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An illuminating and richly descriptive (New York Times Book Review) portrait of contemporary Israel, revealing the diversity of this extraordinary yet volatile nation by weaving together personal histories of ordinary citizens from all walks of life.

In Twelve Tribes, Ethan Michaeli proves he is a master portraitist of lives, places, and cultures. His rendering of contemporary Israel crackles with energy, fueled by a historians vision and a journalists unrelenting curiosity. Evan Osnos, New York Times bestselling author of Age of Ambition and Wildland

In 2015, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin warned that the countrys citizens were dividing into tribes: by class and ethnicity, by geography, and along lines of faith. In Twelve Tribes, award-winning author Ethan Michaeli portrays this increasingly fractured nation by intertwining interviews with Israelis of all tribes into a narrative of social and political change. Framed by Michaelis travels across the country over four years and his conversations with Israeli family, friends, and everyday citizens, Twelve Tribes illuminates the complex dynamics within the country, a collective drama with global consequences far beyond the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.

Readers will meet the aging revolutionaries who founded Israels kibbutz movement and the brilliant young people working for the countrys booming Big Tech companies. They will join thousands of ultra-Orthodox Haredim at a joyous memorial for a long-dead Romanian Rebbe in a suburb of Tel Aviv, and hear the life stories of Ethiopian Jews who were incarcerated and tortured in their homeland as Prisoners of Zion before they were able to escape to Israel. And they will be challenged, in turn, by portraits of Israeli Arabs navigating between the opportunities in a prosperous, democratic state and the discrimination they suffer as a vilified minority, as by interviews with both the Palestinians striving to build the institutions of a nascent state and the Israeli settlers seeking to establish a Jewish presence on the same land.

Immersive and enlightening, Twelve Tribes is a vivid depiction of a modern state contending with ancient tensions and dangerous global forces at this crucial historic moment. Through extensive research and access to all sectors of Israeli society, Michaeli reveals Israel to be a land of paradoxical intersections and unlikely cohabitationa place where all of the worlds struggles meet, and a microcosm for the challenges faced by all nations today.

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Contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Preface: The Pilots
  5. Twelve Tribes
  6. 1: Gretti and Shmulik
  7. 2: Haifa
  8. 3: Order 8
  9. 4: The King of Falafel
  10. 5: The Western Wall
  11. 6: Rav Nachmans Chair
  12. 7: El Marsa
  13. 8: The Genazim
  14. 9: Kabbalistic Kugel
  15. 10: Psagot
  16. 11: Alam
  17. 12: Ofer Likes to Cook
  18. 13: The Saturday Morning Crew
  19. 14: Maagan
  20. 15: Razallah
  21. 16: Tomika
  22. 17: The Wolves and the King
  23. 18: When the Messiah Dies
  24. 19: Sami and Susu
  25. 20: Hadsh
  26. 21: David
  27. 22: Israel in Chicago
  28. 23: Prisoner of Zion
  29. 24: The Pictures on the Wall
  30. 25: Issa Amro
  31. 26: Hugging the Tzadik
  32. 27: Belaynesh
  33. 28: From Ohio to Ramallah
  34. 29: Zimam
  35. 30: Rami
  36. 31: Eran
  37. 32: Benny Brown
  38. 33: Ponevezh
  39. 34: Jamal
  40. Epilogue
  41. Acknowledgments
  42. Index
  43. About the Author
  44. Also by Ethan Michaeli
  45. Copyright
  46. About the Publisher
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  15. xx
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  18. iv
Preface
The Pilots
In August 2014, I visited Israel for ten days that happened to coincide with the end of one of the wars with its Palestinian neighbors. That summer had seen an escalating cycle of violence beginning in June, when three Israeli Jewish teenage boys hitchhiking near the West Bank settlement where they lived were kidnapped and then murdered. Mobs of vengeful Jews rampaged through the streets of Jerusalem in retaliation, burning and destroying property as they searched for Arabs to lynch. One sixteen-year-old Palestinian boy was indeed abducted, beaten to death, and then set ablaze in a forest just outside of town. Palestinians on the West Bank responded to news of that murder with their own demonstrations, lobbing stones against the Israeli police and military sent to quell the unrest.
More intense fighting yet took place in the south, in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, from which territory the Islamist group Hamas fired rockets and mortars into Israel, killing several people and injuring a score more. In a few cases, Hamas fighters entered the country through secretly dug tunnels, emerging into a kibbutz close to the border, where they killed a number of soldiers stationed there in the event of just such an attack. At first, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu limited his response to strikes by fighter jets and drones. Then, in the middle of July, he ordered Israeli ground troops to invade Gaza, where soldiers engaged Hamass irregular troops in brutal hand-to-hand combat amid tight warrens of homes and businesses, resulting in hundreds of casualties: combatants on both sides as well as civilians, including many children.
I watched the hostilities unfold over CNN from Okinawa, Japan, where my wife and I were visiting her family. Even with ground combat continuing, Hamas fired its missiles from Gaza deep inside Israel, coming close to Ben Gurion Airport on a few occasions. CNN also showed widespread destruction and death among Gazas Palestinians as a result of Israeli military attacks from the air.
The images from Israel and Gaza alternated with scenes of combat in the United States: In Ferguson, Missouri, large groups of protesters, mostly African American teenagers and young adults, were shown running from phalanxes of police officers wearing black helmets and body armor and carrying shields, batons, and firearms. The officers were supported by multiple military vehicles, modified personnel carriers firing tear gas bombs from turrets on the top. CNN reported that the demonstrations, which began in protest of the killing of a young man during a confrontation with a police officer, had now devolved into looting and violence, broadcasting images of stores with broken windows and smashed doors.
I had been planning to fly from Japan to Israel on my own so that I could spend time with my brother Gabriel. Having been to Israel during other conflicts, I myself wasnt worried. Israel had faced foreign armies with serious capabilities in the past, after all, while Hamas was a homegrown militia of a few thousand fighters. Just two days before I was supposed to leave, moreover, Hamas and Israel ended up declaring a cease-fire. Still, it felt prudent not to have my wife and six-year-old child joining me; she was understandably terrified by even the remotest potentiality of being hit by a rocket.
Though biologically full brothers, Gabi and I are seventeen and one-half years apartsixty-four and forty-six at the time of this tripour respective generations as foreign to each other, really, as our nationalities. We didnt grow up together in the same house, or even the same country, our parents having been in entirely different phases of life when they raised each of us. Gabi was born on a kibbutz on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and came of age in an Israel that was economically strapped and under constant threat of war. He was already thirteen when he came to the United States with my parents and attended Monroe High School in Rochester, New York. In contrast with the austerity and militant solidarity he grew up with in Israel, Gabi had arrived in the United States just in time to sample the prosperity of an unprecedented economic boom and to experience the impact of the ongoing civil rights movement as Monroe High School was integrating its student body. Baffled at first by American manners and racial dynamics, he nevertheless adapted well, became the schools tennis star, and fell just short of the state championship. I was born during Gabis senior year at Monroe, 19671968, and within a matter of months, he had already returned to Israel to start his mandatory military service.
Dont get killed over there, read one signature in his yearbook. But if you do, it was great to know you.
My parents had initially planned to return to Israel as well, after my father had earned a bachelors degree in engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology, but then he found a series of rewarding jobs at factories in the area, and decided to pursue a masters at night while he worked. My younger brother, Dani, was born when I was two, and when I was four, our parents bought a house in the suburb of Brighton, known for its large Jewish population and excellent public schools. My mother began to teach Hebrew at a large synagogues thriving day school.
My parents kept a room for Gabi in the suburban house where he had never lived, but I saw him in person only during visits to steamy Tel Aviv during summer vacation, and the incongruity between our lives stood out at several key junctures. I can recall coming home from Council Rock Elementary School in the fall of 1973 to find my mother perched over the radio, attempting to hear the latest details of the fighting between Arab armies and Israel, fighting in which Gabi was a front-line combatant. Later, as I made my way through middle and high school, Gabi went to law school, got married, and set about raising two children.
As adults, we have tried to compensate for the differences in our ages, geography, and life experience with short, intense visitsusually around weddings, birthdays, or other family eventsa few days stolen away in the name of reclaimed brotherhood, or even just a few hours. Our longest time together was a ten-day trip in Sicily in 2007, when he was fifty-seven, his daughters all grown up, and I was thirty-nine, my son not yet born. Gabi had been there several times before, and he drove us around the island in a rental car, from its lush beaches to its snow-covered volcanic slopes, exploring crumbling hilltop villages and coastal towns whose histories were Roman, Byzantine, Arab, African, Ottoman, and Norman. Since that trip, however, our respective schedules had been dictated entirely by work and family obligations, and we knew the summer of 2014 was a singular opportunity to spend a few days together. War or no war, then, I resolved to go as planned.
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