Does Israel belong to the Jews? What does Israel even mean? Who has lived there, who claims the land, and how did the state of Israel come into being? Israeli historian Shlomo Sand radically questions the founding myth of his country. He convincingly demonstrates that Jews have never sought to return to their "ancestral land," and that even today, the majority do not live in or wish to live in Israel. He emphatically urges Israeli society to move away from the myths of Zionism and to acknowledge the historical facts.