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    Hope Val­ley: A Novel
    Havi­va Ner-David
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    Non­fic­tion
    If Any­one Calls, Tell Them I Died: A Memoir
    Emanuel Rosen
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    The War of Return
    Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf; Eylon Levy (trans.)
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    Dig­ging Up Armaged­don: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon
    Eric H. Cline
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    What Poets Write About When They Write About Hebrew

    Nao­mi B. Sokoloff
    July 9, 2020
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    The Dri­ve
    Yair Assulin, Jessica Cohen (trans.)  
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    To the Moon on a Plas­tic Bot­tle: The Sto­ry Behind Israel’s Start-Up Babies
    Dan Raviv and Linor Bar-El
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    Shuk: From Mar­ket to Table, the Heart of Israeli Home Cooking
    Einat Admony, Janna Gur
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    Apeirogon
    Colum McCann
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    Hard Hat Cat
    Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh, Maxine Lee (illus.)
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    ‘Mor­tal­i­ty Faced You as a Ques­tion’: Ilana Masad on Liv­ing through Grief

    Ilana Masad
    May 11, 2020
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    All My Mother’s Lovers 
    Ilana Masad
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    Ten Rules for Writers

    Etgar Keret
    April 27, 2020
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    House on End­less Waters
    Emuna Elon; Anthony Berris and Linda Yechiel, trans.
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    Insider/​Outsider: Writ­ing Fic­tion in Eng­lish in Israel

    Miryam Sivan
    March 19, 2020
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    Adeena Suss­man
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