BOOKS 2024

Dan Perry was born and raised on Mount Carmel. His descriptions and memories of the days when he lived as a child in an estate neighborhood, which was then isolated and far from Haifa - inspire amazement. What in his album book he combines his life and family history with the love of nature and the love of the land, and stories from his work at the Tabi Nature Reserve and more.

In his book, Ariel Zinder invites us to learn about episodes in the history and poetics of forgiveness and supplication poetry in the Middle Ages. The perusal of the piyots reveals the thought embedded in them about divine forgiveness, the possibility or difficulty of obtaining it and the different paths in which the community and the individual can move towards it.

What makes reasonable people believe illogical things. They fiercely defend their opinions, and are ready to fight for them; They explain above every media platform that vaccines cause autism, that the corona is a corporate conspiracy and that the world is, in fact, flat.

Girls and young women live in a confusing time: they have never had so much freedom and choices; But they have never faced so many demands - from themselves and from others. Dr. Tara Porter offers them insights based on her rich experience. From tests to friendships, from families to love.

In the third decade of the 21st century, when Israeli society is divided and polarized, on the brink of fratricidal war, the book looks at the deep roots of the Israeli-Israeli conflict, and tells the story of female and male fighters of the Atzel and Lehi, who risked their lives for Jewish independence, But they were never recognized for the historical role they bought with their blood.

Before his death, Franz Kafka ordered Max Brod to burn all his remaining writings. Brod, not only did he not fulfill his friend's request, but in 1939 he took Kafka's manuscripts with him and brought them to Israel. Since then he devoted the rest of his life to editing the writings and distributing them. In fact, by betraying his friend's will, he saved Kafka's legacy from destruction.

At the age of 55, Michal Solimer-Bona decides to ask out loud the questions that have accompanied her for more than three decades, since the summer of 1981. Together with five women, Michal travels to Crete for a week. There in Crete, after years of silence they speak. There, in the circle of conversation, each woman shares her life story and tells about the rape she went through, about the life after it and the choice to remain silent.

A novel about a scandal-ridden summer in a luxury hotel in Nantucket. After a difficult breakup with a longtime partner, Nantucket Island darling Lizbeth Keaton is desperately looking for her second relationship. When she is appointed the new general manager of the Nantucket Hotel, she hopes that with the help of her charismatic staff she will be able to fulfill the dream of the new owner, the London billionaire Mr. Darling.

The book begins with a photograph of a woman's face, who has just entered the gruesome gates of the Auschwitz extermination camp. The year is 1942, and the camp photographer does not look at the prisoner for more than a few seconds, before moving on to the next in line. 50 years later, an Israeli photographer randomly encounters the photograph of the woman. He cannot take his eyes off her, and makes her the object of his creation and love.

After repeatedly failing in his life, Sol gets an opportunity for a mysterious job in Krakow. There he meets a series of characters who will reveal to him valuable lessons for life, and above all - an enigmatic woman who will teach him, step by step, the secret of good luck, which may change our luck forever.

The book seeks to return the gaze and listening to the children who eat, those who sit in front of the plate. It offers a new eating language, which does not consist of calories, proteins, carbohydrates and strict rules of behavior at the table, but is built of closeness, intimacy, openness, inclusion, a sense of security and love

Gil Aloni's book starts from the end. Edmund, the hero of the book is dead. He passes through a white corridor without an honor guard, as they say it is customary to sleep, arrives at a white waiting room with a kind but sharp-tongued receptionist. As he waits in the waiting room for his case to be completed by the clerk, his intimate thoughts about who and what he left behind are revealed to the readers