The slightly breathless yet fascinating story of how one little country forged its world-shaping high-tech industry from the sands of the desert and the mosquito-infested waters of the swamps.
The success of this new Israel edition of Pirkei Avot (Sayings of the Fathers ), stems from the text's accessible tone, its fact-packed commentary, and the book's elegantly inviting design.
Ron Leshem's second novel takes the reader on a journey into the Tehran underground, and a society filled with conflicting forces not so alien to Israelis.
Eight decades ago, half the population of the Bronx was Jewish, and the 'Champs-Elysees' of their world was the four-and-a-half-mile long Grand Concourse. Today, most of the Jews, and most of the glamour, are gone, but there are some signs of revival. A new book tells the story.
Despite the difficulty in understanding it, Ibn Ezra's 'Foundation of Awe' has long been viewed with great respect among Jewish scholars. Now this 12th century classic is available in an annotated Hebrew edition.
In her latest novel, E.M. Broner shifts between present day and the turbulent times of Sixties academia. But as we learn, the noble obligation to fight can sometimes lead to the irresistible temptation to preach
A key adviser to both presidents Bush details the radically different ways in which their two administrations set foreign policy, with most dramatic effect in the second Gulf War, which finally drove him from government service.
David Lehman looks at that amazing generation of songwriters who collectively turned out what we know as the 'American Song Book.' American, yes, but what gave their creations a Jewish identity?
A new book examines how the Syrian Heights became fixed in the Israeli mind as a threat, and why Levi Eshkol found it necessary to settle the Heights in order to promote peace with Syria.
The publication in Hebrew of Freud's final work is an opportunity to look at the valiant, if ultimately unsuccessful, attempt by the father of psychoanalysis to understand the origin of the Jews.
Heralded as a modern-day 'hakawati' - 'storyteller'- Rabih Alameddine moves between a drab Beirut of today and dizzying adventures to imagined places, incorporating humor, vivid images and impeccable timing.
Twenty-two years before Lenin proposed using cinema as a propaganda tool, a young Jewish student proposed filming life in the Land of Israel to help Zionist public relations
Nearly all of us have heard of the greatness of Maimonides, but the full range of his ambitions and the contributions he made to Jewish thought still boggle the mind
A new project by Ofer Vardi offers up his Grandma Rozsi's traditional Hungarian cuisine, but not in the traditional cookbook format, bringing to life an entire cultural and culinary world.
'Israel is Real' is based on the notion that the Jewish people are stuck in a vicious cycle, its leaders mere archetypes who repeat their mistakes in successive generations.
Enlisting her own, painful biography to relate the tale, Leah Aini has created a shattering novel, one that lends voice and shape to the masses of immigrants, transparent and disregarded, who have filled Tel Aviv's southern neighborhoods.
An examination of the 33rd president's motives in recognizing Israel may leave the reader puzzled. Did Truman feel any real support for Zionism, or was he just fishing for the votes of American Jews?
When American rabbi Zoe Klein, who had created a neo-biblical scroll supposedly written by the lover of Jeremiah, was told it wasn't marketable, she proceeded to write a full-length novel providing the scroll with a back-story.
Sixteen years after his death, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, who published so little in his own lifetime, continues to inspire new publications. Only now, for example, is the essay he considered his greatest philosophical work available in English translation.
Nicholson Baker presents pacifists as the heroes of World War II, a war he says could have been avoided, and for which the Allies bear responsibility no less than Hitler.
For Inbal, it takes a full year and a half to acknowledge that her baby boy is not developing properly. From that moment, she plunges into an existence dedicated solely to saving him from an undefined ailment.
Gal Hirsch's autobiography marks the first time a high-ranking officer who played a significant role in the conflict describes the Second Lebanon War from his own perspective.
Dalia Dorner had the very opposite of the privileged upbringing so many associate with 'elite' Supreme Court Justices. Perhaps it was those modest origins that made her legal opinions so full of empathy and social sensitivity.
His work - novels, stories, essays - ranged from the near-pornographic to the sublimely high-minded, but in all of it, Leonard Michaels remained a very Jewish writer, searching for meaning until the end of his life.
In writing that is both playful and poignant, an Israeli novelist finds power and meaning in the smallest gestures and phrases, and at the same time reminds us of the inadequacy of words.
A writer and self-described anarchist who looks back at a century of disasters and notes how they often served as an opportunity for humans to create ad hoc utopian communities
Do we really need a primer on being a grandparent? It's far less challenging than being a mother or father, but the job still comes with many pitfalls and stresses - which are addressed in this new guide
While many see Israel and its conflicts as the root of all evil, Egyptian-born journalist Magdi Allam points the finger at the Arab world. And the West, he says, has morally surrendered to extremist Islam
She edited the diaries of Thomas Mann, and with her husband, published three other books about the great writer's family. Now, at age 82, Inge Jens has brought out a memoir of her own turbulent life, and speaks about it with Haaretz
A thoroughly researched ?anthropological-culinary' book on Yemenite Jewish cuisine demonstrates how food is far more than just a mixture of ingredients
The creator of a new thriller series, featuring a Mossad operative named Dan Gordon, draws on his own years of experience gathering intelligence for the Americans
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