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Reading about Israel is an important step in understanding her complexity and learning to be a better advocate for her future. Pick up a few of these recommended titles at the bookstore to get started.

Israeli History

• Collins, Larry and Dominique Lapierre. O Jerusalem! New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972.
• Elon, Amos. The Israelis: Founders and Sons. New York: Penguin, 1983.
• Fromkin, David. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. New York: Henry Holt, 1989.
• Gilbert, Martin. Israel: A History. Transworld, 1999.
• Gilbert, Martin. Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
• Herzog, Chaim. The Arab-Israeli Wars : War and Peace in the Middle East. New York: Vintage, 2005.
• Lewis, Bernard. What Went Wrong: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East. New York: Oxford University, 2002.
• Oren, Michael. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. New York: Oxford University, 2002.
• Sachar, Howard. A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to our Time. New York: Knopf, 1996.

Israeli Society

• Melman, Yossi. The New Israelis. Carol, 1992.

• Oz, Amos. In the Land of Israel. Am Oved, 1983.
• Rosenthal, Donna. The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land. New York: Free Press, 2003.

Zionism

• Avineri, Shlomo. The Making of Modern Zionism. New York: Basic Books, 1984.

• Hertzberg, Arthur, ed. The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader. Jewish Publication Society, 1997.
• O'Brien, Connor Cruise. The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism. New York: HarperCollins, 1988.

Arab-Israeli Conflict

• Dershowitz, Alan. The Case for Israel. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2004.

• Friedman, Thomas. From Beirut to Jerusalem. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.

• Laqueur, Walter and Barry Rubin, eds. The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict. New York: Penguin, 2001.
• Shipler, David W. Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. New York: Penguin, 2002.

Israeli Fiction

• Hareven, Shulamith. City of Many Days. Mercury House, 1993.

• Horn, Shifra. Four Mothers. New York: Picador, 1996.

• Michener, James A. The Source. New York: Random House, 2002.
• Uris, Leon. Exodus. New York: Gramercy Books, 2000.

Perspectives

• Dershowitz, Alan, ed. What Israel Means to Me. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2006.

• Melman, Yossi and Dan Raviv. Friends in Deed: Inside the U.S.-Israel Alliance. Hyperion Books, 1995.

• Simon, Reeva, Laskier, Michael, and Sara Reguer, eds. The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times. New York: Columbia University, 2003.

• Stillman, Norman. The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times. Jewish Publication Society, 2003.

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