History:

Israeli F-4 Phantom II Aces

Written by Shlomo Aloni
Illustrated by Jim Laurier

Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $15.95

The American manufactured F-4 Phantom II was used by the Israelis in air-to-ground missions, as an attack aircraft, and air-to-air missions as a fighter. Despite performing both roles with equal success the Israeli reliance on the Mirage III and Nesher delta fighters meant that the F-4 was used most regularly in... Read more >

Right to Exist
A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars
Written by Yaacov Lozowick

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: February 20, 2013
Price: $13.99

In July 2000, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat refused to negotiate a peace offer made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David. At the end of September the Palestinians then launched their second intifada, an outbreak of terrorism in the heart of Israel’s cities that continues to this day. The... Read more >

1948

Written by Yoram Kaniuk
Translated by Anthony Berris

Format: eBook, 190 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $9.99

Sixty years after fighting in Israel's War of Independence, Yoram Kaniuk tries to remember what exactly did—and did not—happen in his time as a teenage soldier in the Palmach. The result is a touchingly poignant and hauntingly beautiful memoir that the author himself considers a work of fiction, for what is... Read more >

Israeli Fortifications of the October War 1973

Written by Simon Dunstan
Illustrated by Steve Noon

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $13.95

The Bar Lev Line along the Suez Canal was born out of the overwhelming victory of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the Six Day War of 1967. Devastated by their defeat, the Egyptian army began a prolonged campaign of artillery bombardments of Israeli positions causing many casualties. Accordingly, the IDF... Read more >

The Israeli Army in the Middle East Wars 1948-73

Written by John Laffin
Illustrated by Mike Chappell

Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $13.95

Israel assumes in advance that defeat in war means an end to the Jewish nation, and it wages war accordingly. This fact influences the Israeli approach to its army and to the strategy, tactics, training and conduct of war. Surrounded by hostile nations, Israel has fought six victorious wars between 1948... Read more >

The Moral Lives of Israelis
Reinventing the Dream State
Written by David Berlin

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $17.95

The Moral Lives of Israelis explores the last ten years of life in Israel, a sixty-one-year-old country that has never not been in a state of war. The last words given to David Berlin by his father, a Sabra who had fought for Israel's independence, were not words of love for...

Read more >

Modern Israeli Tanks and Infantry Carriers 1985-2004

Written by Marsh Gelbart
Illustrated by Tony Bryan

Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $13.95

Over the last two decades, the Israel Defence Force (IDF) has introduced a variety of new AFVs. Old models such as the M48 and M60 have been improved beyond recognition, in the form of the Magach 7. The performance of Israel's indigenous Merkava tank has been similarly enhanced with new variants... Read more >

Hamas
From Resistance to Government
Written by Paola Caridi
Translated by Andrea Teti

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $24.95

When the radical Islamist group Hamas was elected to lead Palestine in 2006, the Western world was shocked. How had the majority of Palestinians come to support an extremist organization and how would the group’s new political power affect the larger Israel/Palestine conflict?

Italian journalist and historian Paola Caridi offers a... Read more >

Hamas
From Resistance to Government
Written by Paola Caridi
Translated by Andrea Teti

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $24.95

When the radical Islamist group Hamas was elected to lead Palestine in 2006, the Western world was shocked. How had the majority of Palestinians come to support an extremist organization and how would the group’s new political power affect the larger Israel/Palestine conflict?

Italian journalist and historian Paola Caridi offers a clear-eyed... Read more >

Israel's Lightning Strike - The raid on Entebbe 1976

Written by Simon Dunstan
Illustrated by Peter Dennis

Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $9.95

The Israeli Special Forces’ operation at Entebbe goes down in history as one of the most audacious counter-terrorist assaults ever conducted. On 27 June 1976, four terrorists – two of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and two of the German Baader-Meinhof terrorist group – highjacked a passenger jet... Read more >

A Death in Jerusalem
The Assassination by Jewish Extremists of the First Arab/Israeli
Written by Kati Marton

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 23, 2011
Price: $15.99

On the evening of September 17, 1948, a car carrying Count Folke Bernadotte, the first United Nations–appointed mediator in the Middle East, traveled up a narrow Jerusalem street. As the car shifted gears for the climb toward the New City, an Israeli Army jeep nosed into the road, forcing Bernadotte’s car... Read more >

Embracing Israel/Palestine
A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East
Written by Michael Lerner

Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $16.99

A major modern conundrum is how the Arab/Israel conflict remains unresolved and, seemingly, unresolvable. In this inspirational book, Rabbi Michael Lerner suggests that a change in consciousness is crucial. With clarity and honesty, he examines how the mutual demonization and discounting of each sides’ legitimate needs drive the debate, and he points... Read more >

Embracing Israel/Palestine
A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East
Written by Michael Lerner

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $17.95

A major modern conundrum is how the Arab/Israel conflict remains unresolved and, seemingly, unresolvable. In this inspirational book, Rabbi Michael Lerner suggests that a change in consciousness is crucial. With clarity and honesty, he examines how the mutual demonization and discounting of each sides’ legitimate needs drive the debate, and he points... Read more >

Ben-Gurion
A Political Life
Written by Shimon Peres and David Landau

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $25.95

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

Israel’s current president gives us a dramatic and revelatory biography of Israel’s founding father and first prime minister.
 
Shimon Peres was in his early twenties when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that Ben-Gurion would lead through war and peace had not yet declared its...

Read more >

Ben-Gurion
A Political Life
Written by Shimon Peres and David Landau

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $15.99

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

Israel’s current president gives us a dramatic and revelatory biography of Israel’s founding father and first prime minister.
 
Shimon Peres was in his early twenties when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that Ben-Gurion would lead through war and peace had not yet declared its...

Read more >

My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner
A Family Memoir
Written by Meir Shalev
Translated by Evan Fallenberg

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $25.95

From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev’s birth. Here we meet Shalev’s amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923...

Read more >

Bible and Sword
England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman

Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2011
Price: $12.99

With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Barbara Tuchman, explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state--and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today.
"Barbara Tuchman is a wise and... Read more >

The Unspoken Alliance
Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa
Written by Sasha Polakow-Suransky

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $16.00

Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left, vocally opposed to apartheid and devoted to building alliances with black leaders in newly independent African nations. South Africa, for its part, was controlled by a regime of Afrikaner nationalists who had enthusiastically supported Hitler during World War...

Read more >

Israel/Palestina
Como Acabar con la Guerra de 1948
Written by Tanya Reinhart
Translated by Catalina Martinez

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $11.95

En Israel/Palestina, Reinhart traza el desarollo del Muro de Seguridad y la doctrina israelí de "Retirada Unilateral," que se inició en respuesta a la ampliación de la población Palestina, la cual pronto será la mayoría. Examinando la diplomacia reciente, incluyendo aquellos acuerdos auspiciados por los EEUU (Camp David, Oslo, y Taba)... Read more >

Israel/Palestine
How to End the War of 1948
Written by Tanya Reinhart

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $15.95

In Israel/Palestine, Reinhart traces the development of the Security Barrier and Israel’s new doctrine of "disengagement," launched in response to a looming Palestinian-majority population. Examining the official record of recent diplomacy, including United States–brokered accords and talks at Camp David, Oslo, and Taba, Reinhart explores the fundamental power imbalances between the... Read more >

Right & Wrong & Palestine
and Palestine, 9-11, Iraq, 7-7. . .
Written by Ted Honderich

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95

Philosopher Ted Honderich insightfully relates four shattering current events in this articulate, well-reasoned moral and political analysis. Exploring the war in Iraq, the controversy in Palestine, and the tragic events of 9-11 and London’s 7-7, Honderich elucidates the great questions of right and wrong in a conflict-ridden era. Read more >

Talking to the Enemy
Stories
Written by Avner Mandelman

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has shaped the consciousness of a generation, but never before has it been brought to life in such vivid and telling prose. Part Tim O’Brien and part Bernard Malamud, Avner Mandelman’s Talking to the Enemy ranges from boisterously entertaining tales of domestic squabbles to dark narratives from disillusioned... Read more >

Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History

Written by David Biale

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 22, 2010
Price: $14.99

To shed light on the tensions he observed between Jewish perceptions of power versus political realitieswhich "are often the cause of misguided political decisions," like Israel's Lebanese WarBiale analyzes Jewish history from the point of view of politics and power.

The author of Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History here challenges the... Read more >

The Unspoken Alliance
Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa
Written by Sasha Polakow-Suransky

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Price: $11.99

A revealing account of how Israel’s booming arms industry and apartheid South Africa’s international isolation led to a secretive military partnership between two seemingly unlikely allies.
 
Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left: socialist idealists like David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir vocally opposed apartheid and built... Read more >

Israel and Europe
An Appraisal in History
Written by Howard M. Sachar

Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2010
Price: $11.99

"A remarkable feat--clear, compelling and accessible--. Critical background for any appreciation of the Jewish state."--The New York Times Book Review

With his characteristic grace and lucidity, Howard M. Sachar, renowned author of thirteen earlier books on Middle Eastern and Jewish history, brings to life the complex and dramatic story of the friendships... Read more >