Animals, with the exception of some humans, do not listen to election promises. But the successful campaign of Benyamin Netanyahu for his fifth term as Prime Minister of Israel held… Read more »

Israeli publisher Resling Books has quickly, and without notice, removed a collection of stories by Arab women writers from its catalog after it was revealed they never asked any of… Read more »

An Israeli publisher is finding it increasingly difficult to acquire translation rights to some of the year’s most important novels, mostly due to the reinvigorated support many writers are feeling… Read more »

We’ve written before on the dangers of mistranslation, which can lead a nation to confuse its president with a giant chicken, to make the wrong cookie a metonym for its… Read more »

Ehud Olmert has seen better days. The George W. Bush-painted former Prime Minister of Israel (he served the office from 2006 to 2009) is currently serving out a prison sentence for… Read more »

Back in June, Liam O’Brien covered the strange legislative interlude in Israel after a law was passed setting strict controls on the discounting of new books, only to be repealed less… Read more »

On May 9th, the Kansas City Public Library hosted Dennis Ross, a former staffer in the G.W. Bush and Clinton administrations and author of Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship… Read more »

It wasn’t that I got pulled out of the El Al security line, escorted to the side to be more thoroughly searched and interrogated by a supervisor that bothered me.… Read more »

Well, that didn’t take long. Israel’s “Law for the Protection of Literature and Writers,” which set strict controls on discounts for new books, banned store-display deals between publishers and sellers, and established a floor… Read more »

Well, it was fun(?) while it lasted. Israel’s controversial “Law for the Protection of Literature and Authors in Israel” (aka “Book Law”) which barred booksellers from discounting frontlist titles for 18… Read more »