num_pages: 172
description: From well-known leaders making life-and-death decisions to ordinary people who have overcome incredible loss to do inspirational things, meet the Israelis who thrive against all odds and learn how you can too. ISResilience is a study of a nation that has had to collectively and individually hang tough like no other country on earth. Imbued in Israel's DNA is the understanding that survival isn't optional - it's a necessity. Any Israeli could have given testimony for this book. Israelis routinely carry on with their day-to-day lives not just when things are calm and peaceful but when rockets are launched at them, during official conflicts and wars and unofficial waves of gruesome terrorism. And they don't just survive - they thrive.Each chapter of this book profiles a diverse, compelling Israeli personality - some famous, some not, but all exceptional - and traces the characteristic that unites them all. The life lessons extrapolated from these interviewees can teach every one of us to be stronger people. Written by a communications expert and Israel analyst together with a pioneering psychologist in the field of resilience research and treatment, ISResilience brings today's most in-demand skill to life and shows how we all can benefit from the trait embodied by the nation once admired by Princess Diana as "a plucky little country."Part-history, part-biography, part-self-help manual, ISResilience is a study of a nation that has had to collectively and individually hang tough like no other country on earth. Each chapter comprises an interview with a compelling Israeli personality some famous, some not, but all exceptional profiles them, and traces the characteristic that unites them all resilience - extrapolating from them life lessons that can teach everyone of us to be stronger people.From well-known leaders making life-and-death decisions to ordinary people who have overcome incredible loss to do inspirational things meet the Israelis that thrive against all odds, and learn how you can too. Absorb yourself in the stories of people who:toughed it out in a Soviet Gulag to emerge a human rights iconovercame disability to pioneer tech helping paraplegics walk againfell from the sky, beating death and emerging an Olympic herowithstood 90% body burns to lead an iconic victory in battlesurvived the Nazis turning from child orphan refugee to spiritual leaderbroke through the glass ceiling to become a female Colonelwent from having limbs blown off to winning high officeovercame death threats to find his voice as an Arab in the Jewish Stateclimbed Mount Everest to forgo reaching the peak in order to save a lifegave up NBA fame to take a tiny country to basketball glorygot elected to parliament, refusing to have others in her community define what a women could achieveturned unbearable grief into a promise to ease the pain of otherswalked barefoot from Africa to reach the Promised Land ...and learn the keys to their resilience.
language: English
title: ISResilience: What Israelis Can Teach the World
publisher: Gefen Publishing Hous