General history & politics
- A History Of Israel and The Holy Land by Shimon Peres and Michael Avi-Yonah
- The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land by Donna Rosenthal
- Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy by Shlomo Ben-Ami
- The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz
- His Brother's Keeper: Israel and Diaspora Jewry in the Twenty-first Century by Yossi Beilin (New York, 2000)
- Exodus by Leon Uris, (New York, 1983)
- One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom Segev
Economics
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“Amid Political Upheaval, Israeli Economy Stays Healthy”, New York Times, 12/31/2006
Literature
- The Blue Mountain by Meir Shalev and Hillel Halkin
- A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz and Nicholas de Lange
- Mafriah ha-yonim (Sifriyah la-am) by Eli Amir
- In the Land of Israel (Harvest in Translation) by Amos Oz
- Voices of Israel: Essays on and Interviews With Yehuda Amichai, A.B. Yehoshua, T. Carmi, Aharon Applefeld, and Amos Oz (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) by Joseph Cohen
Great movies to rent
- Walk on Water by Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters, and Gideon Shemer
- Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi by Oshri Cohen, Arieh Elias, Esti Zakheim, and Aya SteinovitzTurn Left at the End of the World
- Broken Wings by Orly Silbersatz Banai, Maya Maron, Daniel Magon, and Nitai
- Nina’s Tragedies by Ayelet Zurer, Yoram Hattab, Alon Abutbul, and Aviv Elkabeth
News
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