Avner, Yehuda. The Prime Ministers. Israel: The Toby Press, 2010
Bar Zohar, Michael. Ben Gurion. New York: Delcorte, 1978; Israel: Magal Books, updated 2003.
Bellow, Saul. To Jerusalem and Back. New York: Secker & Warburg, 1976.
Elon, Amos. The Israeli Founders and Sons. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971.
Herzog, Haim and Shlomo Gazit. The Arab–Israeli Wars: War and Peace in the Middle East. New York: Vintage (Random House), 2005.
Klein Halevi, Yossi. Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation. New York: Harper, 2013.
Koestler, Arthur. Thieves in the Night: Chronicle of an Experiment. London: Macmillan, 1946.
Ottolenghi, Yotam, and Sami Tamimi. Jerusalem. London: Ebury Press, 2012.
Rosenthal, Donna. The Israelis. Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land. New York: Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2005
Rothenberg, Naftali. Jewish Identity in Modern Israel. Jerusalem: Urim Publications, 2002
Rubinstein, Amnon. The Zionist Dream Revisited. New York: Schocken Books, 1984.
Shavit, Ari. My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel. New York: Spiegel & Grau (Random House), 2013; Scribe Publications: London, 2013.
Shimshoni, Daniel. Israel Democracy. New York: Free Press, 1982.
In-Flight Hebrew. NewYork: Living Language, 2001.
Other Israeli authors include Amos Oz (Harcourt), David Grossman (Farrar, Strauss & Giraux), and Meir Shalev (Harper Collins).
Useful Web Sites
www.eluna.com (Contains listings of kosher restaurants throughout Israel and discount coupons.)
www.zimmeril.com (Lists many kibbutz hotels and guest houses and other rural bed and breakfast accommodation.)
www.chamber.org.il/english (Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce)
www.industry.org.il/eng (Manufacturers’ Association of Israel)
www.export.gov.il/eng (The Israeli Export and International Cooperation Institute)