Streets of Israel: Off The Beaten Path - Coffee Table Photo Collection Hardcover – May 18, 2025

A vivid coffee table photo book of the streets of Israel.This book sets out to reflect Israel photographically— the place and the people in an unfiltered form. Reflections from the streets are captured, fields, hills, and seas—beauty, blemishes and all.Israel. The center of the universe on many fronts. Archaic cartographers depict her at the navel of their maps, the remaining continents branching outward only ancillary to her. Although geographically disputed, it is true in another sense. Despite her meager landmass, a sliver of rock and sand carved out at the Southeastern corner of the Mediterranean Sea, the world looks toward her daily. Some three times a day in prayer, towards her capital, and others on the nightly news. Some look with hope and longing, others with worry or anguish. Regardless of which emotion she evokes, she never fails to captivate.Her name has not changed, but taken on several incarnations over the millennia. Contemporarily, she is know as, Medinat Yisrael, The State of Israel, a modern reincarnation of Mamlekat Yisrael, The Kingdom of Israel. Entangled in diplomacy, her modern State must not be mistaken for the her terrestrial form, Eretz Yisrael, The Land of Israel, with which she does share some jurisdiction, but forgets to characterize other attributes. There is also the Am Yisrael, The Nation of Israel, including many of, but not limited to her current inhabitants. The Nation descends from Shivtei Yisrael, the twelve Tribes of Israel who are the children and grandchildren of Israel— he who wrestled with God.A disambiguation of Israel can be described through history, parable, and text. Scrolls upon scrolls worth of prose have been and can be written to encapsulate her history. However, this is best saved for a later occasion. A notion and a feeling can only be conveyed through image, short of experientially. Read more