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Four women, Yael--whose father, an expert assassin, has never forgiven her for her mother's death during childbirth--Revka--a local baker's wife who witnessed the murder or her daughter by Roman soldiers--Aziza--a warrior's daughter who was raised like a son--and Shirah--a woman born with uncanny insight and knowledge of ancient magic--are drawn to Masada, a mountain the Judean desert where, in 70 CE, nine hundred Jews withheld for months against armies of Romans.

"An early reader's guide to Mossad spies, introducing Israeli espionage history, famous agents such as Cheryl Bentov, skills such as tailing, and the dangers all spies face"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses the holidays and festivals that people in Israel celebrate each year.

Israel Meir Lau was eight when he emerged as one of the youngest survivors from the Buchenwald concentration camp at the end of World War II. He could neither read nor write. Born in a small town in Poland in 1937, the son of the town's last chief rabbi, he is descended from an unbroken chain of rabbis spanning over 1,000 years. His entire family was murdered during the Holocaust with the exception of his brothers, Naphtali and Joshua, and an uncle who had already emigrated before the war. The miracle of his survival was made possible by the efforts of his brother Naphtali and a Russian prisoner. He is currently the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the state of Israel.

The untold story of the Ya'mas, Israel's special forces undercover team that infiltrated Palestinian terrorist strongholds during the al-Aqsa, the Second Intifada, which began in late 2000.

At the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished. Sixteen years later, an elite team of spies captured him at a bus stop in Argentina and smuggled him to Israel, resulting in one of the century's most important trials. Here is the story of what happened between these two events.

Uses Israel as an example to offer advice on how countries, cities, and businesses can be conscious of their water usage, and discusses efforts to innovate water usage in agriculture and improve water desalination and other water technologies.

Examines some of the reasons the land of Israel is considered the Holy Land not only in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, but also in less well-known faiths like that of the Samaritans, Druze, and Bah?'?.

A North American girl comes back to life as a cat, and finds herself in the middle of a Palestinian-Israeli conflict.