About the author

Donna Rosenthal is the author of the award-winning THE ISRAELIS: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land. Called the best book about Israelis in decades, THE ISRAELIS has more than 100 excellent reviews across the religious and political spectrums: from the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post to The Jerusalem Post and Haaretz to The Japan Times.

Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Daily News, Newsweek and The Atlantic and many other publications. She was a news producer at Israel Television, reporter for Israel Radio and The Jerusalem Post, and a lecturer at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Ms. Rosenthal has reported from Iran, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan and was the first journalist to travel to remote mountain villages of Ethiopia and introduce Israeli radio audiences to Jews praying -- in mud hut synagogues -- to go to the Promised Land.

A winner of three Lowell Thomas awards: Best Investigative Reporting, Best Foreign Travel (The New York Times) and Best Adventure Travel Writing, she's visited more than sixty countries. She has a Masters degree (International Relations/Middle East) from The London School of Economics.

She frequently is interviewed on tv and radio about Israel -- from CNN to ABC to National Public Radio. In Publishers Weekly's national survey, Ms. Rosenthal placed in the TOP TEN most popular speakers -- and only female non-fiction author.

Ms. Rosenthal has taught journalism at three universities and has lectured about modern Israelis -- from Harvard to Georgetown. She holds a BA from University of California Berkeley (Political Science) and a Master of Science (International Relations/Middle East) from The London School of Economics.

THE ISRAELIS is dedicated to the cornea donor who died on a day when Passover, Easter, and Id al-Fatir coincided and gave Rosenthal the gift of sight. A portion of the profits will be donated to Adi, the Israel Organ Donor Society. Through it, Jewish, Muslim and Christian Israelis and Palestinians save each other's lives.

Donna Rosenthal can be reached via email at info@theisraelis.net