Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided A Nation by Yossi Klein Halevi

Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided A Nation by Yossi Klein Halevi

Winner, Jewish Book Council's Everett FAmily foundation award, Jewish Book of the Year

Winner, American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal for Best Jewish Book of the Year

Editors' Choice, New York Times Book Review

In restoring Jewish sovereignty to the Holy City during 1967's Six-Day War, the paratroopers of Reserve Brigade 55 fulfilled a dream of two millennia, forever changing the history of Israel and of the Middle East. And, as veteran journalist Yossi Klein Halevi compellingly reveals in Like Dreamers, they served pivotal roles in shaping Israel's destiny long after their resounding military success. As he follows the lives of this Israeli band of brothers, and charts the ideological divides among them, he weaves an epic chronicle of modern Israel that humanizes the country's political and cultural dilemmas, and offers an unprecedented glimpse into its soul.

Yossi Klein Halevi is a Jerusalem-based writer who was born in the United States and has resided there since 1982. He is the author of At the Entry to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Quest for God alongside Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land and Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation, which won the Jewish Literature Council's Everett Family Book of the Year Award for Best Jewish Book in 2013. He co-directs the Hartman Institute's Muslim Leadership Initiative with Duke University's Imam Abdullah Antelpi. He has three children with his wife, Sarah.