Israel category: 987 books
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Tel Aviv (Israel) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
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Kibbutz Virgin
A British Teenager's Account of Six Months Living on a Kibbutz in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Jonathan was a naïve eighteen-year-old who had just finished his A-levels. His cousin Andy suggested they fly to Israel in order to experience life on a kibbutz as a ‘volunteer’. Jonathan had never even heard the word kibbutz and he knew very little about Israel, but he agreed to take part in the...
by Hela Crown-Tamir
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
The purpose of How to Walk in the Footsteps of Jesus and the Prophets is to enable the Christian pilgrim and tourist to look up a Biblical site quickly in its alphabetical form, read the Biblical references, and travel to the sites throughout Israel and the Kingdom of Jordan.
by Angelo Colorni
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2011
This guide, based on first-hand, day-by-day survival of over three decades in Israel, will help you to first understand, then gradually accept, and eventually almost conform to the Israeli mentality, which in turn will enable you to first look like, then gradually behave like, and eventually almost...
Troubled Triangle
The United States, Turkey, and Israel in the New Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In the years after 2009, the once-warm relations between Turkey and Israel have deteriorated sharply. To complicate matters further, both countries are close partners of the United States. In April 2011, veteran Middle East analyst and policymaker William B. Quandt brought leading scholar-practitioners...
by Rebecca Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and is holy to the three major monotheistic religions of the world – Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Once considered the center of the world, the city of Jerusalem has always fascinated travelers and pilgrims with its rich history and culture that dates back...
Fantastic Victory
Israel’s Rendezvous with Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
This is the exciting account of Israel’s 1967 miracle six-day war. The unusual significance of this conflict was the breathtaking odds which were involved. Israel, with only 2.75 million people took on the combined opposition of 110 million people who were backed by the boastful might of the Soviet...
Ben-Gurion, Zionism and American Jewry
1948 - 1963
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Based on archival material, this intriguing book examines David Ben-Gurion’s influence on the relationship between the state of Israel, the Zionist Organization and American Jewry between 1948 and 1963 when he served as Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. The author discusses how Ben-Gurion...
The Holocaust Industry
Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2003
It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel’s evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today. Leaders of America’s Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a...
Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine
Population, Territory and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Surveillance is always a means to an end, whether that end is influence, management or entitlement. This book examines the several layers of surveillance that control the Palestinian population in Israel and the Occupied Territories, showing how they operate, how well they work, how they are augmented,...
The Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel
A Challenge to Collectivism
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
In this sharply argued volume, Orit Rozin reveals the flaws in the conventional account of Israeli society in the 1950s, which portrayed the Israeli public as committed to a collectivist ideology. In fact, major sectors of Israeli society espoused individualism and rejected the state-imposed collectivist...
Impossible Exodus
Iraqi Jews in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Between 1949 and 1951, 123,000 Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly established Israeli state. Lacking the resources to absorb them all, the Israeli government resettled them in maabarot, or transit camps, relegating them to poverty. In the tents and shacks of the camps, their living conditions were...
Condition Critical
Life and Death in Israel/Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Since 2003, obstetrician Alice Rothchild has traveled annually to Israel/Palestine with other concerned Americans, to learn about health and human rights situation of politically marginalized communities, especially Palestinians. Condition Critical presents key blog posts and analytical essays that...
State of Failure
Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The biggest obstacle to Palestinian statehood may not be Israel
In September 2011, president Mahmoud Abbas stood before the United Nations General Assembly and dramatically announced his intention to achieve recognition of Palestinian statehood. The United States roundly opposed the move then,...