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Where the Wild Ministers Are: Ben-Gvir launches children’s book for students

Otzma Yehudit activists have been told to distribute the new book outside schools nationwide on September 1, with tens of thousands of shekels spent on a child-friendly account of the minister’s record and political battles

Liran Tamari | 08.27.26

Princess Diana’s brother to reveal new details about her in memoir: 'The aim is to ⁠tell the truth'

Charles Spencer’s new memoir is set to reveal fresh details about Princess Diana’s life and death: 'I want ⁠to speak on Diana’s behalf and do so in an openly positive way'

Inbal Hananel | 08.19.26

הספר Antiquities of Athens שהוחזר לספריית קיאמה באוסטרליה

Australian man returns library book 150 years overdue — here’s the fine

Ross Simmons found 'Antiquities of Athens' in a tea chest built into a sealed fireplace during renovations at his home in Kiama, Australia; he believes his great-great-grandfather John borrowed it

AP | 07.31.26

Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ sends Homer’s epic soaring in bookstores

Hebrew sales rose fivefold in July as Nolan’s blockbuster renewed global interest in Homer’s epic, boosting bookstore demand, audiobook listening and searches for Greek lessons, even as one leading classics scholar dismissed the adaptation as shallow

Aya Chajut | 07.29.26

ג'ק ניקולסון בעיבוד הקולנועי של 'הניצוץ'

'The Shining' is a masterpiece, but have we been reading it wrong?

Stephen King’s bestseller became a Stanley Kubrick classic and cemented his status as the king of horror, but its most disturbing question remains: Does the writer create the work, or does the work create the writer?

Oded Wolkstein | 07.25.26

US planes cleared Iraq’s skies and nearly exposed Israel’s opening strike on Iran, IDF general says

A retired IAF brigadier general recounts the opening moves of Operation Rising Lion in ‘12 Days in June,’ a new book based on 52 interviews with senior defense figures

Ron Crissy | 07.13.26

Oct. 7 war leaves mark on Israel’s bookshelves: National Library releases annual books report

More than 7,000 new books were published in 2025, with decrease in fiction books; 90% of all titles were in Hebrew, and English fell to 3%, as Arabic doubled to 4%; 40 wartime memorial, remembrance and personal testimony books see light

Aya Chajut | 06.08.26

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Rory Gilmore, but make it runway: how books became fashion’s ultimate accessory

Vogue has already named literary chic one of 2026’s biggest fashion trends, but does dressing like someone who reads actually mean people are reading more, or is the right cardigan enough?

Liora Shuster | 05.13.26

'At 57, I learned I am autistic'

At 57, Michal Halali-Edelsburg discovered she is autistic after years of masking and feeling out of place; in her book 'Octopus Mimicus,' she describes an inner world of constant adaptation, now reframed by diagnosis as understanding rather than 'normality'

Limor Gal | 05.09.26

Review: Ryan Gosling’s ‘Project Hail Mary’ revives theaters with ambitious sci-fi

After weeks of closures, ‘Project Hail Mary’ — the Andy Weir adaptation starring Ryan Gosling — delivers spectacle and humor, though it struggles to balance light family fare with ambitious sci-fi

Erez Dvora | 04.07.26

Air raid sirens and women’s voices: why Virginia Woolf’s essay still resonates in wartime Israel

Virginia Woolf wrote ‘Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid’ during the London Blitz less than a year before her death — an essay centering women excluded from war decisions, strikingly relevant today, yet far from pacifist

Bacol Serlui | 03.12.26

Turning discarded books into memory

Israeli artist Lahav Barak crafts forgotten books into living art

ynet Global | 02.25.26

Why are extremists unhappy? These are Maimonides' secrets to a good life

Author Jeffrey Katz was a classic New York lawyer, but a chance encounter with a book by Maimonides changed his life, and now he wants you to change too: 'Any person can mold themselves into any kind of person they want to be'

Yaniv Pohoryles | 02.13.26

'There are times it’s unhealthy to remember': novelist Kazuo Ishiguro on war, trauma and recovery

Childhood in the shadow of the atomic bomb, life between cultures and a career shaped by memory and forgetting: Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro reflects on postwar Japan, Israel after Oct. 7 and why 'living too much in the past can destroy a nation’s future'

Amir Kaminer, Cannes | 02.06.26

Salman Rushdie returns to public life as ‘Knife’ premieres at Sundance

The author joins Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney at Sundance to discuss the 2022 knife attack, the legacy of the 1989 fatwa and how culture, journalism and art remain targets of authoritarian and religious extremism

Amir Bogen | 01.31.26