唐娜·罗森塔尔(Donna Rosenthal) 伦敦经济学院国际关系(中东)硕士，以色列电视台新闻制作人，以色列广播电台和《耶路撒冷邮报》的记者，希伯来大学的讲师。在《纽约时报》、《洛杉矶时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《纽约每日新闻》、《新闻周刊》和《大西洋》等报刊上发表许多文章。周游了60多个国家。曾报道了来自伊朗、黎巴嫩、埃及和约旦的消息，是第一个采访埃塞俄比亚边远山村。向以色列广播电台的听众介绍在草棚犹太会堂中村民向移民以色列的埃塞俄比亚犹太人祈祷的记者。三项罗威尔·托马斯奖的获得者(最佳调研报道、最佳冒险游记和外国报道)。

Israel is smaller than New Jersey, with 0.11% of the world's population, yet captures a lion's share of headlines. It looks like one country on CNN, a very different one on al-Jazeera. The BBC has their version, The New York Times theirs. But how does Israel look to Israelis? The answers are varied, and they have been brought together here in one of the most original books about Israel in decades. From battlefields to bedrooms to boardrooms, discover the colliding worlds in which an astounding mix of 7.2 million devoutly traditional and radically modern people live. You'll meet "Arab Jews" who fled Islamic countries, dreadlock-wearing Ethiopian immigrants who sing reggae in Hebrew, Christians in Nazareth who publish an Arabic-style Cosmo , young Israeli Muslims who know more about Judaism than most Jews of the Diaspora, ultra-Orthodox Jews on "Modesty Patrols," and more. Interweaving hundreds of personal stories with intriguing new research, The Israelis is lively, irreverent, and always fascinating.