Israel category: 987 books
The Impossible Takes Longer
Memoirs of Vera Weizmann (wife of Israel's first President) as told to David Tutaev
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Vera Chatzman was born on November 27, 1881, in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. She was a medical student soon to become a pediatrician when, in 1906, she married Chaim Weizmann, a chemist already involved in the Zionist movement. For the next 46 years of their marriage, Vera was his companion,...
Hero of the Crossing
How Anwar Sadat and the 1973 War Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In eleven dramatic years, Anwar Sadat changed history—not just that of Egypt, or of the Middle East, but of the entire world. As the architect of the 1973 war against Israel, he gained the support of other Arab nations and inspired the oil embargo that transformed the global economy. Following the...
The Bible on Location
Off the Beaten Path in Ancient and Modern Israel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In this innovative guidebook Julie Baretz takes readers to twenty-one off-the-beaten-path locations in Israel where Bible stories are said to have happened. At each site she sets the scene by relating the historical context of the event, then follows with the biblical text itself and her own lively...
by Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
SIX DAYS IN JUNEHow Israel Won the 1967 Arab-Israeli WarEric HammelMilitary historian Eric Hammel becomes the first chronicler of the 1967 Six Day War to unite the story of development of Israels bold brand of military training and planning with a detailed narrative account of her breathtaking victories...
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by Dr. George W. Gawrych
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes 8 maps and more than 20 illustrations
Armies appear to learn more from defeat than victory. In this regard, armed forces that win quickly, decisively, and with relative ease face a unique challenge in attempting to learn from victory. The Israel Defense Forces certainly fell into this...
Operation Exodus
From the Nazi Death Camps to the Promised Land: A Perilous Journey That Shaped Israel's Fate
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
The riveting chronicle of Jewish war survivors and their flight on the dramatic voyage of Exodus 1947, the international incident that gained sympathy for the formation of Israel
The underground Jewish group Haganah arranged for the purchase of a small American steamer as part of an ambitious...
One Land, Two States
Israel and Palestine as Parallel States
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
One Land, Two States imagines a new vision for Israel and Palestine in a situation where the peace process has failed to deliver an end of conflict. "If the land cannot be shared by geographical division, and if a one-state solution remains unacceptable," the book asks, "can the land...
Sword and Shield of Zion
The Israel Air Force in the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1948–2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The Israel Air Force (IAF) has accumulated as much battle experience as any air force in the world during the post-Second World War era, and it has recorded many outstanding accomplishments throughout a seemingly endless string of interstate wars, asymmetrical wars, counterinsurgency campaigns, and...
by Edwin Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
The Wisdom Of Israel
by Edwin Collins
This is a short anthology of passages from the Jewish wisdom literature of the Talmud and Midrash, part of the Wisdom of the East series. Unlike some similar compilations, Collins documents where possible the source of his quotations. He also apparently translated from the originals rather than reusing existing English renderings.
by Laura Etheredge
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
A long, often fractious history has shaped relations between present-day Israel and the emerging Palestinian autonomous areas. This area of the MIddle East has a significant role as the cradle of two of the world’s major monotheistic religions and as well as a home to ancient sacred monuments and...
by Rebecca Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Tel Aviv, the second largest city in Israel, is a surprisingly interesting tourist destination in the Middle East. Located on the Mediterranean Coast the city is located just 60 km to the west of Jerusalem. With an active cultural scene, a beautiful waterfront and city beach, and a thriving nightlife,...
Citizen Strangers
Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestinian Arabs comprised just fifteen percent of the population but held a much larger portion of its territory. Offered immediate suffrage rights and, in time, citizenship status, they nonetheless found their movement, employment,...
A Half Century of Occupation
Israel, Palestine, and the World's Most Intractable Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The Israel-Palestine conflict is one of the world’s most polarizing confrontations. Its current phase, Israel’s “temporary” occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, turned a half century old in June 2017. In these timely and provocative essays, Gershon Shafir asks three questions—What...
by Randall S. Geller
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This study examines the attitudes and policies on all sides of the majority/minority divide in Israel during the state’s formative decade, and how the social, political, and strategic decisions made vis-à-vis the non-Jewish populations then continue to impact this unique Middle Eastern state today....