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A first Hebrew vocabulary book for children, it includes 150 words used at home, in school, and on the playground in Hebrew, transliteration, and in English. With words arranged by category and only a few words on each page, this book is accessible even to pre-schoolers.
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Distributed by Sisu Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
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עברית
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Surreal Israeli drama tells the gripping story of a former military investigator asked to smoke out a rapist attacking female soldiers. He grows unexpectedly close to the young woman who volunteers to serve as bait by posing as his girlfriend, a relationship that complicates his search for the vicious predator
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From leading Old Testament scholar Douglas A. Knight comes the latest volume in the Library of Ancient Israel series. Using socio-anthropological theory and archaeological evidence, Knight argues that while the laws in the Hebrew Bible tend to reflect the interests of those in power, the majority of ancient Israelitesâ€"located in villagesâ€"developed their own unwritten customary laws to regulate behavior and resolve legal conflicts in their...
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Tel-Aviv, the First Century brings together a broad range of disciplinary approaches and cutting-edge research to trace the development and paradoxes of Tel-Aviv as an urban center and a national symbol. Through the lenses of history, literature, urban planning, gender studies, architecture, art, and other fields, these essays reveal the place of Tel-Aviv in the life and imagination of its diverse inhabitants. The careful and insightful tracing of...
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A spiritual journey-both deeply personal and strikingly universal.
One of Israel's leading cultural figures, Dov Elbaum grew up in an ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem family, and was a prodigy who seemed destined for greatness in the world of Talmud study. But in his late teens, he abruptly broke away and set off into secular Israeli society. In this fascinating, courageous and compelling autobiography, Elbaum seeks to understand his decision and its consequences....
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Passion River Films
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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How does the global media relate to Israel? Part III evaluates some of the biases the media perpetuates and analyzes the role media bias plays in the global front against Israel. Take a look at the modern relationship between the State of Israel and western nations in the last part of the mini-series.
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Publisher
Passion River Films
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Why haven't the Israelis and the Palestinians reached a peace agreement? Follow the history of the peace process from the Oslo Accords through the disengagement from Gaza. Part II highlights the major events affecting peace in the region. Now take an in-depth look at Israel's ongoing efforts to achieve lasting peace between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
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In 1996, on her 15th birthday, Bat-Chen Shahak was killed by a suicide bomber in Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Center. But the gifted teenager left behind a rich legacy of diaries, letters, poems and drawings. Following her death, her parents gathered her writings and created The Bat-Chen Diaries ; this is the first English translation of her work.
20) Stork's Landing
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When a migrating stork gets tangled in a net in the fish ponds on Maya's kibbutz, Maya wonders what to do. Can she and her father find a way to nurse it back to health and send it back into the wild? Set in Israel, one of the bird capitals of the world with the highest number of migrating birds anywhere, this story brings the beauty of nature in Israel to life and highlights an unusual part of Israeli life―the kibbutz.