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Just published:
A Crack in the Earth
A Journey Up Israel’s Rift Valley
“A graceful, erudite guide leads
us across a fractured land.”
— Kirkus Reviews
"Watzman is a talented storyteller,
deftly engaging readers interested in the Earth's constant
evolution, along with those more likely to be interested
in the humanity affected by it. With a nice sense of
irony and the absurd, the American-born Watzman makes
a lively tale out of his travels in the valley, lending
a practiced ear to experts and plain folks alike. .
. . a thoroughly enjoyable read."
-- Publishers Weekly
Fractured
Land
"Haim Watzman's 'Crack in the Earth'
is a graceful travelogue that blends science and storytelling."
by Sandee Brawarsky
- The Jewish Week
"Watzman’s characters are
diverse and thoughtful, ideological yet internally conflicted.
He himself - at once deeply religious yet politically
liberal, bound to both God and to science, confident
yet continuing to ask questions of self-identity - presents
a living example of values that many would claim are
fundamentally incompatible. And he does this with grace,
humility and humor, and with respect and sensitivity
to the eclectic characters he finds on Israel’s
Route 90." more...
-Ha'aretz
The Jordan Rift Valley, stretching from
the Red Sea to Lebanon, was ripped open millions of
years ago by vast forces within the earth. This geological
object has also been a part of human history ever since
early humans used it as a path in their journey out
of Africa. And for a quarter of a century it has been
part of the biography of Haim Watzman, an Israeli journalist.
more...
 Now
out in paperback:
Company C
Published by Farrar,
Straus and Giroux,
June 2005
ONE
OF THE 25 BEST BOOKS OF 2005
-Kirkus Reviews
Hadassah
National Book Club selection for 2006
"A story of one man's struggle between
duty and faith, conscience and commitment--a story of
contemporary Israel."
-- Michael B. Oren, The Washington Post Book World
"A window into the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, as well as into the moral dilemmas and passionate
attachments of the individual citizen-soldier"
-- Middle East Journal
When American-born Haim Watzman immigrated
to Israel, he was drafted into the army and, after eighteen
months of compulsory service, assigned to Company C,
the reserve infantry unit that would define the next
twenty years of his life.
From 1984 until 2002, for at least a month a year, Watzman,
who had never aspired to military adventure, was a soldier.
more...
Essays and Journalism
by Haim Watzman
Orders
are orders. Even if they disagreed, the Israeli soldiers
who refused to evacuate settlers from Hebron had no
right to disobey their commanders.
August 8, 2007
Shut
Down Army Programs For Diaspora Youth
August 3, 2007
Israel's
Incredible Shrinking Sea
July 29, 2007
The
Great Brain: Pseudo-science helps a family straddle
the Sephardi-Ashkenazi divide
June 12, 2007
Deep
Divisions: Archaeologists are unearthing remarkable
finds in Jerusalem. But the digs have sparked an argument
over who should run the site and present its results
to the public.
May 3, 2007
Firmly
in the Fold
S. Yizhar harangued and criticized the country he loved
May
9, 2007
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