BOOKS 2024

Mishka Ben-David is known as a writer and a Mossad man, who published over twenty books of prose, espionage and collections of short stories. However, during all his years of work at the institution and in other places and while writing his various books, he also secretly dabbled in writing poetry.

In this book, the Jewish-American artist Shmuel (Samuel) Beck puts the canvases and brushes aside, to tell the stories of his life - as a child in Vilnius under Nazi rule, as a youth in the refugee camps in Europe, and as a teenage artist whose path leads him between Israel, France, Italy, Switzerland and the United States .

The book 'Wealth that cannot be bought with money' presents a revolutionary worldview and offers tools that will allow you to enjoy personal power, satisfying work and spiritual wealth. All these together will make you live the life you really deserve, every day anew.

A woman and her husband - and their intelligent and chatty dog ​​- leave in their car from Tel Aviv to visit their daughter and her family in Denmark, the land of the swan. As they advance in space, the novel recedes in time to the moment of their falling in love, and passes through stations in their life together.

Three men - the one who longs for a son, the one who rediscovers his son and the one who mourns for him - stand before the fascinating nature in its aridity, in its raw and eternal power, and seek - and find - in it an answer to the riddles of their lives and a balm for their souls.

Shalom Auslander grew up like a calf in the Orthodox community of Monsey, New York: a son to an alcoholic father, a guilt-ridden mother, and a violent and domineering God. Now approaching middle age, Auslander begins to suspect that there is something else he cannot escape

Tami Shem-Tov tells the story of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the boy who wrote poems and became a journalist even before he finished high school; The young man who taught the Jewish people to defend themselves; The man for whom the whole world was his home, but more than anything he wanted to build a home for his people in Israel.

Laura and her family go on a journey to a distant land. They take nothing with them, only the clothes on them and a cart drawn by two mares. And of course Jack - their faithful dog - because the road to the new land is long and dangerous. So many adventures await them until they reach a land with almost nothing in it, only wild animals and endless spaces and mysterious people

The rain doesn't stop falling, the time is pre-epidemic time, and when Jonathan says he's not sure he loves her, maybe he's just used to it, the hurt Neely decides not to join him for a sabbatical in the US and stays alone at home in Haifa, awake at night and restless

The Anthropocene is the current geological period, in which humans have profoundly changed the Earth. In his extraordinary book, the successful author John Green talks about our world: from scented scratch pads and teddy bears to the "penguins of Madagascar", and rates them on a scale of five stars.

A family of women who do not want to be women in the man's world in which they live, and in the middle - a boy who knows that there is one thing he can never be: a man.

Noa was born in Savion to a couple of former kibbutzniks, salt of the land, mother a cardiologist and father senior in the security system and a hero of Israel. One day, when she was six years old, the door of the house opened. then again and again And so for years. Noa was silent until it was impossible and began to say. Since then she says and doesn't stop.