Israel category: 987 books
by Shmuel Katz
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
Shmuel Katz’s detailed and comprehensive biography of Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880–1940) is an unabashedly partisan defense of one of the most complex Zionists of the early 20th century. Jabotinsky was a Russian poet, playwright, journalist, and novelist as well as the founder of Revisionist Zionism...
by Benny Morris
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account of the military engagements, it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Benny Morris probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly...
Mossad
The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
For decades, Israel's renowned security arm, the Mossad, has been widely recognized as the best intelligence service in the world. In Mossad, authors Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous,...
A View from the Eye of the Storm
Terror and Reason in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In 2004, internationally known physicist Haim Harari was invited to address the advisory board of a major multinational corporation. In a short speech he offered a penetrating analysis of the components of terror, and presented a passionate call for a new era in the Middle East. The speech, entitled...
On the Brink
Israel and Palestine on the Eve of the 2014 Gaza Invasion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
On the Brink is a compelling collection of short essays that chronicle a fact-finding and solidarity visit the author made to the West Bank and Israel during the last three weeks of June 2014. Physician, author, filmmaker, and longtime activist Alice Rothchild uses her powers of careful observation...
Imagining Zion
Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This timely book tells the fascinating story of how Zionists colonizers planned and established nearly 700 agricultural settlements, towns, and cities from the 1880s to the present. This extraordinary activity of planners, architects, social scientists, military personnel, politicians, and settlers is...
Unholy Land
In Search of Hope in Israel/Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Traveling major highways and secondary roads, walking unpaved paths, the author recites contradictions of the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, the Holy Land. Here, religion uneasily confronts politics and democracy, sublime nature undergoes militarization, and hospitality and...
Destination Jerusalem
Isis, “convert or Die,” Christian Persecution and Preparing for the Days Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
A Christian refugee sobs, Jesus, forgive them! after fleeing the deadly rampage of Islamic State fighters. A Yazidi mother tells of the horrific fate her late son suffered at the hands of these marauding Muslim terrorists. An Israeli woman recounts how Hamas jihadists rose like zombies from the beach...
Letters to Palestine
Writers Respond to War and Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s seven-week bombing campaign and ground invasion of Gaza in the summer of 2014, resulted in half a million displaced Gazans, tens of thousands of destroyed homes, and more than 2,000 deaths—and, yet, it was only the latest in a long series of assaults endured...
by M.M. Silver
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
Examines the phenomenon of Exodus and its influence on post–World War II understandings of Israel’s beginnings.
Jerusalem & Tel Aviv Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 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 Holy City of Jerusalem has always fascinated travelers and pilgrims with its rich history and culture that dates...
Gideon's Spies
The Secret History of the Mossad
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In the secret world of spies and covert operations, no other intelligence service continues to be as surrounded by myth and mystery as the Mossad. Gordon Thomas reveals that all too often the truth exceeds all the fantasies about the Mossad. Revised and updated for 2015, this new edition includes:
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No Mission Is Impossible
The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
A riveting follow-up to Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal’s account of the most memorable missions of the Mossad, No Mission Is Impossible sheds light on some of the most harrowing, nail-biting operations of the Israeli Special Forces.
In No Mission Is Impossible, Michael Bar-Zohar and...
The Eve of Destruction
The Untold Story of the Yom Kippur War
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
On October 6, 1973—Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar—the Arab world launched a bold and ingeniously conceived surprise attack against Israel. After three days of intense, bloody combat, an unprepared Israel was fighting for survival, while the Arabs, with massive forces closing...