What’s the big-bang moment of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? In her recent book, journalist Yardena Schwartz attempts to pinpoint the 1929 massacre of Jews in Hebron.

“No land on this planet is a shelter for Jews; that is what the Event of October 7 proclaims,” Bernard-Henri Lévy writes in his new book.

Four new books that mark Israel at 75 take readers away from the onslaught of news out of Israel to develop a clear picture of the country.