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Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows
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JK Rowling
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Harry Potter is here

In a top-secret mission, books were flown to Israel Sunday night. On July 21 they will be available in the stores

Tens of thousands copies of the seventh and last installment in the Harry Potter series were flown to Israel Sunday night, wrapped in black nylon. The English-language books are being stored under tight security at the Steimatzky book chain's storage depot and will be unwrapped an hour before their official international release on July 21.

  

Ahead of zero-hour, a mass event will be held in Tel Aviv Saturday evening including magic shows, fireworks and music. Author JK Rowling's speech to 1,700 avid fans at London's Natural History Museum will be broadcast on a huge screen. At 2:01 am Israel time, the book will be released and sales will begin.

 

The Israeli publishers, "Yedioth Books" and "Aliyat Gag," are getting ready to start translating the book, hoping to publish the Hebrew edition in December.

 

The Hebrew translator of the Harry Potter series, Gili Bar-Hillel, will fly to London ahead of the book's launch, purchase a copy and read it on the plane back to Israel. From that point on, Bar-Hillel, will be under a strict work schedule aimed at setting a record time of translating a book in less than a year.

 

So far, over 870,000 copies of Harry Potter have been sold in Israel and publishers expect "Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows" to sell over a million copies.

 


פרסום ראשון: 07.09.07, 14:22
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