BOOKS 2025 #Pardes Publishing

ממואר אישי, מצער ומצחיק של ישראלי מן השורה, שצלל מכורח הנסיבות אל תוך אחד הפרקים המרתקים ביותר בהיסטוריה החדשה – התפרקות האימפריה הסובייטית בסוף המאה הקודמת ובתחילתה של המאה הנוכחית. המחבר, אריה בן־צל, היה שליחו של אחד האגפים של משרד ראש הממשלה אל המרחב הסובייטי והפוסט־סובייטי.

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.

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.

​The story of the young rebel who led a lone protest against the political and cultural reality in Israel. Dan Omer and his writings have been forgotten, and it is increasingly difficult to find in the public sphere the model of the rebel he represented, which includes a determined stand against political, social, and cultural establishments while taking risks to the point of self-loss.

In 1914, on the eve of World War I, Mehmet Cemal Azmi Bey, governor of the Vilayet of Beirut (the Ottoman province of Beirut), decided to send two young Arab scholars on a unique mission: a documentary journey through the provinces of the province. The authors describe in detail the life that took place in the country – of Muslims, Christians, Samaritans and Jews; of residents of villages, Bedouin tribes, towns and cities. Their report includes data and interviews, excerpts from official sources, memoirs and folk songs.

A multidisciplinary novel about researchers and scientific discoveries, which seeks to bring audiences together and arouse curiosity among readers by connecting literature and science, describing family ties, the importance of social involvement and caring, and representing Arab culture, as they are also integrated into the author's life.

The book focuses on communal and personal stressful situations in Israel and how people adapt to these situations. Among the areas the book deals with are terrorist events and war, the disengagement and immigration, which are defined as communal stressful events, similar to events that have occurred in Israel in recent years, including the coronavirus pandemic, the legal upheaval and the Iron Sword War.

This collection is filled with bottomless sorrow, and we are the witnesses. Facing the local landscape, the sights of the world and its diseases, facing the memory of the land that was once a homeland, a poet sits and warns life, which seems not to understand the extent of death.

We see sex everywhere. Sexuality shapes, in hidden and overt ways, many aspects of our perception of reality, and is embedded in many areas within us. This book offers an attempt to understand it. It presents options for solving problems related to sexuality, such as those that clinical psychologist Amos Prives encountered in his clinic.

A moving children's book about a girl who is exposed to adult conversations about children, parenting, and families of all kinds and tries to help them. This is a story about a girl who gets a glimpse into the adult world, and about adults who get a glimpse into the world of children.

The book is a living and unique testimony to the connections between parents, children, and family members and their influences. Throughout the book, the stories of the extended family, who immigrated to Israel from Tunisia and faced many difficulties, are woven together. These are conveyed in fluent language that takes us back in time.

A building slated for demolition in the Neve Sha'anan neighborhood of Tel Aviv, where an association operates for asylum seekers, is being drained by a host of figures from various corners of Israeli society: criminals, new immigrants, artists, women in prostitution, activists, real estate agents, and most of all - Eritrean asylum seekers.