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    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
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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
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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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    Yes, It’s Possible
    Ehud Diskin
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    Days of Ticho: Empire, Man­date, Med­i­cine, and Art in the Holy Land
    David Rei­fler
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    Madame Ambas­sador: Behind the Scenes with a Can­did Israeli Diplomat
    Tova Herzl
    Essay

    Amer­i­can Jew­ish Writ­ers and Israel

    Ear­li­er this week, Michael C. Kotzin wrote a two-part series on rad­i­cal Islamism’s war against the Jews. You can find part one here and part two here. He has been…
    Michael C. Kotzin
    May 8, 2015
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    Becom­ing Israeli: Nation­al Ideals & Every­day Life in the 1950s
    Anat Helman
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    Ezra’s Aliyah
    Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod
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    Israeli Cul­tures in Perspective
    David Derovan
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    Ben-Guri­on: Father of Mod­ern Israel
    Anita Shapira; Anthony Berris, trans.
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    Leslie Stein
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