Israel

Books that are set in Israel.

Hostage
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience
A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict
War
On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization
Enter Ghost
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
The Collector (Gabriel Allon, #23)
The Order (Gabriel Allon, #20)
The Netanyahus
The Cellist (Gabriel Allon, #21)
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
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
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
Jerusalem: The Biography
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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
Judas
The Dovekeepers
Atomic Anna by Rachel BarenbaumA Visit to Moscow by Anna OlswangerPanic in a Suitcase by Yelena AkhtiorskayaThe Girl From Moscow by Julia LevitinaThe Dissident by Paul Goldberg
Novels About Soviet Jewry
18 books — 3 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
284 books — 141 voters

Winging It  by Lia RussSeven Years in Tibet by Heinrich HarrerReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtThe Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
Adventure Travel & Exploration In Asia
352 books — 184 voters
EL TERCER TESTIGO by Juan José Soriano LluchMountains on Fire by Aram YardumianThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Dovekeepers by Alice HoffmanThe Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
Historical Fiction - Middle East
127 books — 85 voters

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
431 books — 472 voters
Cinder by Marissa MeyerEmpress of All Seasons by Emiko JeanEon by Alison GoodmanThe Poppy War by R.F. KuangThe Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Asian Fantasy & Science Fiction
502 books — 306 voters


Ellen Brazer
Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world. — Winston S. Churchill
Ellen Brazer, Clouds Across the Sun

Christopher Hitchens
Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away the divine warrant for the Holy Land and where were you, and what were you? Just another land-thief like the Turks or the British, except that in this case you wanted the land without the people. And the original Zionist slogan—'a land without a people for a people without a land'—disclosed its own ne ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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