| By: Menachem Michelson
Price: $39.99 $35.99 ISBN: 9650512799
"Almost unnoticed alongside the hectic
life of the average Israeli and the frenetic political pace in Israel,
the clock of the Israeli Defense Forces ticks minute by minute, 24
hours a day.
The IDF never stops. Without break... without letup... one activity
runs into another. We... Read More
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| By: Barbara Sofer
Price: $15.99 $14.39 ISBN: 9781580131155
Ilan Ramon's final flight aboard Space Shuttle Columbia made him an
Israeli hero. Discover how this young boy who always wanted to fly
became Israel's first astronaut.
“This clearly written, easy to understand, fact filled biography will certainly appeal to elementary aged readers.” – AJL... Read More
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| By: Ian Black, Benny Morris
Price: $17.99 $16.19 ISBN: 9780802132864
This is the first documented, comprehensive history of all three of
Israel's intelligence services, from their origins in the 1930s,
through Israel's five wars, up to the present, with a new chapter
updating the book through the Gulf War. Highly readable and
exhaustively researched, it... Read More
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| By: Zvi Aharoni, Wilhelm Dietl
Price: $22.95 $20.66 ISBN: 0471193771
On May 24, 1960, David Ben-Gurion, prime minister and founder of Israel, stood before the Knesset and made a startling announcement: "I have to inform the Knesset that, some time ago, Israeli security forces found one of the greatest Nazi criminals, Adolf Eichmann, who, together with other... Read More
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| By: Shalom Freedman
Price: $24.00 $21.60 ISBN: 9657108810
Chief Rabbi Brigadier-General Shlomo Goren (1918–1994) made a unique and unforgettable contribution to the
Jewish people. More than any other person, he embodied the ancient
ideal of being both a great Jewish scholar and a remarkable soldier
in the service of God and the... Read More
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| By: Rodger W. Claire
Price: $14.95 $13.46 ISBN: 9780767914000
From the earliest days of his dictatorship, Saddam Hussein had vowed to
destroy Israel. So when France sold Iraq a top-of-the-line nuclear
reactor in 1975, the Israelis were justifiably concerned—especially
when they discovered that Iraqi scientists had already formulated a
secret program to... Read More
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| By: Amnon Sharon
Price: $14.95 $13.46 ISBN: 9652293679
A story of sacrifice and heroism, Sane in Damascus tells the compelling
and engaging tale of Amnon Sharon, an officer in the Israel Defense
Forces who fell captive during the Yom Kippur War of 1973 and was held
in a Syrian prison for eight long months.In
his book, Sharon... Read More
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| By: Daniel Gordis
Price: $25.95 $23.36 ISBN: 9780471789628
The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, from intellectuals like
Tony Judt to hate-filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even
average Israelis are wondering if they wouldn't be better off somewhere
else. A country which once restored hope to Jews world-over now feels
itself slipping.... Read More
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| By: Michael B. Oren
Price: $17.95 $16.16 ISBN: 9780345461926
Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli
war never really ended. Every crisis that has ripped through this
region in the ensuing decades, from the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to the
ongoing "intifada, is a direct consequence of those six days of
fighting. Michael B.... Read More
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| By: Michael Karpin
Price: $15.00 $13.50 ISBN: 9780743265959
As Iran continues to develop its nuclear program and explicitly
denounces Israel, Michael Karpin's "The Bomb in the Basement" provides
important context for the ongoing tensions in the Middle East.
After
Israel won its war of independence in 1948, founding prime minister
David Ben-Gurion... Read More
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| By: Alan Dershowitz
Price: $25.95 $23.36 ISBN: 9780470379929
The explicit intent of this confrontational book is to intellectually
engage prominent "enemies of Israel" in "the open marketplace of
ideas." Harvard law professor Dershowitz ("The Case for Israel") begins
with a vehement denunciation of his onetime friend Jimmy Carter, and he
concludes with... Read More
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| By: Howard Blum
Price: $13.95 $12.56 ISBN: 9780060014001
A page-turning, headline-making narrative on the Yom Kippur War
that is, all at once, a war drama, a political history, as well as an
espionage story.
The Yom Kippur War is a turning point in the history of the Middle East
-- and a conflict that continues to influence and shape Israeli -... Read More
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| By: Bethe Schoenfeld
Price: $21.95 $19.76 ISBN: 9781934440100
The people who are interviewed in this book live on Kibbutz Gesher
Haziv in the Western Galilee of Israel, as does the author. This
kibbutz is just a few kilometers south of the Lebanese border. There
is a beautiful beach not far away, and the valley around the kibbutz
holds fields of wheat... Read More
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| By: Abraham Rabinovich
Price: $15.99 $14.39 ISBN: 9780805211245
Rabinovich, a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, has researched
thoroughly and written with clarity, balance and compassion for the
victims of a war much larger and fiercer than most Western readers have
believed. Anwar Sadat emerges as a major player, having reformed the
Egyptian Army and... Read More
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| By: Devra Speregen
Price: $10.95 $9.86 ISBN: 0827606427
Few rescue missions have succeeded like "Operation Thunderbolt," the
Israeli plan led by Yoni Netanyahu on July 4, 1976, to rescue 105
hijacked Jewish passengers held captive in Uganda's Entebbe Airport. In
her gripping biography Speregen introduces young readers to one of
Israel's bravest... Read More
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