Israel category: 987 books
The Invention of the Land of Israel
From Holy Land to Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
What is a homeland, and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for them throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land?Following the acclaimed and controversial Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious...
by Dan Ephron
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and one of the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of the Year.
The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin remains the single most consequential event in Israel’s recent history, and one that fundamentally altered the trajectory...
by Jean Lartéguy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Surrounded on all borders but its western coastline by hostile and aggressive neighbors, the state of Israel resembles the walled city of the Middle Ages. But its walls are not stone and mortar, they are flesh and blood—they are the soldiers, both men and women—the airmen, the intelligence, the...
Obstacle to Peace
The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Why has peace in the Middle East remained so elusive?
Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict provides the answer while also explaining why you won’t hear it from U.S. government officials or the mainstream media.
With incisive and provocative analysis,...
Youth Encounter Programs in Israel
Pedagogy, Identity, and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
As the level of distrust and alienation between Jews and Palestinians has risen over the past fifteen years, the support for grassroots organizations’ attempts to bring these two groups closer has stagnated. Jewish-Palestinian youth encounter programs that flourished in the wake of the Oslo Accords...
Ben-Gurion
A Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
Israel’s current president gives us a dramatic and revelatory biography of Israel’s founding father and first prime minister.
Shimon Peres was in his early twenties when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that Ben-Gurion would lead through...
by Gideon Levy
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Israel’s 2009 invasion of Gaza was an act of aggression that killed over a thousand Palestinians and devastated the infrastructure of an already impoverished enclave. The Punishment of Gaza shows how the ground was prepared for the assault and documents its continuing effects.
From 2005—the...
The Gatekeepers
Inside Israel’s Internal Security Agency
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The companion to the Oscar-nominated documentary—six former heads of Shin Bet honestly assess their attempts to stop Palestinian terror in Israel.
Imagine the following situation: You have just received a tip that six suicide bombers are making their way into the heart of Israel’s major cities,...
Unveiling the Kings of Israel
Revealing the Bible's Archaeological History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
“Correctly interpreted, the historical records of Egypt and Israel show a remarkable consistency with the Bible records which we can accept as not only inspiring but entirely reliable.”
-From the Introduction
Unearth the history of the small nation of Israel – the troubled and devastating...
The Two O'Clock War
The 1973 Yom Kippur Conflict and the Airlift That Saved Israel
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2002
It's usually called the Yom Kippur War. Or sometimes the October War. The players that surround it are familiar: Sadat and Mubarak, Meir and Sharon, Nixon and Kissinger, Brezhnev and Dobyrnin. It was a war that brought Arab and Jew into vicious conflict. A war in which Israel almost unleashed her...
The Yom Kippur War
And the Airlift Strike That Saved Israel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
It's usually called the Yom Kippur War. Or sometimes the October War. The players that surround it are familiar: Sadat and Mubarak, Meir and Sharon, Nixon and Kissinger, Brezhnev and Dobyrnin. It was a war that brought Arab and Jew into vicious conflict. A war in which Israel almost unleashed her...
![Cover of Key To The Sinai: The Battles For Abu Agelia In The 1956 And 1967 Arab Israeli Wars [Illustrated Edition]](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2014/august/300x300/9781782895794-016v_300x.jpg)
by George W. Gawrych
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Includes 5 figures and 21 maps]
Situated between the Suez Canal and Israel and marked by the harsh environment of the central Sinai lies Abu Ageila, an unprepossessing area of low ridges and hills through which passes the best-surfaced road in the peninsula. Owing to its location on the central route,...
Soldier in the Sinai
A General's Account of the Yom Kippur War
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
In surprise attacks on Israel in October 1973, Egyptian and Syrian forces crossed ceasefire lines to enter the Israeli-held Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights, igniting what became known as the Yom Kippur War. In the north, Israel succeeded in blocking the Syrian advance, but in the south, it failed...
The Harp and the Shield of David
Ireland, Zionism and the State of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2007
Eliash examines the relationship between Ireland and the Zionist movement, and the state of Israel from the context of Palestine’s partition and the delay in Ireland’s recognition of the State of Israel until 1963.
Analyzing the Irish attitude to the partition of Palestine through an analogy...