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As the UN votes to create a Jewish State, Aleppo explodes in a pogrom against its Jewish community. As the riot rages, young Ezra sets out to retrieve a midwife for his pregnant mother.
This is the first book that explores the Six Day War both as a military struggle and as a critical episode in the global Cold War. Michael B. Oren spotlights all the participants–Arab, Israeli, Soviet, and American–telling the story of how the war broke out and of the shocking ways it unfolded. Writing with a novelist’s command of narrative and a historian’s grasp of fact and motive, Michael B. Oren reconstructs both the lightning-fast action on the battlefields and the political shocks that electrified the world.
Yoni’s Last Battle is a gripping account of the famous operation in Entebbe, Uganda on July 4, 1976. It chronicles the detailed planning and implementation of one of the most incredibly successful airborne rescue missions in history. Author Iddo Netanyahu, youngest of three brothers, including the Israeli Prime Minister (Bibi), describes the famous mission carried out by Israel’s elite commando unit led by his oldest brother, Yoni, to rescue 105 hostages held by German and Arab terrorists.
Through the Flames of Aleppo dramatizes the harrowing events of the Aleppo pogrom through the eyes of a Jewish boy, Ezra. The book is written by A. Shalom, who consulted archives from the time and met with members of the community who lived through the riots in writing the novel.
See our filmed review of a dated documentary that is still being used as part of the curriculum in some American public middle schools. The film examines the Arab-Israeli conflict through the eyes of seven children living in the Jerusalem vicinity, from both sides of the conflict. While the protagonists are appealing, the take-away message of the film, based on misleading context and a lack of essential background information, is one-sided and politicized.
Do Palestinians who fled Israel in 1948, and their descendants, have a legal or moral right to return to their former homes in Israel? Is it true that most other refugees around the world have already exercised such rights of repatriation?
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