Books like The Israel test by George F. Gilder

Israel’s startling start‑up boom, achieved by a nation with no natural resources and constant security challenges, reveals how adversity, flat hierarchies, informality, and government innovation policies fuel entrepreneurial success.

My Promised Land offers a detailed portrait of Israel’s political and social history, drawing on interviews, primary documents, and the author’s family story to trace key moments from Zionist beginnings to contemporary challenges.

Avi Shlaim, a leading historian of the Israeli–Arab conflict, evaluates Israel’s "iron wall" policy and its impact on Middle Eastern diplomacy and peace prospects.

Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Every crisis that has ripped through this region in the ensuing decades, from the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to the ongoing intifada, is a direct consequence of those six days of fighting. Michael B. Oren’s magnificent *Six Days of War*, an internationally acclaimed bestseller, is the first comprehensive account of this epoch-making event. Writing with a novelist’s command of narrative and a historian’s grasp of fact and motive, Oren reconstructs both the lightning-fast action on the battlefields and the political shocks that electrified the world. Extraordinary personalities—Moshe Dayan and Gamal Abdul Nasser, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin—rose and toppled from power as a result of this war; borders were redrawn; daring strategies brilliantly succeeded or disastrously failed in a matter of hours. And the balance of power changed—in the Middle East and in the world. A towering work of history and an enthralling human narrative, *Six Days of War* is the most important book on the Middle East conflict to appear in a generation.