An Unlikely Bestseller: What Israel's Soldiers Are Reading Before They Go to War. Israel365

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After that, I will pour out My spirit on all flesh; Your sons and daughters shall prophesy;

Your elders shall dream dreams, And your youths shall see visions.

וְהָיָה אַחֲרֵי־כֵן אֶשְׁפּוֹךְ אֶת־רוּחִי עַל־כׇּל־בָּשָׂר וְנִבְּאוּ בְּנֵיכֶם וּבְנוֹתֵיכֶם זִקְנֵיכֶם חֲלֹמוֹת יַחֲלֹמוּן בַּחוּרֵיכֶם חֶזְיֹנוֹת יִרְאוּ

Joel 3:1 (The Israel Bible)

v'-ha-YAH a-kha-ray KHAYN esh-POKH et ru-KHEE al kol ba-SAR, v'-ni-b'-U b'-nay-KHEM uv-no-tay-KHEM, zik-nay-KHEM kha-lo-MOT ya-kha-lo-MUN, ba-khu-ray-KHEM khez-yo-NOT yir-U

An Unlikely Bestseller: What Israel's Soldiers Are Reading Before They Go to War By Rabbi Elie Mischel

A few weeks ago, I was reading the national bestseller list published in Israel Hayom when I noticed something surprising. There, sitting in the top ten among all the new releases, was a book first translated into Hebrew fifty years ago: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. In 2026, in the middle of a war, this book is one of the ten bestselling books in Israel. I've read Man's Search for Meaning multiple times. It is one of those books you can never forget, a book that has stayed with me since I first read it when I was a sophomore in high school. Frankl was an Austrian Jewish psychiatrist who survived Auschwitz, Dachau, and two other Nazi concentration camps. His central argument, built from everything he experienced in those camps, is this: meaning is not a luxury. It is what keeps people alive. The prisoners who lost their sense of purpose inevitably lost their will to survive. READ MORE: https://theisraelbible.com/an-unlikely-bestseller-what-israels-soldiers-are-reading-before-they-go-to-war/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=An%20Unlikely%20Bestseller%3A%20What%20Israel%20s%20Soldiers%20Are%20Reading%20Before%20They%20Go%20to%20War&utm_campaign=I365%20-%20Daily%20-%20May%2027%2C%202026&vgo_ee=XtE3o1QSEOZU0Z%2BzSuRW6wkXEtu5pR%2BC4IkUFu8njhJ8Xw2RvtXC9PXX%3AdziP2qyVQkvq0rNSe572uqBTedTWeZiv