BOOKS 2023 #כינרת

On the second day of the Yom Kippur War, Ami Livna's plane is shot down over the skies of the Golan Heights. Within a few hours he finds himself a prisoner of war inside the city of Damascus. Less than forty-eight hours later, his friend from the Bat Squadron, Eric Zahavi, is also captured by the Syrians. The lives of the two young pilots become a journey full of hardships in the face of the horrors of torture and cruel isolation conditions.

A beautiful Lithuanian town, between a forest and a river, in the midst of a golden and calm summer, in which the world is about to be destroyed. The book is a chronicle full of grace and heartbreaking beauty, ranging from life to destruction until its inevitable end. Yossi Avni-Levi spent three years in Lithuania, among its people, its landscape and its bright and dark history, which he sketches in his intense poetic style.

A contemporary Israeli novel about two wounded men and one woman who loves them. On the battlefield, loyalty to a friend trumps self-interest, but in real life, the line between them becomes blurred, hard to decipher. Under the black clouds of the past, an Israeli present full of struggles, and an unknown future, the three waver between despair and desire, until the inevitable explosion.

Ever since Tyler started working with Amy on a joint comic book project, his friends don't leave him alone. Especially those who are preparing for the championship. Amy is extremely excited. She finally has a chance to team up with her crush, Tyler. But what about the looks she gets from his friends? What about the giggles?

In this book, Briana Wiest offers essential insights so that we can climb to our highest self, which is also our true self. An effort to please the environment leads to the silencing of our inner voice, which can be heard again by listening to the body and thoughts.

Bats are probably the most intriguing mammals on our planet. Is it because they fly? Is it thanks to their ability to "see" through sounds even in complete darkness? And what do they arouse in us more - fear or admiration?

Two young people from two different worlds drift into a temporary love story, and they have no idea what fate has in store for them. Bioa Grimm survived a miserable and shameful childhood, but finally good things await her. Indeed...?

After many months elsewhere, Wilde returned to Mount Ramapo following an unsuccessful attempt to maintain a family life at home, which confirmed what he had known for a long time: his place was alone, free from the comforts and limitations of modern life.

Reacher never turned his back on trouble or trouble. Right now he is in the middle of an abandoned road in the heart of Arizona in front of one of these: a Jeep crashed into the only tree in a radius of miles around. A woman is leaning on the steering wheel. is she dead

One summer in the life of an almost seven-year-old girl, in a young kibbutz in the south of the country. A kibbutz without a tree and without shade...

Dr. Gideon Ben Ari thought that the thwarting of the assassination of the Pope was the final chord in the concert of his security career. Gideon hoped to enjoy the status of a consultant and not to continue the abrasive and daily fight against terrorism

In her worst nightmares, Shira Beaton, wife, mother of three, confectioner and completely ordinary woman from intelligence, did not dream that she would find herself in prison. But that's exactly where she got to,