JL;DR SUMMARY In his book "The Beginning of a Wondrous Friendship? The story of Israeli-German reconciliation 1948-1960," historian David Witzthum explores the unlikely alliance between Israel's Ben Gurion and Germany's Konrad Adenauer shortly after WWII. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.