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    Cover of The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland―Then, Now, Tomorrow
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    The Zion­ist Ideas: Visions for the Jew­ish Homeland―Then, Now, Tomorrow
    Gil Troy; Natan Sharansky, fwd.
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    Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Lega­cy of the Six-Day War
    Micah Goodman; Eylon Levy, trans.
    Cover of Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered: One Woman’s Year in the Heart of the Christian, Muslim, Armenian, and Jewish Quarters of Old Jerusalem
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    Jerusalem Drawn and Quar­tered: One Woman’s Year in the Heart of the Chris­t­ian, Mus­lim, Armen­ian, and Jew­ish Quar­ters of Old Jerusalem
    Sarah Tuttle-Singer
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    Jerusalem: The Expe­ri­en­tial Guidebook
    Tali Kaplinski Tarlow
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    All Eyes on Alexandra
    Anna Levine; Chiara Pasqualotto, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Pick­led Watermelon
    Esty Schachter; Alex Orbe, illus.
    Cover of Fast Asleep in a Little Village in Israel
    Chil­dren’s
    Fast Asleep in a Lit­tle Vil­lage in Israel
    Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod; Tiphanie Beeke, illus.
    Cover of Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
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    Rise and Kill First: The Secret His­to­ry of Israel’s Tar­get­ed Assassinations
    Ronen Bergman
    Cover of In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea
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    In Search of Israel: The His­to­ry of an Idea
    Michael Brenner
    Cover of With Liberty and Justice: The Fifty Day Journey from Egypt to Sinai
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    With Lib­er­ty and Jus­tice: The Fifty Day Jour­ney from Egypt to Sinai
    Senator Joe Lieberman and Rabbi Ari D. Kahn
    Cover of The Sinking of the Patria
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    The Sink­ing of the Patria
    Judith Weinshall Liberman
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    The Dia­mond Set­ter: A Novel
    Moshe Sakal; Jessica Cohen, trans.
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    Israel: The Start-up Nation for Med­ical Innovation
    Robert A. Norman
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    Let­ters to My Pales­tin­ian Neighbor
    Yos­si Klein Halevi
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    My Spe­cial Needs Child, and Our Israel Story

    Jamie Kif­fel-Alcheh is writ­ing here as part of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s Vis­it­ing Scribe series.No one could have known it from my con­fi­dent smile, but I almost turned…
    Jamie Kif­fel-Alcheh
    April 20, 2018
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    Thou Shalt Inno­vate: How Israeli Inge­nu­ity Repairs the World
    Avi Jorisch
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