Israel at Forty

The number forty has always been highly significant in biblical language: Israel was forty years in the wilderness. Jesus fasted in the wilderness forty days. From the day of its seemingly miraculous birth forty years ago, the nation of Israel has undergone testings of all kinds. Still, despite threats by Arab neighbors to "push them into the sea," citizens of the proud nation of Israel thrive, causing the desert wasteland to literally bloom. What in Israel has changed in these last forty years? What is it like today? Is the restored Israel anything like the Israel of David's or Jesus' day? Authors Willmington and Pritz answer these and other questions in dozens of fascinating topic areas. "Israel at Forty" is an up-to-date picture of life in Israel on the fortieth birthday of that nation.