BOOKS 2025

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.

A historical novel. Sophie and Jürgen, a couple in their prime, live with their three children in Berlin and enjoy all the luxuries afforded by Jürgen's senior position as a rocket scientist in Nazi Germany. Although they do not identify with the party's principles, they are afraid to voice their opposition.

A very personal story about one place and one girl, but miraculously takes us, its readers, back to what may have been our youth and perhaps is our dream of the blazing light and thick darkness of that time.

The book is the perfect match between a fascinating historical novel and an uplifting romantic novel. A story about a grandmother and her granddaughter - different but similar - who discover the gift hidden within them, but also the fate that lies within them.

Vernon is happy with his new routine. He lives with his gang in a camp far from the city, and once a month he conducts the "gatherings" - nights where he dances for people who come following a rumor passed by word of mouth. The third volume is a spectacular conclusion to Virginie Defant's punk-rock trilogy, accompanied by blood, fire, and smoke, as well as reconciliation, compassion, and atonement.