BOOKS 2023 #Haifa

From the day Yona Yahav made up his mind, he had one answer to the question: What do you want to be when you grow up? Mayor of Haifa. In his journey to fulfill his childhood dream, Yahav passed through important intersections in the civil service. In 2003 he fulfilled his dream and was elected to serve as the tenth mayor of Haifa.

A biographical-historical novel that tells the story of the survival of two Jewish families in Italy. During the rise of fascism and World War II. Between the two families bonds of love are forged when Elio and Licha meet and decide to build their home in Israel. Hence the writing is personal and describes a street and neighborhood in Carmel in the sixties.

The book is written from the sensitive and authentic point of view of the ten-year-old Esther, a member of a family of immigrants from Morocco in the Wadi Salib of the 1950s, who faces family, social and mental situations that threaten to subdue her.