ISResilience
ISResilience by Michael Dickson and Dr. Naomi L. Baum – back cover
ISResilienceISResilience by Michael Dickson and Dr. Naomi L. Baum – back cover

ISResilience

Michael Dickson and Dr. Naomi L. Baum

“…the very heart of the Jewish people’s enigmatic survival.”
Isaac Herzog, President of Israel
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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 icon overcame disability to pioneer tech helping paraplegics walk again fell from the sky, beating death and emerging an Olympic hero withstood 90 body burns to lead an iconic victory in battle survived the Nazis turning from child orphan refugee to spiritual leader broke through the glass ceiling to become a female Colonel went from having limbs blown off to winning high office overcame death threats to find his voice as an Arab in the Jewish State climbed Mount Everest to forgo reaching the peak in order to save a life gave up NBA fame to take a tiny country to basketball glory got elected to parliament, refusing to have others in her community define what a women could achieve turned unbearable grief into a promise to ease the pain of others walked barefoot from Africa to reach the Promised Land …and learn the keys to their resilience.

Michael Dickson is Executive Director of StandWithUs in Israel, an international educational nonprofit dedicated to supporting Israel and fighting antisemitism around the world. Michael is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Communication of Bar-Ilan University. In 2016, he was listed as the fourteenth most influential Jew on Twitter. He is the 2019 winner of the Bonei Zion ("Builder of Zion") Prize and in 2020, he was listed on the Global Jewish 100. He lives in Israel with his wife and five children.
Naomi L. Baum, PhD, consults and facilitates workshops on resilience building in Israel and worldwide. She created the Building Resilience Intervention (BRI), an evidence-based resilience model that has been applied widely in Israel and abroad. She was Director of the Resilience Unit at Metiv - The Israel Psychotrauma Center and co-directed the International Course in Trauma and Resilience in cooperation with the Rothberg School of the Hebrew University. She is the author of several previous books. She lives in Israel with her husband, and is mother of seven, and grandmother of twenty.
BindingHardcover
Published2020
ISBN-139789657023464
Weight0.42 kg

“By elegantly weaving together the fascinating accounts of women and men who underwent and overcame unimaginable conflict, in ISRESILIENCE, Michael Dickson and Dr. Naomi Baum examine the very heart of the Jewish people’s enigmatic survival.”
-Isaac Herzog, President of Israel

“Michael Dickson, an expert in telling Israel’s story, and Dr. Naomi L. Baum have done a great service in sharing the stories and secrets of Israeli resilience with their readers.”
-Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States and United Nations

“A rich, rewarding, multidimensional work… Well written, well told, well paced, and well worth your time, this book will move you to tears — while teaching you how to ‘fall forwards,’ facing adversity with a smile on your face and a glint in your eye, mastering the human — and very Israeli — ability to overcome the toughest of challenges.”
-Professor Gil Troy, author, The Zionist Ideas

“If you want to understand quite how Israelis consistently beat the odds and face down the challenges, while constantly innovating, questioning, and pushing the frontiers of knowledge and achievement, read this book.”
-David Horovitz, Founding Editor, Times of Israel

“This is a book that will engage and inspire you, particularly during these times of great challenge and uncertainty.”
-Yael Eckstein, President, International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

“ISRESILIENCE gives valuable voice to a wide range of diverse voices who share their Israeli experiences of dealing with adversity and overcoming it to build meaningful lives.”
-Einat Wilf, author

“Dr. Naomi Baum and Michael Dickson have written a relevant and timely book that can be a source of strength to countries, communities, organizations, and families…”
-Stephen G. Donshik, eJewishPhilanthropy

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