Israel category: 987 books
A History of Zionism
From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
From one of the most distinguished historians of our time comes the definitive general history of the Zionist movement.
Inside the Middle East
Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Acclaimed Israeli intelligence analyst Avi Melamed has spent more than thirty years interpreting Middle East affairs. His long-awaited Inside the Middle East challenges widely-accepted perceptions and provides a gripping and uniquely enlightening guide to make sense of the events unfolding in the...
My Father's Paradise
A Son's Search for His Family's Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their...
by Elinor Burkett
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Golda Meir was the first female head of state in the Western world and one of the most influential women in modern history. A blend of Emma Goldman and Martin Luther King Jr. in the guise of a cookie-serving grandmother, her uncompromising devotion to shaping and defending a Jewish homeland against...
by Michael J. Totten
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Prize-winning author and award-winning foreign correspondent Michael J. Totten returns with a riveting tour of some of the worst places on earth in the early 21st century.
From crumbling Havana, Cuba—still stubbornly communist decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall—to a comparatively...
Operation Thunderbolt
Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
*By the historical consultant to the major motion picture Seven Days in Entebbe*
The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David.
On June 27, 1976, an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris...
90 Minutes at Entebbe
The Full Inside Story of the Spectacular Israeli Counterterrorism Strike and the Daring Rescue of 103 Hostages
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The incredible story of an Israeli mission that rescued 103 hostages from a hijacked jetliner.
On June 27, 1976, Air France Flight 139 was hijacked by terrorists and flown to Entebbe Airport in Uganda. In the following agonizing days, Israeli passengers were singled out and held hostage. A...
Jerusalem, Drawn and Quartered
One Woman’s Year in the Heart of the Christian, Muslim, Armenian, and Jewish Quarters of Old Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
On a night in 1999 when Sarah Tuttle-Singer was barely 18, she was stoned by Palestinian kids just outside one of the gates to the Old City of Jerusalem. In the years that followed, she was terrified to explore the ancient city she so loved.
But, sick of living in fear, she has now chosen to...
Israel’s Lightning Strike
The raid on Entebbe 1976
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
The Israeli Special Forces' operation at Entebbe goes down in history as one of the most audacious counter-terrorist assaults ever conducted. On 27 June 1976, four terrorists – two of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and two of the German Baader-Meinhof terrorist group – highjacked...
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER KAI BIRD’S fascinating memoir of his early years spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon provides an original and illuminating perspective into the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Weeks before the Suez War of 1956, four-year-old Kai Bird, son of a garrulous,...
Hamas vs. Fatah
The Struggle For Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
In June 2007 civil war broke out in the Gaza Strip between two rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah. Western peace efforts in the region always focused on reconciling two opposing fronts: Israel and Palestine. Now, this careful exploration of Middle East history over the last two decades reveals...
Hamas
From Resistance to Government
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
When the radical Islamist group Hamas was elected to lead Palestine in 2006, the Western world was shocked. How had the majority of Palestinians come to support an extremist organization and how would the group’s new political power affect the larger Israel/Palestine conflict?
Italian journalist...
I Shall Not Hate
A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Search for Common Ground Award
Middle East Institute Award
Finalist, Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
Stavros Niarchos Prize for Survivorship
Nobel Peace Prize nominee
"A necessary lesson against hatred and revenge" -Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
"In...
Jerusalem 1913
The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter examines the true history of the discord between Israel and Palestine with surprising results
Though the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict have traditionally been traced to the British Mandate (1920-1948) that ended with the creation of the Israeli state,...