Israel category: 987 books
Spies of No Country
Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
**“Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing.” —The New York Times Book Review
Award-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff—but...
by Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi, Sandra Shurin
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
“Manya Shochat was a truly unusual woman, a figure of extreme complexity who might have come out of a nineteenth-century Russian novel. In her life’s story we find a full enactment — rare in one person — of the main qualities, some of them contradictory, which played such a prominent role...
Making David into Goliath
How the World Turned Against Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
During the Six-Day War of 1967, polls showed that Americans favored the Israelis over the Arabs by overwhelming margins. In Europe, support for Israel ran even higher. In the United Nations Security Council, a British resolution essentially gave Israel the terms of peace it sought, and when the Arabs...
by Alan Dershowitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
The Case for Israel is an ardent defense of Israel's rights, supported by indisputable evidence.
Presents a passionate look at what Israel's accusers and detractors are saying about this war-torn country.
Dershowitz accuses those who attack Israel of international bigotry and backs up his argument...
The Founding Myths of Israel
Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
The well-known historian and political scientist Zeev Sternhell here advances a radically new interpretation of the founding of modern Israel. The founders claimed that they intended to create both a landed state for the Jewish people and a socialist society. However, according to Sternhell, socialism...
The Crescent Moon and the Magen David
Turkish-Israeli Relations Through the Lens of the Turkish Public
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The nationalist outlook of the Turkish state since the beginning of the Republican era in 1923 targeted uniform identity formation. While Turkey did not recognize the existence of ethnic identities as long as they were Muslim, non-Muslims were challenging this ideal. During this social engineering,...
Alley-Oop to Aliyah
African American Hoopsters in the Holy Land
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Every season, dozens of African American basketball players pack up their sneakers to play and live in Israel. They eat Israeli food, navigate Israeli hustle and bustle, experience cultural and religious customs in the world’s only Jewish country, and voluntarily expose themselves to the omnipresent...
by Gershom Gorenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Prominent Israeli journalist GershomGorenbergoffers a penetrating and provocativelook at how the balance of power in Israel has shifted toward extremism,threatening the prospects for peace and democracy as the Israeli-Palestinianconflict intensifies. Informing his examination using interviews in Israel...
Love Triangles
Discovering Jesus the Jew in Today's Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
A Jewish woman’s unconventional quest to find Jesus in modern Israel
With candor and an intimate knowledge of the Land and its people, Bobbie Ann Cole takes you on some intriguing time travel to Israel such as to the ceremonial slaughtering of Passover lambs in the nearby temple, as Jesus...
The Abyss
Bridging the Divide between Israel and the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Eli Avidar looks into the abyss that divides Israel from its Arab neighbors, in order to understand the inherent flaws, prevailing misunderstandings, and tragic mistakes that characterize the relations and bloodletting, and how, if at all possible, to bridge the differences. In doing so, he offers...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
*Discusses the origins of Hamas and important leaders like Sheikh Yassin, Khaled Meshaal, and others. *Covers the Middle East conflict from the formation of Israel to today. *Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.*Includes a Table of Contents. In 1988, a recently organized militant...
Inside Israel's Northern Command
The Yom Kippur War on the Syrian Border
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
On October 6, 1973, Israel's Northern Command was surprised by the thunder of cannon fire and the sight of dense, black smoke. A Syrian force of 1,400 tanks supported by artillery and air power had attacked from the north while the Egyptian military invaded the Sinai Peninsula in the south. Syria...
by Insight Guides
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
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Israel is intense. This new edition covers Israel's top attractions, from the holy sites of Jerusalem's Old City, Bethlehem and Nazareth to the pleasures of the coast and a Dead Sea mud...
by Lawrence J. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Americans and the Birth of Israel tells the dramatic story of how a ragtag group of Americans of all religions worked, often in secret and facing the possibility of arrest and imprisonment, to make sure that after the Holocaust a refuge for Jews would be born. It is a story that is not well-known...