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In diesem Hörbuch geht es um einen Mann, der den Mut hatte, seine vertraute Welt zu verlassen und seine persönliche Sicherheit aufs Spiel zu setzen, weil er nicht damit leben konnte, dass sein Volk sich zum Götzendienst verführen ließ. Elia wagte sich in die Höhle des Löwen - den königlichen Hof im Nordreich Israel -, um seinem König zu sagen, dass Gottes Geduld zu Ende war und sein Urteil über Israel kommen würde. Elia war nicht der Mensch, der nach den Nachrichten am Fernsehen den Kopf über all das Schlechte in der Welt schüttelt, dann aber zur Tagesordnung übergeht.

Israel's Black Panthers tells the story of the young and impoverished Moroccan Israeli Jews who challenged their country's political status quo and rebelled against the ethnic hierarchy of Israeli life in the 1970s. Inspired by the American group of the same name, the Black Panthers mounted protests and a yearslong political campaign for the rights of Mizrahim, or Jews of Middle Eastern ancestry. They managed to rattle the country's establishment and change the course of Israel's history through the mass mobilization of a Jewish underclass.

In this enlightening book, those who have been influenced by angels tell their inspiring stories, including a workaholic saved from self-destruction by his guardian angel, a girl whose fear of death was dispelled by an angel's comforting words, and more uplifting accounts...

As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. When tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps in 1948, Elias began a long struggle with how to respond. In Blood Brothers, he blends his riveting life story with historical research to reveal a little-known side of the Arab-Israeli conflict, touching on questions such as: What behind-the-scenes politics touched off the turmoil in the Middle East?

Benno Neuburger, a modest land investor from Munich, and Anna Einstein, daughter of a cattle dealer from Laupheim, marry in 1907. They begin their lives together with great hope. It is a relatively prosperous time and a very optimistic one for German Jews who are enjoying a social renaissance in the industrializing, urbanizing rising star that is Germany. It’s not clear that this good fortune might begin to unravel.