O Jerusalem!

O Jerusalem! is a history book published in 1971 by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins. It aims to capture the events surrounding the creation of Israel and the subsequent expulsion and flight of the Palestinians.

The authors spent two years on research, conducting several thousand interviews and examining a range of publicly available documents and materials. This work became the foundation for telling the story of the birth of the modern state of Israel, and it offered one of the earliest accounts of the circumstances behind the Palestinian refugee crisis.

The book is divided into forty-six chapters grouped into four parts: "A Time to Mourn and a Time to Dance," "A House Against Itself," "A City Besieged," and "A City Divided." In 2006, director Élie Chouraqui adapted it into a film of the same name.