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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 in the Judean desert where, in 70 CE, nine hundred Jews withheld for months against armies of Romans.

The author, daughter of a Jewish Indian mother and a Jewish American father of Eastern European descent, describes what it was like to grow up in contrasting cultures--Midwestern America and an Israeli kibbutz--with a complex racial heritage.

Biography of Moshe Dayan, a man considered by some in Israel to be a cultural hero of the second half of the twentieth century, during many of Israel's wars; and by others as a controversial and hateful figure not worthy of praise.

Ari Folman's life becomes a nightmare when he sets out to reconstruct the events of one night twenty years earlier when, as an Israeli soldier in September 1982, he witnessed the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians by Christian militia members at the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut.

Mosab Hassan Yousef recounts the events and processes he witnessed while participating in the Intifada, offering insight into the top-secret dealings of Middle Eastern leaders and the deadly terrorist group Hamas.

Assaf, a socially awkward sixteen-year-old who is whiling away his summer vacation at a lowly job in Jerusalem's city hall, becomes involved in a much greater quest when he is assigned to find the owner of a lost dog and meets Tamar, a street performer who is trying to free her brother from the clutches of an evil crime boss.

In the aftermath of the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, a secret Israeli squad is sent to track down and assassinate the Palestinians believed to be responsible for the act of terrorism.