Israel

Books that are set in Israel.

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Our Cut of Salt
The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East
The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living
In the War Room: The Inside Story of Israel's Fight Against Hamas and the Iranian Axis
When We See You Again
Hostage
The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living
The Persian
The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East
The Netanyahus
A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict
The Cellist (Gabriel Allon, #21)
The Collector (Gabriel Allon, #23)
Queen Esther
Enter Ghost
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Israel: What Went Wrong?
War
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
A Tale of Love and Darkness
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
Exodus
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Jerusalem: The Biography
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
To the End of the Land
A Horse Walks into a Bar
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
The Case for Israel
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
Judas
ثلاثية غرناطة by Radwa AshourThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniAzazil by Youssef ZiedanThe Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
Best Middle East Fiction
444 books — 495 voters

The Frontlines of Peace by Severine AutesserreBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenMy War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony LoydA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtSketches from the Periphery by M.P. Summers
Conflict-Zone Journalism
287 books — 147 voters

Perfume by Patrick SüskindThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaThe Orphanage by Serhiy ZhadanThe Palace of Dreams by Ismail KadareThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Eurovision Book Contest
38 books — 9 voters
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos OzThe Blue Mountain by Meir ShalevPast Continuous by Yaakov ShabtaiSee Under by David GrossmanThe Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehoshua
Translations from Hebrew
64 books — 26 voters


“ Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to Israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of Israeli occupation. "Never let them know they hurt you" was their creed ...more ”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

Tony Horwitz
“ The first thing you notice, coming to Israel from the Arab world, is that you have left the most courteous region of the globe and entered the rudest. The difference is so profound that you're left wondering when the mutation in Semitic blood occurred, as though God parted the Red Sea and said: "Okay, you rude ones, keep wandering toward the Promised Land. The rest of you can stay here and rot in the desert, saying 'welcome, most welcome' and drowning each other in tea until the end of time. ...more ”
― Tony Horwitz, Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia

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