Israel category: 987 books
by Ray Eichenberger
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
A Christian travels to modern day Israel in search of the historical and spiritual Jesus. This work is largely a spiritual guide, partly a travel guide, and partly a diary as to what the author encountered on a 2016 trip to the Holy Land.
This book narrates the author's...
Rise and Kill First
The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, hailed by The New York Times as “an exceptional work, a humane book about an incendiary subject.”
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN HISTORY
NAMED...
Walking Israel
A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
From the much lauded author of Breaking News comes a version of Walking the Bible just for Israel.
With its dense history of endless conflict and biblical events, Israel's coastline is by far the most interesting hundred miles in the world. As longtime chief of NBC's Tel Aviv news bureau, Martin...
by Lonely Planet, Daniel Robinson, Dan Savery Raz
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s Israel & the Palestinian Territories is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Discover the ruins of ancient Jericho, take an...
by Netanel Lorch
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Netanel Lorch, who fought as an officer in Jerusalem during Israel’s War of Independence and later founded the Israel Defense Forces’ Historical Section, offers a detailed military history of the years 1947-49. The book begins with the tensions of the British Mandate period in Palestine, including...
by Hirsh Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
The question Can Israel survive?” has echoed loud for Israelis-and Jews, their supporters and adversaries worldwide-since the Holocaust. The recent upheavals in Egypt, Tunisia and beyond have raised it anew. Israeli journalist and security analyst Hirsh Goodman set out to answer it, through rigorous...
The Land of Blood and Honey
The Rise of Modern Israel
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
The definitive one-volume history of Israel by its most distinguished historian
From its Zionist beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century through the past sixty, tumultuous years, the state of Israel has been, as van Creveld argues, "the greatest success story in the entire twentieth...
Liberal Oasis
The Truth About Israel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Israel has become the most reviled of states; and the international Left-world church bodies, British labor unions, American human rights groups and the like-has been especially vociferous in its condemnations. But, ironically, Israel's humane accomplishments in the very realms that the Left most cherishes...
Our Separate Ways
The Struggle for the Future of the U.S.Israel Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The future of the relationship between Israel and America is deeply uncertain: the current political leadership of both countries is hostile to the other, there is no longer a sense of shared strategic focus, and demographic changes are forcing the countries further apart with every passing year....
Friends In Deed
Inside the U.S. - Israel Alliance, 1948 - 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 1994
As is said of ancient Rome, the alliance between the United States and Israel was not built in a day. Indeed, there was no guarantee that this unique partnership would ever be built at all. It pairs two countries that are separated not only by five thousand miles of land and sea but by other obvious...
What Israel Means to Me
By 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, Scholars, Politicians, and Journalists
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Personal and Passionate Reflections on the Land and Its People
"The Mediterranean landscape, the exuberance of the Israelis, the way politics is a matter of life and death there-all these things beguiled me."
-Erica Jong, author
"What does Israel mean to me? Courage. The...
by Sarah Schulman
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to Israel to give the keynote address at an LGBT studies conference at Tel Aviv University, Schulman declines,...
The Yom Kippur War
The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
An updated edition that sheds new light on one of the most dramatic reversals of military fortune in modern history.
The easing of Israeli military censorship after four decades has enabled Abraham Rabinovich to offer fresh insights into this fiercest of Israel-Arab conflicts. A surprise Arab...
by Robert Gandt
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
“Reads like a World War II thriller, only better because every word is true.… One of the great untold stories of history. Robert Gandt has brought it vividly, unforgettably to life.” —Steven Pressfield, best-selling author of Gates of Fire
In 1948, when the newly founded nation of Israel...