What a Country! Dry Bones Looks at Israel

This collection of more than 300 cartoons created over the last twenty-three years, including a dozen up-to-the-moment ones, takes an often witty, always heartfelt, and sometimes biting look at life in Israel. The book shows the flow of Israeli history as it unfolds "hot off the press." Each of the cartoons is published here without the luxury of hindsight - it is Israeli history as the Israelis have lived it. The book is introduced by Israeli journalist and writer Yossi Klein Halevi.Yaakov Kirschen is the American-born Israeli political cartoonist whose Jerusalem-based Dry Bones comic strip runs in The Jerusalem Report and thirty-five North American newspapers. In addition to his weekly drawing of Dry Bones, he has written three other books. He has been widely interviewed on radio and television, including the major networks, Cable News Network (CNN), National Public Radio (NPR), and the wire services. Kirschen moved to Israel in 1973 and has been drawing Dry Bones ever since. He now lives in Tel Aviv.For its many fans around the globe, Dry Bones provides a window into what Israelis think, feel, and experience, and the strip is often quoted and reprinted in the world press. Kirschen has received personal accolades from Edgar Bronfman, Admiral Rickover, Malcolm Forbes, former President Jimmy Carter, the former Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek, and many more.Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior writer for The Jerusalem Report and author of Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist: An American Story. He has written for The New York Times and Time magazine and is a frequent commentator on Israeli affairs for The Los Angeles Times.