12 must-read israel books like Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel by Francine Klagsbrun

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Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel

By: Francine Klagsbrun

4.42

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of Golda Meir: the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, …

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1. Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

By: Dan Senor , Saul Singer

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

What the world can learn from Israel's meteoric economic success. Start-Up Nation addresses … read more

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  • history
  • israel
  • jewish
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"A 2006 Harvard University study shows that entrepreneurs who have failed in their previous enterprise have an almost one-in-five chance of success in their next start-up"

-Dan Senor, Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

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2. Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

By: Daniel Gordis

4.31

Format: 560 pages, ebook

Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the … read more

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  • history
  • israel
  • jewish
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

By: Michael B. Oren

4.61

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Eve… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • israel
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4. Son of Hamas

By: Mosab Hassan Yousef , Ron Brackin , مصعب حسن يوسف

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • israel
  • politics
  • nonfiction

5. Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence

By: Jonathan Sacks

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

***2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner*** In this powerful and timely book, one of the most admi… read more

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6. Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service

By: Michael Bar-Zohar , Nissim Mishal

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Hardcover

The Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the… read more

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7. Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History

By: Joseph Telushkin

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

"One of the greatest religious biographies ever written." - Dennis Prager In this enlightening biog… read more

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8. Kissinger

By: Walter Isaacson

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Ga… read more

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9. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

By: Troy Senik

4.16

Format: 384 pages, ebook

“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

By: Dara Horn

4.36

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more

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  • history
  • jewish
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

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11. Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

By: Noa Tishby

4.34

Format: None pages, Audiobook

AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!A “fascinating and very m… read more

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  • history
  • israel
  • jewish
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The truth is, there is absolutely nothing that can be said of Israel, that cannot be said of Pakistan."

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Instead of helping people move forward UNRWA keeps the Palestinian people in an eternal loop of displacement. Instead of solving the problem in any meaningful way, they have overseen the problem's ex…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Here's the nugget: settling the refugee problem would mean ending the war against Israel. And as of now, the Palestinians and many of the Arab world have been refusing to do so. The best way to keep …"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"There is almost no difference between the establishment of Israel and Pakistan. They were both created as a safe haven for persecuted groups: Jews and Muslims. They are both engaged in land disputes.…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

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12. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

By: Ronen Bergman

4.40

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from… read more

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  • history
  • jewish
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The divide between the combat-sated generals, who once had "a knife between their teeth" but later grasped the limits of force, and the majority of the people of Israel, is the sad reality in which M…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

"Finally, a recruit would undergo one last test. The agency would send him home, to his own neighborhood and his own social circle, in disguise and with his alias. If he could circulate there, among t…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

"Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures.…"

-Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

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13. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By: Beverly Gage

4.37

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

By: Emmanuel Acho

4.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking in… read more

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  • history
  • israel
  • jewish
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War

By: Micah Goodman

4.27

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

A controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fr… read more

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  • history
  • israel
  • jewish
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

By: Yossi Klein Halevi

4.12

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentato… read more

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  • history
  • israel
  • jewish
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Sometimes, in political arguments with Palestinians, I would be told: Why are we arguing about who owns the land, when in the end the land will own us both?"

-Yossi Klein Halevi, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

"The notion of a people chosen by God wasn't intended to bestow privilege but responsibility. Jewish history attests that this role carries more burden than glory. The classical way Jews understood th…"

-Yossi Klein Halevi, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

"We are trapped, you and I, in a seemingly hopeless cycle. Not a "cycle of violence" -- a lazy formulation that tells us nothing about why our conflict exists, let alone how to end it. Instead, we're …"

-Yossi Klein Halevi, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

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17. The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

By: Dan Senor

4.38

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since it… read more

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  • history
  • israel
  • jewish
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace

By: Adi Schwartz

4.41

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to e… read more

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  • history
  • israel
  • jewish
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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19. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict

By: Oren Kessler

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Winner, 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books … read more

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  • history
  • israel
  • jewish
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel by Francine Klagsbrun

20. Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel

By: Francine Klagsbrun

4.42

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of Golda Meir: the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, … read more

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  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • israel
  • jewish
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda

By: Megan Basham

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

“This may just be the single most important book on modern Evangelicalism in recent years. It is bo… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

13 Best audiobook books like Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel by Francine Klagsbrun

Transform Your Habits

Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

Daniel Gordis

4.31

Transform Your Habits

A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

Troy Senik

4.16

Transform Your Habits

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Dara Horn

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

Noa Tishby

4.34

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12 Best audiobook books like Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman

Transform Your Habits

My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

Ari Shavit

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

Daniel Gordis

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016

Steve Coll

4.21

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