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[Halevi] tracks the…lives of seven of the Brigade 55 members.… [He] succeeds in his broader goal of linking these men and their families to Israel’s history during the past five decades. This is a beautifully written and sometimes heartbreaking account of these men, their families, and their nation.
Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation
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- ISBN-13: 9780060545772
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date: 11/04/2014
- Edition description: Reprint
- Pages: 624
- Sales rank: 152,124
- Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)
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Winner, Jewish Book Council's Everett FAmily foundation award, Jewish Book of the Year
Winner, American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal for Best Jewish Book of the Year
Editors' Choice, New York Times Book Review
In restoring Jewish sovereignty to the Holy City during 1967's Six-Day War, the paratroopers of Reserve Brigade 55 fulfilled a dream of two millennia, forever changing the history of Israel and of the Middle East. And, as veteran journalist Yossi Klein Halevi compellingly reveals in Like Dreamers, they served pivotal roles in shaping Israel's destiny long after their resounding military success. As he follows the lives of this Israeli band of brothers, and charts the ideological divides among them, he weaves an epic chronicle of modern Israel that humanizes the country's political and cultural dilemmas, and offers an unprecedented glimpse into its soul.
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Powerful…. a textured, beautifully written narrative…. There is much to admire in this book, especially Mr. Halevi’s skill at getting inside the hearts and minds of these seven men.Elliott Abrams
Mr. Halevi’s masterly book brings us into [the]…debate and the lives of those who live it, not through fiction but through a factual account illuminated by his own intelligence and empathy.New York Post
A fascinating study of modern Israel.Times of Israel
Like Dreamers is an eye-opening, beautifully written account, told through the lives of seven iconic Israeli paratroopers, of the shaping of the state we live in.Don Futterman
Like Dreamers is a big book, perhaps the big book on Israel we have been waiting for…. [It] is a remarkable feat of reporting, thrilling, painful, and brilliantly recounted, and an unparalleled portrait of Israel’s last five decades.Jewish Week
Brilliant…. It would make a terrific movie, or even a new book in the Bible…video review NY1
With compassion and moral imagination, Mr. Halevi helps us see why each side came to the conclusions that it did. In the process, he gives us an unforgettable taste of what he calls ‘the agonizing complexity of Israel’s dilemmas’.Tower magazine
Like Dreamers is a sweeping work… a rich and complex narrative…. And it reads like a novel.New Jersey Jewish News
In his new, magisterial book about Israel, Like Dreamers…Yossi Klein Halevi has… captured the complexity of Israel in human terms.David Laskin
Brilliant.Jeffrey Goldberg
A magnificent book, one of the two or three finest books about Israel I have ever read…. Nothing explains more eloquently why Israel, more than most any other country, lives or dies based on the power and justice of its animating ideas.Jewish Voice
As a work of political, cultural, and religious history, Like Dreamers is a triumph.American Jewish World News
Yossi Klein Halevi’s brilliant account of Israel’s left-right divide is a spellbinding story of people’s evolving views and of conquest’s mixed blessings.Michael Oren
Yossi Klein Halevi has written the Israeli epic.Jonathan Rosen
Like Dreamers is quite simply the best book about modern Israel I have ever read.Samuel G. Freedman
Yossi Klein Halevi has long been the most incisive and eloquent journalist writing from Israel for an American audience. This is his masterpiece. Zev Chafets
Like Dreamers is at once magisterial and enthralling, observed with the sharp eye of a master journalist, the patience of a serious historian and the style of an exceptional storyteller.