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    Cover of Shadow Strike: Inside Israel's Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power
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    Shad­ow Strike: Inside Israel’s Secret Mis­sion to Elim­i­nate Syr­i­an Nuclear Power
    Yaakov Katz
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    In the Jerusalem Forest 
    Devora Busheri (auth.), Noa Kelner (illus.)
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    Shim­ri’s Big Idea
    Elka Weber (auth.), Inbal Gigi Bousidan (illus.)
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    And the Bride Closed the Door
    Ronit Matalon; Jessica Cohen, trans.
    Cover of Hebrew Roots, Jewish Routes: A Tribal Language In A Global World
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    Hebrew Roots, Jew­ish Routes: A Trib­al Lan­guage In A Glob­al World
    Jere­my Benstein
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    Grow­ing Up Below Sea Lev­el: A Kib­butz Childhood
    Rachel Biale
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    Hip Set
    Michael Fer­tik
    Cover of Living in Heaven Coping with Hell
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    Liv­ing in Heav­en Cop­ing with Hell
    Clif­ford Sobin
    Cover of The Conflict over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate
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    The Con­flict over the Con­flict: The Israel/​Palestine Cam­pus Debate
    Ken­neth S. Stern
    Cover of The Unstoppable Startup: Mastering Israel's Secret Rules of Chutzpah
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    The Unstop­pable Start­up: Mas­ter­ing Israel’s Secret Rules of Chutzpah
    Uri Adoni
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    Law and the Arab-Israeli Con­flict: The Tri­als of Palestine
    Steven E. Zipperstein
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    We Stand Divid­ed: The Rift Between Amer­i­can Jews and Israel
    Daniel Gordis
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    A Jew­ish-Pales­tin­ian Children’s Book: How Daniel and Ismail Came to Be

    Ilan Sta­vans
    August 12, 2019
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    The Leg­end of Safed: Life and Fan­ta­sy in the City of Kabbalah
     Eli Yassif, Haim Watzman (trans.)
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    Bod­ies, Bor­ders, and Desire

    Three new nov­els set in Israel explore Jew­ish – Arab relationships.

    Ranen Omer-Sher­man
    August 5, 2019
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    Masa­da: From Jew­ish Revolt to Mod­ern Myth
    Jodi Mag­ness
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