Books
Authored by Uriel Zehavi · Published by Mitzpe Press
Israel Brief delivers the daily intelligence. The books are for the argument that has to outlast the news cycle — the case you hand to the person who still thinks October 7 was an anomaly, the board member asking harder questions, the reader who wants sources rather than slogans.
Holiday From History
The West’s Delusion of Peace and the Return of War
A forensic account of the post-Cold War delusion that disarmed free nations, hollowed out their alliances, and made October 7 possible. The book traces how the political class built the delusion, why it survived warning after warning, and what its collapse reveals about the institutions meant to defend the free world.
Best for readers who still believe the West is "post-conflict" — and want to understand why that belief came apart.
Rooted Truth
Israel’s Case Against the Deniers
A reference work and an argument. Dismantles the modern libels against Israel — apartheid, colonialism, genocide — and traces their lineage to the Soviet propaganda machinery that drafted the vocabulary now used at the UN, on campus, and through the NGOs that traffic in it. Restores the legal, archaeological, and historical record, and names the engine underneath: antizionism is antisemitism.
Best for anyone meeting those charges in real arguments and needing the record that answers them.
Rooted in Judea
Lives and Law in the Heart of Israel
Beyond the myths of Judea and Samaria.
A ground-level account of the region the world insists on calling something else. Reports the security geometry, the sovereignty law, and the daily life of the people who live there, from the ridge towns to the kitchen tables — Israeli lives the international press has spent a generation refusing to see.
Best for readers who want Judea and Samaria as geography, law, and lived reality rather than a cartoon.
Letters Across the Table
A Jew’s Letters to You, My Christian Zionist Friend
Thirty-one dated letters across one year, from a Jewish writer to the Christian friend who has loved Israel from a long way off. Written from Tel Aviv kitchens and a Negev moshav, a hospital ward in Petah Tikva and the ridge towns of Judea and Samaria, a coffee shop in Windsor and a Pesach table where a Holocaust survivor sat. It opens a door onto Jewish life from the inside — the calendar built around the land's harvests, the practice of forgiveness that runs in cycles of seven days and seven years, the peoplehood that holds a religion within it. An invitation across the table, with the chair already pulled out.
Best for the Christian friend who loves Israel from afar, and the reader who wants Jewish life shown from the inside.