One for your reading list

The New York Times' Ethan Bronner reviews Yossi Klein HaLevi's Like Dreamers. This is from the first link.

Mr. Halevi, an American immigrant who has worked as a journalist and
analyst in Jerusalem for 30 years, has created a textured, beautifully
written narrative by focusing on seven men — and they are all men — Mr.
Porat among them, who served in the paratroop brigade that conquered the