Talented pastry chef Carine Goren can do better than this cookbook, writes Efrat Michaeli.
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Oversimplifying the complexity of Israel's security and its settlements
In order to get to his point, that the real threat to Israel’s survival is the Jews who live over the Green Line and not the Arabs (and Persians) from around the region, Goodman must first defuse a number of military menaces Jerusalem likes to bandy about as actual physical threats to Israel’s survival.
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A book of standard Israeli cakes, meant to appeal to the masses
And for his next trick ...
Fed up with the way his books were being handled by local publishers and bookstores, experimental novelist Alex Epstein chose to offer readers his latest volume of short-short stories on Facebook.
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A story of Palestinian refugees, but not a 'nakba book'
Tomer Gardi's debut book "Rock, Paper" examines the establishment of the Beit Ussishkin museum on Kibbutz Dan, where the writer was born. He found the museum's archives dusty but far from dull.
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David Ben-Gurion's legacy, through Shimon Peres' eyes
Shimon Peres’ political biography of his mentor and former boss David Ben-Gurion ends up being as much about him as about Israel’s founding father. But this is not unreasonable, as Peres is as much the Old Man’s successor as he was his aide
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An adjustment to Israeli society - not a revolution
Like the leaders of last summer’s social protests, Yaron Zelekha is not trying to change the existing economic order, but rather to point out and correct its injustices
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Once upon an app
A child's complaint about a pictureless bedtime story led to the collaborative design of a new iPad app, billed as 'a story creator for kids'.
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Hanne Blank on the surprisingly short history of heterosexuality
Blank, an American expert on the history of sexuality, did not intend her new book to be a brief against conventional relationships, but rather as a survey of the subject.
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Claustrophobic Israeli dynamic, in the heart of the open desert
Daniella Carmi writes political fiction, in the most urgent and immediate sense of the term. She does not pass up the opportunity to comment on the new and poisonous morality of these times − which has nothing to do with either Judaism or democracy, and has no interest in offering either solace or hope.
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'It's not about me' - Ilana Hammerman speaks out
On the real issues involved in the Am Oved CEO affair, in response to 'Policing the publisher' by Yehuda Melzer (Haaretz Magazine, January 20).
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Sapir literary prize for 2011 awarded to Haggai Linik
Linik, 59, will receive NIS 150,000 and his book, "Prompter Needed," will be translated into Arabic and one other language of his choice.
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A woman after my own heart
A saga of tribal war, blood money and a rebellious woman - a translation of one of the most beautiful works of the acclaimed pre-Islamic poet Zuhair bin Abi Sulma.
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The giant and his heir: Ariel Sharon, as remembered by his son
Gilad Sharon’s biography of his father not only describes Ariel Sharon as an unflawed and untainted military leader and politician. It also seeks to polish the author’s own public image, perhaps as a stepping-stone to to a political career of his own
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