BOOKS 2025

Jason is the maintenance man for a building in Queens. He takes care of the building with devotion and love, as if it were his own child. But Jason also longs for a child of his own. He is determined to become a father at all costs, but his overprotective parents do not believe that he and his partner, Lizzie, are fit to raise a child and do everything they can to prevent him from fulfilling his wish. When a couple with a baby move into the building, Jason's desire becomes an obsession...

The book juggles a world where rich language, classical contexts, and psychological depth coexist alongside a wild rhythm. Together with Arthur, Omer Meir and Welber move between Russia and Israel, between dense silence and a crushing scream. Between a culture that has not learned to cry and one that does not know how to be silent. He observes Arthur donning characters and masks and looks deep into the depths of his soul and ours.

Who murdered Oriana? One man and three women tell their version of the story: Adrian, the victim's husband, a mysterious and captivating jazz pianist; the elusive Adele, his young lover; Justine, the local policewoman in charge of the investigation; and finally Oriana, through the harrowing story of the last weeks of her life.

A novel about the Israel that could be. At its core, it discusses the eternal and frustrating attempt of a contemporary person to find out what the true reality is and who is really pulling the strings. The story oscillates between the State of Judah and India; between the remnants of secular resistance in Israel and the messianic delusions that control it; between religious conspiracies and psychedelic visions.

He promised the book publisher that he would write his entire sexual history. He planned and wrote code words and names for himself that only he could decipher. He wrote about his wife's infidelities. And also about the affair from the past at the hotel, which she wouldn't let him have and which resurfaced in his life.

During the funeral for his father, Zohar, a divorced father of two grown children, collapses. His guests assume that he is overcome by grief, but deep down he knows that this is not the kind of grief he is talking about.

A mosaic of touching life stories, all of which come together on one rainy day. The main characters in this book are not heroes. They are women just like any other human being, they are each of us, vulnerable and strong, generous and ruthless. They love and hate with all their hearts. They fall and keep walking - like rosemary that defies the winter frost, and is reborn every spring, despite the scars.

Young Adult Literature. Bart Bloom hoped that moving to university would be a new beginning after difficult years in high school. But on September 21, the first day of school, everything goes wrong...

When Princess Shulamith is sent to the court of King Solomon, she is swept into a world of splendor and hidden desires. The story slips from the marble walls of Solomon's palace to the magical landscapes of the Land of Israel, revealing a royal world full of intrigue.

Fifteen-year-old Libby is a normal girl. She just wants to do well in school, listen to Taylor Swift, and go to high school with her two best friends. Until a car accident turns her whole world upside down. One day, Libby stops being "the top student" and becomes "the girl whose mom died."

Yuval Neria examines what happens when a therapist sits across from a patient and encounters his own pain, which he was unable to heal; what if this pain is the last thing he has left of a loved one; how the relationship between patient and therapist is intertwined; and how, if at all, the boundaries of the role are maintained throughout the therapeutic journey.

On June 8, 2024, forces from the Yam, Shin Bet, and elite army units operated in the Nusirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, with the aim of freeing the four Israeli citizens who had been kidnapped from the Nuwa party on the damned Sabbath of October 7. Yam fighter Superintendent Arnon Zmora was killed in the operation. After his death, the heroic rescue operation was named after him.