With both unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel today is at a moment of existential crisis. In My Promised Land, one of Israel's most influential columnists sets out to answer the question of how his beloved country has arrived at this unsettling moment. Rather than rehashing the established narrative--one of wars, treaties, and noted political figures--Ari Shavit tells the stories of ordinary citizens--the grassroots leaders, the farmers, the immigrants, the nightclub owners, th...