BOOKS 2023

On the second day of the Yom Kippur War, Ami Livna's plane is shot down over the skies of the Golan Heights. Within a few hours he finds himself a prisoner of war inside the city of Damascus. Less than forty-eight hours later, his friend from the Bat Squadron, Eric Zahavi, is also captured by the Syrians. The lives of the two young pilots become a journey full of hardships in the face of the horrors of torture and cruel isolation conditions.

A beautiful Lithuanian town, between a forest and a river, in the midst of a golden and calm summer, in which the world is about to be destroyed. The book is a chronicle full of grace and heartbreaking beauty, ranging from life to destruction until its inevitable end. Yossi Avni-Levi spent three years in Lithuania, among its people, its landscape and its bright and dark history, which he sketches in his intense poetic style.

A contemporary Israeli novel about two wounded men and one woman who loves them. On the battlefield, loyalty to a friend trumps self-interest, but in real life, the line between them becomes blurred, hard to decipher. Under the black clouds of the past, an Israeli present full of struggles, and an unknown future, the three waver between despair and desire, until the inevitable explosion.

The first moment that the author, Netzer Shochat, realized that the Internet opened a door through which anyone in the world could enter the lives of his children - he was frightened. This door is right inside the house. While we are sure that our children are sitting safely in their room, they are actually wandering around the world and meeting familiar people but also strangers. Some of them will benefit them, but there may be some among them that may harm them.

Ever since Tyler started working with Amy on a joint comic book project, his friends don't leave him alone. Especially those who are preparing for the championship. Amy is extremely excited. She finally has a chance to team up with her crush, Tyler. But what about the looks she gets from his friends? What about the giggles?

Clover has an unusual occupation: Clover is a "doll of death". She sits in the company of the dying, accompanies them and listens to their confessions, advice and regrets. She makes a point of recording their last words in three notebooks that she guards carefully.

Nancy and her best friend Berry have everything needed to open a detective agency - from a pink raincoat to a top secret cipher. But where will they find a mystery? When a valuable item disappears from the display table in their classroom, the detectives immediately launch an investigation

The annual end-of-summer party of supermodel and surfer Nina Riva. Everyone wants to be invited to the magnificent mansion in Malibu and snuggle up in the photo of Nina and her famous siblings...

There is nothing boring about being a child! And this is exactly what one little girl will have to prove in the never-boring children's book by the comedian Michael Ian Black.

Salt and water are a pair of sisters, who also happen to be... bees in a hive. The two of them got used to living comfortably, working hard every day, skipping between flowers, drinking nectar and producing honey. Until Malch decides to break the routine and against all the rules of the beehive, on an early spring morning, she slips out of her bed and disappears.

The start-up in this week's cases. The first book, which opens the Torah, Genesis, is an ultimate entrepreneurial book, no less than a religious or historical book. It began with the greatest initiative: the creation, the creation of something from nothing, and it continues in the creation of faith and of a people. And between its pages, even thousands of years after it was written, are hidden countless issues concerning the economy and entrepreneurship, which are very relevant even today.

A treasure fell into Jacky Hogi's hands: a diary written by an Egyptian soldier and found on a Chinese farm during the Yom Kippur War. The diary is written with immense talent, and is an artistic masterpiece, as among the notes describing the wait for the war and the fear of the battles, as well as the soul of the soldier, are scattered beautiful illustrations of the young and talented Egyptian.