all his criticism of the settlement enterprise, Taub does not let the Israeli left off easy. The problem with the Israeli left, he says, is that their disgust with occupation has morphed into disgust with Tiffany 1837 interlocking circles bangle itself."Everything that smacks of national sentiment seems to them to be fascistic," he said. "They only speak in terms of individual human rights while their disgust with Jewish national sentiment has marginalized them."The prolific Taub, who teaches in the communications department of Hebrew University, has written 11 books. Several are for children, but Tiffany & Co. bangle those books seem to have a social message.One of them, "The Giraffe Who Liked to Feel Sorry for Himself," was written upon his return from the United States, where he spent four years studying for his doctorate in American history at Rutgers University.

It was a response, he said, to the American exhortation to be cheerful and upbeat.Despite his tendency to harp on bleak predictions for the future, Taub insists his message comes from a positive place: imagining bringing the settlers back into the fold and into his vision of history as it should be played out."I don't want to get rid of the settlers but bring them back home, ideologically and physically," he said. "I am against the settlements because I am a Zionist, not because my Zionism has weakened."I want a persistent type of Zionism Tiffany Somerset cuff first of all requires to draw borders in such a way that we preserve a Jewish majority and secondly believes in the right of all peoples to self determination. It is inconsistent that we demand that right for ourselves because it's universal and then deny to another people."