Often a lightning rod in the world’s most explosive region, Israel has been under attack by its enemies for decades but still survives. But as the battle lines are re-drawn and the rhetoric becomes harsher, it is author Daniel Gordis who poses the question, “is Israel worth saving, and if so, how can it be done?” 

In Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End (Wiley, March, 2009, $25.95 / Cloth, ISBN: 978-0-471-78962-8) author Gordis takes a look at The Jewish State through an ever evolving prism. To those who say it must be eliminated, from intellectuals like Tony Judt to hate-filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even through average Israelis who are wondering if they wouldn't be better off somewhere else. A country which once restored hope to Jews world-over now feels itself slipping. Increasingly, Israelis wonder how much has really been accomplished and whether they ought to persevere. 

Saving Israel addresses these penetrating questions - Can Israel win the next military war for survival, whomever the foe? Can Israel defuse the demographic time bomb of a growing Arab population? Can Israel, a country that's come so far and sacrificed so much, keep up the will to fight?   Author, Gordis is confident his fellow Jews can renew their faith in the cause, and in Saving Israel, he outlines how. Gordis has written many popular personal essays and memoirs in the past, but Saving Israel is a full-throated call to arms. Never has the case for defending -- no, celebrating -- the existence of Israel been so clear, so passionate, or so worthy of wholehearted support. 

Saving Israel combines the sweep of complex and extraordinary history with personal insight and passion. Saving Israel accomplishes this and more, it educates and inspires it readers while furnishing them with well-grounded hope for the future.