How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since its founding and riven by ethnic, religious, and economic divides, proven resistant to so many of the societal ills plaguing other wealthy democracies?

Why do Israelis have among the world’s highest life expectancies and lowest rates of “deaths of despair” from suicide and substance abuse? Why is Israel’s population young and growing while all other wealthy democracies are aging and shrinking? How can it be that Israel, according to a United Nations ranking, is the fourth happiest nation in the world? Why do Israelis tend to look to the future with hope, optimism, and purpose while the rest of the West struggles with an epidemic of loneliness, teen depression, and social decline?

Dan Senor and Saul Singer, the writers behind the international bestseller Start-Up Nation, have long been students of the global innovation race. But as they spent time with Israel’s entrepreneurs and political leaders, soldiers and students, scientists and activists, ultra-Orthodox Jews, Tel Aviv techies, and Israeli Arabs, they realized that they had missed what really sets Israel apart.

Moving from military commanders integrating at-risk youth and people who are neurodiverse into national service, to high performing companies making space for working parents, from dreamers and innovators launching a duct-taped spacecraft to the moon, to bringing better health solutions to people around the world, The Genius of Israel tells the story of a diverse people and society built around the values of service, solidarity, and belonging.

Widely admired for having the world’s highest density of high-tech start-ups, Israel’s greatest innovation may not be a technology at all, but Israeli society itself. Understanding how a country facing so many challenges can be among the happiest provides surprising insights into how we can confront the crisis of community, human connectedness, and purpose in modern life.

Bold, timely, and insightful, Senor and Singer’s latest work shines an important light on the impressive innovative distinctions of Israeli society—and what other communities and countries can learn.

海伦·米伦饰演以色列历史上迄今为止唯一一位女总理果尔达·梅厄，故事围绕其在赎罪日战争期间面临的严峻而高风险的决定展开。

A rich, wide-ranging portrait of the divisions among Israelis today, at a critical juncture in their country’s history, by a veteran New York Times correspondent who has spent decades working in Israel

“A wondrous tale told through the agonizing and uplifting stories of Israel’s many tribes — Jewish and Arab, religious and secular, new immigrants and veterans, soldiers and settlers.”—Martin Indyk, author of Master of the Game, and former U.S. ambassador to Israel

Despite Israel's determined staying power in a hostile environment, its military might, and the innovation it fosters in businesses globally, the country is more divided than ever. The old guard—socialist secular elites and idealists—are a dying breed, and the state’s democratic foundations are being challenged. A dynamic and exuberant country of nine million, Israel is now largely comprised of native-born Hebrew speakers, and yet any permanent sense of security and normalcy is elusive.

In The Land of Hope and Fear, we meet Israelis: Jews and Arabs, religious and secular, Eastern and Western, liberals and zealots—plagued by perennial conflict and existential threats, citizens who remain deeply polarized politically, socially, and ideologically, even as they undergo generational change and redefine what it is to be an Israeli. Who are these people and to what do they aspire?

In moving narratives and with on-the-ground reporting, Isabel Kershner reveals the core of what holds Israel together and the forces that threaten its future through the lens of real people: a son of Zionist pioneers, cynical about what is to come and his people’s status in it; a woman in her nineties whose life in a kibbutz has disintegrated; a brilliant poet caught up in the political maelstrom; an Arab gallery owner archiving a lost Palestinian landscape; and a descendant of the Russian aliyah; representing millions of culturally and religiously different Jews, laying bare the question Who is an Israeli? The Land of Hope and Fear decodes Israel today at its seventy-fifth anniversary, examining the ways in which the country has both exceeded and failed the ideals and expectations of its founders.

故事发生在一个小镇高中，在某个普通的早晨，戴面具的不明人士冲进学校展开屠杀，造成四名学生死亡。警察赶来调查此事后，得出的结论是凶手并不是外来人员，421名学生和老师里隐藏着真正的凶手。

Making a war is a storyteller's job. A good story is crucial to legitimize the use of military force. That's why militaries need strong promotion and Israel is a model country in promoting its military ventures. We've successfully colonized, occupied and overgrown, and only got stronger and more accepted amongst the nations. Our history as persecuted Jews, our enlightened democracy are both in use in our solid PR kit. But before pitching our story to the world, we need to pitch it to our children. As moral corruption linked with apartheid thrives, avoiding service becomes a threat. For some children we'll offer benefits, for most we'll sell fictitious promises. Every child is screened to serve with bearable pressure and an adjusted amount of exposure to violence. 'Innocence' tells the story of children who resisted to be enlisted but capitulated. Their stories were never told as they died during their service. Through a narration based on their haunting diaries, the film depicts their inner turmoil. It interweaves first-hand military images, key moments from childhood until enlistment and home videos of the deceased soldiers whose stories are silenced and seen as a national threat.

What is it about our Israeli-Palestinian Conflict that won't allow it to end? Is what happened between us really so unforgiveable and unsolvable? Anat Zeltzer and Modi Bar-On return to this story once again, but this time they try to tell it, not as a quarrel is recounted but as a lesson is taught. Let's call it a refresher lesson. Let's call it a Homeland Lesson.

This Book Highlights Israel’s Northern Borders—Crucial to the Nation’s Survival—Where Israel’s Soul Thrives Amid Persistent Danger, Isolation, and Economic Tribulation.
By combining intimate profiles of residents in multiple border communities with thorough research, you will meet daring people who settled the region, overcame its hardships, and remain determined to live normal lives in a challenging land.
Written by a member of the International Advisory Board for Alma, a Northern Israel Research and Education Center, this fascinating narrative reveals the century-plus story of the return of a Jewish presence to Israel’s northern borders where a Jewish nation once flourished.
“Living in Heaven, Coping with Hell is a meticulously researched, deeply reported and compellingly written account of the unique challenges and remarkable resilience of the Jewish communities along Israel’s often precarious northern borders.” -David Leach, author of Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel.
Those intrepid souls that settled the land and hold it today will stir you, and humor you, as you encounter ordinary men and women that accomplished extraordinary things. You will learn of:
Idealistic and courageous Jews fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe and Russia.
Zionists building a nation.
The Kibbutz–its rise, fall, and struggle to rise again.
Hezbollah, terrorism, and Katyushas.
Why Israelis remain determined to live along Israel’s northern borders.
Inspiring stories of people who now populate the region.
Communities along the border you will want to explore when you visit Israel.

置于历史与战争的背景下，录音带里的“抹除”一词被赋予了新的意义。1948年以色列建国时，战争爆发，数百个巴勒斯坦村庄在战后人口锐减。这被以色列人称为独立战争，而对巴勒斯坦人而言则是“Nakba”（灾难）。上世纪九十年代末，研究生泰迪·卡兹对一场大屠杀展开研究，据说其发生于1948年的坦图拉村。后来这项工作遭受到抨击，并使他声誉俱毁，但长达140小时的音频证词幸免于难。

灵感来自1948年的真实事件。Hassanin是一名埃及电影制作人，负责记录对隔离的尼扎尼姆基布兹的突袭。当基布兹人得知即将到来的军队突袭时，年轻但勇敢的母亲米拉被迫考虑战争的真实代价，做出了不可能的选择。