Customer Reviews

Welcome to Israel!

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This book is good for the 9-12 year olds in giving a brief overview of Israel. It is relatively up to date (just missing the latest outbreak of terrorism and fighting between the Israelis and Palestinians of the past year). I liked the stimulating and thought provoking questions asked which can lead into good class/family discussions. I also like the Hebrew words which are introduced in the various chapters and the mini biographies. The book is mostly filled with illustrations and a sprinkling of photos. I would have liked more photos. I feel this book would be an asset in home, school and synagogue libraries.

This is a colorful and sympathetic introduction to Jewish history and the state of Israel. It is very clearly and intelligently written. It includes interactive features which are intended to add to overall knowledge.
It is a guide book which takes the reader to meet children in various parts of Israel.

Chock full of information, but at the same time pictures, illustrations and activities on each page break up the text and draw kids in.

I may edit this review after we finish using this resource, but so far it's been really helpful to my kids' study of Israel. We're conservative Christian homeschoolers and I stumbled upon this book recently, when I was looking for information on contemporary Israel as well as ancient, or biblical, Israel. This book is a really interesting find.

First of all, it's more of a textbook. I thought it was going to be a nice 32-page picture book, but it's thick with many chapters. Each one goes into great detail about something in Israel's history, including contemporary history. IN fact, it is so detailed, I plan on skipping some of the chapters until my kids are a bit older and need to learn more modern history. For example, it covers all the modern conflicts with Egypt and the gains/losses from each war. It even has many photos.

But the surprising part is that it is for little kids. Maybe not very little, but we are using it with my third grader, and I plan on using it again in a couple years when they can handle more information. It comes across as sort of a political primer, but not "political" in the polemical sense of the word. Just keeping you up to date on a very complicated and lengthy subject! Israel since 1948 is barely known by adults, let alone children. So I'm really intrigued to have this on my shelf.