In this book you will find stories about famous people of Israel - heroes, scientists, soldiers, politicians. But these are not dry biographies. The author of this book, Vladimir Fromer, considers Stefan Zweig his predecessor, and the reader will feel this himself. The genre of romantic biography is a difficult genre, although the essays themselves are easy and exciting to read. But the author must not only thoroughly study the hero’s life, but also, as it were, live this life together with the hero. Fromer succeeds. He has lived in Israel for many years, he himself was a soldier, fought, and knows Israeli life from the inside. And therefore, by reading his wonderful book, you yourself will enter this life - into the world of a soldier and a politician, an adventurer and a scientist. Undoubtedly, it will interest a wide range of readers.