Israel category: 987 books
The New Citizen Armies
Israel’s Armed Forces in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
This edited book constitutes the first detailed attempt at a comparative international analysis of the transformations that are currently affecting the composition of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and their place in Israeli society.
Focusing primarily on deviations from the traditional...
The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion
Israel's Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
During the postwar period of 1948–56, over 400,000 Jews from the Middle East and Asia immigrated to the newly established state of Israel. By the end of the 1950s, Mizrahim, also known as Oriental Jewry, represented the ethnic majority of the Israeli Jewish population. Despite their large numbers,...
Israeli Prisoner of War Policies
From the 1949 Armistice to the 2006 Kidnappings
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Israeli Prisoner of War Policies: From the 1949 Armistice to the 2006 Kidnappings examines the development of Israel’s policies toward prisoners of war across multiple conflicts. Taking POWs is an indication of strength and a method of deterrence. However, the conditions leading to the release of...
The Arc of a Covenant
The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
From the acclaimed author of God and Gold and Special Providence, a groundbreaking new work that overturns the conventional understanding of the Israeli-American relationship and explores the fate of the Jewish people.
In this brilliant investigation, one of our premier scholars of American...
To Come to the Land
Immigration and Settlement in 16th-Century Eretz-Israel
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
To Come to the Land makes available in English a vast body of research,
previously available only in Hebrew, on the early history of the land now
known as Israel.
Abraham David here focuses on the Spanish and Portuguese Jews who fled
the Iberian Peninsula during the 16th century, tracing the...
by Tom Segev
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Renowned historian Tom Segev strips away national myths to present a critical and clear-eyed chronicle of the year immediately following Israel’s foundation.
“Required reading for all who want to understand the Arab-Israeli conflict…the best analysis…of the problems of trying to integrate...
by Neville Teller
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
One Year in the History of Israel and Palestine, which starts on 1 January and ends on 31 December 2010, traces the progress of efforts to bring Israelis and Palestinians to the negotiating table, recording the hopes and the setbacks as they occurred. It traces both the depressing cynicism of many...
by Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Samuel Thrope, Bernard Avishai
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
“[The Israeli Republic] suggests how the Iranian and Israeli leaders who feel such intense mutual hostility today actually mirror one another in certain ways, particularly in their foundational attitudes toward religious authority, political and economic populism, and the West. That a writer such...
Because It's Israel
An Aliyah Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
When young law student Arthur Miller books a trip to Israel for himself and his new wife Ronnie in the aftermath of the Six Day War, he unknowingly begins an odyssey that will last almost four decades. After thirty-five years of annual visits, he finally fulfills his dream of making aliyah*.* Join...
by Ahron Bregman
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
An authoritative and impassioned history of the aftermath of the Six Day War—by a former Israeli soldier—and a cogent argument for an end to the occupation.
In a move that would forever alter the map of the Middle East, Israel captured the West Bank, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip and Sinai...
Arab Minority Nationalism in Israel
The Politics of Indigeneity
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
National minorities and their behaviour have become a central topic in comparative politics in the last few decades. Using the relationship between the state of Israel and the Arab national minority as a case study, this book provides a thorough examination of minority nationalism and state-minority...
Lavi
The United States, Israel, and a Controversial Fighter Jet
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The Lavi fighter program, the largest weapons-development effort ever undertaken by the State of Israel, envisioned a new generation of high-performance aircraft. In a controversial strategy, Israel Aircraft Industries intended to develop and manufacture the fighters in Israel with American financial...
The Iron Wall
Israel and the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Avi Shlaim's The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World is the outstanding book on Israeli foreign policy, now thoroughly updated with a new preface and chapters on Israel's most recent leaders
In the 1920s, hard-line Zionists developed the doctrine of the 'Iron Wall': negotiations with the Arabs...
Cracks in the Wall
Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
After decades of occupation and creeping annexation, the situation on the ground in Palestine/Israel can only be described as a system of apartheid. Peace efforts have failed because of one, inconvenient truth: the Israeli maximum on offer does not meet the Palestinian minimum, or the standards of...