{"id":24376,"count":17,"description":"Unsurprisingly, many of our interviews on Israel are also in our Palestine<\/a> category.\u00a0 Gabriel Piterberg chooses his best books on Zionism and anti-Zionism<\/a> and Robin Yassin-Kassab looks at the best books on the Israel-Palestine conflict<\/a>. The Israeli novelist and playwright, Alon Hilu, looks at the best books on Palestine and Israel in Art<\/a> and reflects on his own experience of the Israel-Palestine conflict at a personal level. The British journalist and author, Jonathan Cook, chooses his best books on the experience of Palestinians living in Israel<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThe Israeli politician and lawyer, Amnon Rubinstein, talks about the economic strength of the country its liberal political culture<\/a> and the threats he sees to those. And the journalist, Michael Goldfarb also chooses his best books on the country<\/a> to help, in particular, to understand its hopeful foundation and why the country\u2019s conflict with the Palestinians is unsolvable. Steven Walt looks at US-Israel relations<\/a>.\r\n\r\nWe have two interviews on Jerusalem, by James Carroll<\/a>, who talks about its history, its conflicts and its message of peace. And by Simon Sebag Montefiore<\/a>, who touches on similar themes but also discusses the city\u2019s cultural (and culinary) vitality.\r\n\r\nBestselling Sapiens<\/em><\/a> by Israeli history professor Yuval Noah Harari,<\/a> has been recommended on Five Books.\r\n\r\nFocusing on fiction, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen recommends the best contemporary Israeli fiction<\/a>. One of Israel\u2019s most renowned authors, David Grossman<\/a>, has been recommended many times on Five Books and has spoken to us about books that shaped him<\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/asia\/middle-east\/israel\/","name":"Israel","slug":"israel","taxonomy":"category","parent":5648,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/24376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5648"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=24376"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=24376"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=24376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}