Israel & Zionist History
1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War (2008)
Written by Benny Morris
Israel & Zionist History
1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East (2005)
Written by Tom Segev
Israel & Zionist History
A History of Zionism: From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel (2004)
Written by Walter Laquer
Israel & Zionist History
A History of the Jewish People (1985)
Written by H. H. Ben-Sasson (ed.)
Israel & Zionist History
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (1989)
Written by David Fromkin
Fiction
A Pigeon and a Boy (2007)
Written by Meir Shalev
The Conflict
A State Beyond the Pale: Europe’s Problem with Israel (2009)
Written by Robin Shepherd
Life in Israel | Autobiography
A Tale of Love and Darkness (2004)
Written by Amos Oz
Fiction
All The Rivers (2017)
Written by Dorit Rabinyan
Israel & Zionist History
Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948 (2008)
Written by Hillel Cohen
Life in Israel | Autobiography
At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land (2002)
Written by Yossi Klein Halevi
Israel & Zionist History | Biorgaphy
Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel (2014)
Written by Anita Shapira
Kids fiction (Age 4-7)
Ella’s Trip to Israel (2011)
Written by Vivian Newman
Historical Fiction
Exodus (1959)
Written by Leon Uris
Fiction
Friendly Fire (2009)
Written by A.B. Yehoshua
Life in Israel | Autobiography
Home to Stay: One American Family’s Chronicle of Miracles and Struggles in Contemporary Israel (2003)
Written by Daniel Gordis
Life in Israel
Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity: The Secular-Religious Impasse (2000)
Written by Asher Cohen and Bernard Susser
Life in Israel | Travel literature
Israel for Beginners: A Field Guide for Encountering the Israelis in Their Natural Habitat (2011)
Written by Angelo Colorni
The Conflict
Israel, Palestine and Peace: Essays (1995)
Written by Amos Oz
Israel & Zionist History | Reference work
Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn (2016)
Written by Daniel Gordis
Israel & Zionist History
Israel: A History (1998)
Written by Martin Gilbert
Israel & Zionist History
Jerusalem: City of Longing (2010)
Written by Simon Goldhill
Kids fiction (Age 8-11)
Keeping Israel Safe: Serving in the Israel Defense Forces (2008)
Written by Barbara Sofer
Israel & Zionist History
Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948 (1992)
Written by Anita Shapira
Innovation and the economy
Let There Be Water: Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World (2017)
Written by Seth M. Siegel
The Conflict | Non-fiction
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor (2018)
Written by Yossi Klein Halevi
The Conflict | Fiction
Mornings in Jenin (2010)
Written by Susan Abulhawa
The Conflict
Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2003)
Written by Mitchell Bard
Historical Fiction
O Jerusalem! (1972)
Written by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
Israel & Zionist History
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate (2001)
Written by Tom Segev
The Conflict
One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/ Palestine Conflict (2010)
Written by Benny Morris
Poetry
Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems: A Bilingual Edition (1981)
Written by Yehuda Amichai
The Conflict
Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End (2009)
Written by Daniel Gordis
Poetry
Selected Poems (2005)
Written by C.N. Bialik
Israel & Zionist History | Non-fiction
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (2003)
Written by Michael B. Oren
Innovation and the economy
Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle (2009)
Written by Dan Senor and Saul Singer
The Conflict
The Case for Israel (2003)
Written by Alan Dershowitz
Historical Fiction
The Dovekeepers: A Novel (2011)
Written by Alice Hoffman
Israel & Zionist History
The Israelis: Founders and Sons (1983)
Written by Amos Elon
Life in Israel
The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land (2005)
Written by Donna Rosenthal
Israel & Zionist History | Non-fiction
The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul (2000)
Written by Yoram Hazony
Kids fiction (Age 8-11)
The Man Who Flies with Birds (2009)
Written by Carole G. Vogel and Yossi Leshem
The Conflict | Non-fiction
The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace (2005)
Written by Dennis Ross
Kids fiction (Age 8-11)
The Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2003)
Written by Hagit Allon and Lena Zehavi
Israel & Zionist History | Biography
The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership (2010)
Written by Yehuda Avner
The Conflict
The Routledge Atlas of Arab-Israeli Conflict (1993)
Written by Martin Gilbert
Historical Fiction
The Source: A Novel (1965)
Written by James A. Michener
Life in Israel
The War on Women in Israel: A Story of Religious Radicalism and the Women Fighting for Freedom (2014)
Written by Elena Maryles Sztokman
The Conflict
The Yellow Wind (1988)
Written by David Grossman
Fiction
To the End of the Land (2010)
Written by David Grossman
Kids fiction (Age 8-11)
Understanding Israel (2004)
Written by Sol Scharfstein
The Conflict
Whose Land? A History of the Peoples of Palestine (1971)
Written by James Parkes
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