BOOKS 2024

Yael is the princess of the faculty, the surefire candidate for one of the handful of coveted degrees that all other doctoral students compete for in freestyle mud wrestling. She is an outstanding student, her supervisor is respected and appreciates her, and she is nominated for an important award. But when she returns from maternity leave, she discovers that she has returned to the bottom of the ladder. No one is waiting for her, no one considers her, and no one understands her.

How can one be optimistic in times of crisis? Yair Ben-David believes that a pessimistic worldview paralyzes us, prevents us from acting to improve the world, and may even be harmful to both the individual and society. His book is a personal and investigative journey into the depths of human psychology.

Vanessa Nakata, a groundbreaking climate activist from Uganda, brings a refreshingly direct perspective to the urgent global discourse on the climate crisis. Nakata chronicles her personal journey from a lone protester in Kampala to becoming a leading voice in the fight for climate justice on the world stage.

A biographical novel written in the first person, from the protagonist's perspective. It is based on obsessive research that has lasted 40 years, since the author - a writer and art therapist - discovered the drawings of children from the Theresienstadt ghetto and their amazing teacher.

A book that reveals for the first time the secrets of the art of storytellers and even strives to improve and perfect skills related to interpersonal communication. Yossi Alfi, Israel's national storyteller, who turned this art into a profession and the profession into an art in itself, leads readers into the rooms of the rooms at the heart of the story and the narrator.

A web of stories, linked together by delicate lines of drawings, functioning as literary images and reinterpreted in each plot line. The book won first prize in the Hari Harshon Literary Competition at the Hebrew University.

Materials from Handel's literary estate, which have not yet been the subject of scholarly research, are revealed here for the first time, leading to surprising discoveries and new insights into Handel and her work. The estate materials include, among other things, a hidden novella, which is widely studied in the book, and an autobiographical text on which Handel worked during the last decade of her life.

The sequel to 'The Hero', which captured the hearts of readers. After Therese discovers that her entire life has been a lie, she must learn the dangerous new world she was born to lead. But no matter how hard she tries to save the cubs and resist the rising evil, her enemies are always one step ahead of her.

This is the second volume in Serena's Portuguese trilogy, following 'A House in Portugal', the bestseller that described the process of building his own home in a small village in the northernmost province of Portugal. This book is a vertical journey, diving into the depths of Portuguese life, through the antiques and broken objects shop of Za Paulo. A character of Zorba the Portuguese.

A personal, sad and funny memoir by an ordinary Israeli, who, by necessity, plunged into one of the most fascinating chapters in modern history – the collapse of the Soviet Empire at the end of the last century and the beginning of the current one.

An honest and authentic document, describing the faltering fighting in the security zone in southern Lebanon in the 1990s, alongside the internal processes the author went through in the face of the piercing call from the women of the "Four Mothers" organization to leave Lebanon peacefully.

Doron Fischler, for most of the day, occupies himself with complicated questions about simple things (or vice versa). The rest of the time, he explains the answers beautifully to tens of thousands of listeners, children and adults, on his successful podcast, 'The Answer.'