His mother, Shifra, was a teacher and was born in Bessarabia. He began wor- king as a journalist for the newspaper Haaretz in 1950, eventually becoming its poli- tical correspondent. Teeth was awarded a research scholarship from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1981, and in 1985 he joined the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies as a research fellow. Schocken gave Teeth time to write books while he worked at Haaretz. During that period, Teveth published 1 books, including "The Tanks of Tammuz", an account of Israel's Armored Corps during the 1967 Six-Day War, "The Cursed Blessing", about the beginning of Israel's military administration in the West Bank; and a biography of military leader Moshe Dayan, subtitled " The Soldier, the Man, the Legend". Teveth began writing Ben-Gurion's biography in 1973, the last year of Ben-Gurion's life. He interviewed Israel's first prime minister and received his permission to write his bio- graphy, which was published in four volumes, the first in 1976 and the final one in 2004. The first installment in English translation, "Ben-Gurion: The Burning Ground, 1886-1948", was published in 1987 and comes to 967 pages.Teveth took breaks during that time to write other books, including "The Arlosoroff Murder" and "Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs: From Peace to War". Awarder - 1988: National Jewish Book Award ni the Israel category for Ben Gurion: The Burning Ground.