Parliamentary democracy established by declaration of independence in 1948 following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine.
Comprehensive narrative history from the rise of Zionism through the modern state.
Detailed narrative of the 1947-48 struggle that accompanied the founding of the State of Israel.
Amos Oz's canonical novel set in 1950s Jerusalem in the young state of Israel, one of the defining works of modern Hebrew fiction (his more famous 'A Tale of Love and Darkness' is a memoir and is excluded as nonfiction).