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    Cover of Hare and Tortoise Race Across Israel
    Chil­dren’s
    Hare and Tor­toise Race Across Israel
    Laura Gehl; Sarah Goodreau, illus.
    Essay

    “Sec­ond-Gen­er­a­tion” Forever

    Talia Carn­er​’s fourth nov­el, Hotel Moscow, was just released by Harper­Collins. It is the sto­ry of an Amer­i­can woman who trav­els to Rus­sia short­ly after the fall of…
    Talia Carn­er
    June 1, 2015
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    Chil­dren’s
    3 Falafels in My Pita
    Maya Friedman; Steve Mack, illus.
    Cover of The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers: When Hard Liners Opt For Peace
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    The Polit­i­cal Psy­chol­o­gy of Israeli Prime Min­is­ters: When Hard Lin­ers Opt For Peace
    Yael S. Aronoff
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    At Home in Exile: Why Dias­po­ra is Good for the Jews
    Alan Wolfe
    Cover of One Land, Two States: Israel and Palestine as Parallel States
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    One Land, Two States: Israel and Pales­tine as Par­al­lel States
    Mark Levine and Mathias Mossberg, ed.
    Cover of The Israeli Mind: How the Israeli National Character Shapes Our World
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    The Israeli Mind: How the Israeli Nation­al Char­ac­ter Shapes Our World
    Alon Gratch
    Cover of The Ambassadors: A Novel
    Fic­tion
    The Ambas­sadors: A Novel
    George Lern­er
    Cover of Let There Be Water: Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World
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    Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solu­tion for a Water-Starved World
    Seth M. Siegel
    Cover of Drawn from Water: An American Poet, an Ethiopian Family, an Israeli Story
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    Drawn from Water: An Amer­i­can Poet, an Ethiopi­an Fam­i­ly, an Israeli Story
    Dina Elen­bo­gen
    Essay

    Israeli Writ­ers Embrac­ing English

    by Ranen Omer-Sher­manBooks Dis­cussed in This EssayThe Best Place on Earth: Sto­ries by Ayelet TsabariTalk­ing to the Ene­my by Avn­er MandelmanThe Peo­ple of For­ev­er Are…
    Ranen Omer-Sher­man
    May 19, 2015
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    Chil­dren’s
    Watch Out for Fly­ing Kids!: How Two Cir­cus­es Two Coun­tries and Nine Kids Con­front Con­flict and Build Community
    Cyn­thia Levinson
    Cover of Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
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    Killing a King: The Assas­si­na­tion of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remak­ing of Israel
    Dan Ephron
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    Sav­ing Sophie
    Ronald H. Balson
    Cover of An Improbable Friendship: The Remarkable Lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda
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    An Improb­a­ble Friend­ship: The Remark­able Lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Pales­tin­ian Raymonda
    Antho­ny David
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    A Street Divid­ed: Sto­ries from Jerusalem’s Alley of God
    Dion Nis­senbaum
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