BOOKS 2024

The book "Registered in the Body: Mind, Soul and Body in Healing from Trauma" is the central and most important book today in understanding one of the most difficult and significant phenomena of our time: post-traumatic stress disorder. The author, psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, is one of the top researchers in the field in the world. As a pioneer in the field, he reviews the history of post-trauma research and treatment in the last 40 years, and offers a revolutionary and innovative approach to body-centered treatment.

It's been a year since Rainey, Kate, Sticky and Constance saved the world from Mr. Kartan and his evil keyboard. Now they meet to go on another exciting adventure. But oh! Instead of following the clues that Mr. Benedict left for them, they are forced to board a ship bound for the unknown, to rescue Mr. Benedict himself from the hands of his evil twin.

Have you ever asked yourself why in the world there are people who live in a palace and give orders, while others have to clean the palace and obey orders? Is it fair? And above all: Has it always been this way?

A queen is proud to study at the first Hebrew school. Every day she learns a new word, and she promised her teacher, the best friend of Eliezer ben Yehuda, to speak only Hebrew! But today the queen has a problem...

Once a decade, the six men and women endowed with the most promising supernatural abilities are invited to compete for a vacant place in the Alexandrian Society - the secret academic society in the world. Those who win the place will guarantee themselves a life of power and prestige that can only be imagined and dreamed of.

Franz, Emperor of Austria, is preparing for his 23rd birthday celebrations, and is looking forward to a perfect weekend in his country palace. The palace shines and glitters, and the distinguished guests from all over Europe have already arrived. They don't know it yet, but this weekend the emperor will meet his future wife for the first time and announce his engagement.

Didi Berman, whose real name is Daphne but she hates it, is a dog walker who lives in a remote kibbutz in the north and lives a simple and small life. Didi does everything, but everything, so that no one knows or remembers that she knows things about other people that she shouldn't know.

Vernon's record store in Paris, the hero of the trilogy we met in the first book, The Story of Vernon Subotex, has become a distant memory, as has the apartment and the people who surrounded him in his previous life. Now Vernon is a street doctor, by choice! But some friends from his previous life have not forgotten him, and there are still those who want to lay their hands on Alex Bleach's tapes. This is the second part of the trilogy.

In a desolate neighborhood in the sixties, in a demanding family where patterns are cast, a girl grows up, who finds space for her soul in books. One day a writer comes to her class to tell about the creative processes. The enchanted girl writes him a letter, and from then on a decades-long friendship is forged between them, which lasts until the writer's death. The connections between them go through processes of maturation, sobriety, understanding and a special love.

The roots, principles, crises of liberalism. A little more than thirty years after the collapse of the communist bloc, and after what seems like a global triumph of liberal democracy, liberalism is under attack all over the world.

The story of the combat helicopter pilot Brigadier General (Res.) Ilan Hershkowitz. Brigadier General (Res.) Ilan Hershkovitz devoted his best years to the service of his people and his country. In his book 'If I Ask Heaven' he tells in the first person about his service as an outstanding fighter helicopter pilot in the Israeli Air Force - a bit wild but dedicated and responsible.

Leah Shakdiel. Alice Miller. Vicky Sheeran. Rim Abu Hana. Tal and Avital Yeros-Hakkak. These are not just names of precedents, but names of real women, whose events in their lives gave rise to judgments of the Supreme Court. There are also many others, some that are not mentioned in the title of the ruling, and some that remain unknown. All of them contributed to shaping the course of Israeli law - and Israeli society.