{"product_id":"9780062688873","title":"Twelve Tribes","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Ethan Michaeli has a gimlet eye for the people, texture, and contradictions of modern Israel. I’m in awe of his powers of observation and his ability as a modern-day Tocqueville to take us inside one of the most complex and confounding countries in the world.\" — Jonathan Alter, bestselling author of His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn \"illuminating\" and \"richly descriptive\" (New York Times Book Review) portrait of contemporary Israel, revealing the diversity of this extraordinary yet volatile nation by weaving together personal histories of ordinary citizens from all walks of life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2015, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin warned that the country’s citizens were dividing into tribes: by class and ethnicity, by geography, and along lines of faith. In Twelve Tribes, award-winning author Ethan Michaeli portrays this increasingly fractured nation by intertwining interviews with Israelis of all tribes into a narrative of social and political change. Framed by Michaeli’s travels across the country over four years and his conversations with Israeli family, friends, and everyday citizens, Twelve Tribes illuminates the complex dynamics within the country, a collective drama with global consequences far beyond the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders will meet the aging revolutionaries who founded Israel’s kibbutz movement and the brilliant young people working for the country’s booming Big Tech companies. They will join thousands of ultra-Orthodox Haredim at a joyous memorial for a long-dead Romanian Rebbe in a suburb of Tel Aviv, and hear the life stories of Ethiopian Jews who were incarcerated and tortured in their homeland as “Prisoners of Zion” before they were able to escape to Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd they will be challenged, in turn, by portraits of Israeli Arabs navigating between the opportunities in a prosperous, democratic state and the discrimination they suffer as a vilified minority, as by interviews with both the Palestinians striving to build the institutions of a nascent state and the Israeli settlers seeking to establish a Jewish presence on the same land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImmersive and enlightening, Twelve Tribes is a vivid depiction of a modern state contending with ancient tensions and dangerous global forces at this crucial historic moment. Through extensive research and access to all sectors of Israeli society, Michaeli reveals Israel to be a land of paradoxical intersections and unlikely cohabitation—a place where all of the world’s struggles meet, and a microcosm for the challenges faced by all nations today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough candid interviews and personal history, Michaeli paints a portrait of a nation at a crossroads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Nation of Tribes:\u003c\/b\u003e Go beyond the headlines to meet the people who make up modern Israel—from secular tech entrepreneurs in Tel Aviv to ultra-Orthodox Haredim and the aging founders of the kibbutz movement.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePersonal and Political:\u003c\/b\u003e Follow the author's journey as he reconnects with his Israeli family, weaving his personal history into a larger exploration of Jewish identity, the diaspora, and the country's future.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eUnheard Voices:\u003c\/b\u003e Listen to the powerful life stories of Ethiopian Jews once held as “Prisoners of Zion,” Palestinian citizens of Israel navigating a dual identity, and religious settlers on the West Bank.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Land of Contradictions:\u003c\/b\u003e Explore the paradoxes of a nation where ancient traditions meet a booming high-tech economy, and where the struggles for coexistence play out in daily life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Ethan Michaeli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922139369621,"sku":"9780062688873","price":11.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780062688873_a25a1cfc-bed0-4208-a281-1000ec89ea5f.jpg?v=1776889932","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780062688873","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}