Blogs in February 2020

Chariots on the Highway 15th February 2020

Every year, young men come from all over the world to join the IDF and fight for Israel. They leave everything behind and becoming what known as lone soldiers. Tom, a young man from Kansas, has traveled to Israel...

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My Michael 15th February 2020

Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the most skillful modulations of tone and texture. A modern Israeli Madame Bovary.–New York Times Book Review Set in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael is the story of a remote and intense woman...

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Exodus 15th February 2020

Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon the towering novel of the twentieth century’s most dramatic geopolitical event.  Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power.  Here is...

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Barren Lives 15th February 2020

A peasant family, driven by the drought, walks to exhaustion through an arid land. As they shelter at a deserted ranch, the drought is broken and they linger, tending cattle for the absentee ranch owner, until the onset of...

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The Watermelon Boys 15th February 2020

It is the winter of 1915 and Iraq has been engulfed by the First World War. Hungry for independence from Ottoman rule, Ahmad leaves his peaceful family life on the banks of the Tigris to join the British-led revolt....

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