Books to Read Before Your Trip

Here is some suggested reading before your trip to Israel

General history & politics
1001 Facts Everyone Should Know About Israel by Mitchell Bard
A History Of Israel and The Holy Land by Shimon Peres and Michael Avi-Yonah
The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land by Donna Rosenthal
Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy by Shlomo Ben-Ami
The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz
His Brother's Keeper: Israel and Diaspora Jewry in the Twenty-first Century by Yossi Beilin
What Israel Means to Me by Alan Dershowitz
O Jerusalem by Larry Collins
Still Life with Bombers by David Horovitz
Real Jews by Noah Efron
Gideon’s Spies by Gordon Thomas
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman
Israel: A Spiritual Travel Guide by Lawrence Hoffman

Literature
Exodus by Leon Uris
The Source by James Michener
The Blue Mountain by Meir Shalev and Hillel Halkin
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz and Nicholas de Lange
Mafriah ha-yonim (Sifriyah la-am) by Eli Amir
In the Land of Israel (Harvest in Translation) by Amos Oz
Voices of Israel: Essays on and Interviews With Yehuda Amichai, A.B. Yehoshua, T. Carmi, Aharon Applefeld, and Amos Oz (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) by Joseph Cohen
Open Closed Open Poems by Yehuda Amichai
Home to Stay by Danny Gordis

(See the list on Amazon here.)

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