BOOKS 2023

Writer Susie Becker invites young readers to dive into another charming comic book in the series. A funny and exciting book, written as a personal diary and accompanied by illustrations.

Elliot Isner is not exactly happy about his first day at school. His class goes on a trip to a scary forest called the pine prairie. The journey is guided by Professor Fauna, the strangest teacher Eliot has ever met in his life.

Ecopoetics is a thought movement that seeks to examine how culture, through the developed consciousness and imagination, and especially the poetic imagination, can serve as a tool to heal our alienation from the environment. What mutual fertilization is possible between the humanities and literature and between the environmental discourse?

A selection that brings together the best of Uzi Weil's lists, some of the funniest, the sharpest, and the most sensitive of the Israeli writers of the last 30 years.

Alma is a curious girl who likes to dream dreams, tell stories and explore the world. She sets out with her parents on a journey to fulfill their dream - a trip around the world - and along the way goes through a fascinating and colorful journey of her own during which she discovers what her dreams, choices and desires are.

A mother and her two daughters write to the deceased father of the family. Each of the characters presents their story, and little by little we get a complete, complex and moving picture of a family that faces loss and at the same time chooses to continue living.

In 1967, Noam Samel - currently one of Israel's top cultural figures and the one who ran the Haifa Theater, the Chamber and the Stage - was infected with a special type of stage bacteria; He did not want to stand in the spotlight, and found his natural place on the side of the stage and behind the scenes. Since then, he has participated in key moments in Israeli culture.

In June 1940, Marion, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, is forced to flee from the terror of the approaching German army to Paris, the city where she found refuge. She escapes to Marseilles hoping to find a ship that will take her out of Europe. On the way she meets Kurt, a Jewish refugee like her, but soon they part ways.

Clinical psychologist Dr. Shona Shapiro illustrates with evidence from neuroscience why we feel what we feel - in relation to ourselves, others and the world - and explains why we get stuck in ways of thinking that are not good for us. It turns out that we are wired for critical and negative thinking, which constantly undermines the existence of our lives.

In one neighborhood facing the sea and the bay, unfold the stories of a couple who immigrated to Haifa from the center and found themselves at the beginning of a global epidemic. Into the unstable boundaries of the existing frameworks - marital life, family and work - outside characters invade, evoking in the narrator an erotic urge, a desire for discovery and embarking on a sexual journey.

Efrat Mishori's new book is real candy. In a poem in four parts, she unfolds the story of her stormy love for a muscular surfer who is many years younger than her - a passionate relationship that sent her to the heights of sensuality and the abysses of pain.

A spectacular collection of trees from all over the world, starting with towering sequoia trees, through thick tropical forests and ending with ancient trees, shrouded in legends. Find out how the trees have developed over the years, what is the relationship between us and them and how important they are to the existence of our world.