Nizhny Novgorod: Publishing House of the Nizhny Novgorod University, 2005. 140 p. The author of the reviewed work is the Head of the Department of Regional Studies at the Faculty of International Relations of Nizhny Novgorod State University. This is not his first monograph devoted to the State of Israel. The publishing house of Nizhny Novgorod University published his books " Between War and Peace. On the Process of Making Foreign policy decisions in the State of Israel (1948-1993) (1994), The Sword and Plow of David Ben-Gurion (1996), and the Nizhny Novgorod Journal of International Studies published by the University published numerous articles on the foreign policy and security of the Jewish state and international relations in the Middle East region A. A. Kornilov has long been engaged in the study of Israel and contributes to the creation of the Nizhny Novgorod research school, which examines the problems of Israeli studies and the current stage of the evolution of the Arab world. From the point of view of historical retrospect, this city is one of the first (if not the first) centers of Russian science with a significant field of activity. page 204 It is directly related to Israeli studies and the development of the modern Middle Eastern system of state relations in their regional and global aspects. The dean of the Faculty of International Relations, Prof. O. A. Kolobov, is credited with the creation of the center. Its emergence was made possible by the establishment of multilateral contacts between the University of Nizhny Novgorod and colleagues from Israel, Arab countries and the United States. If we take into account that recently the field of Israeli studies has been expanded by the efforts of Moscow scientists (it is enough to mention, for example, the latest work of I. D. Zvyagelskaya, T. A. Karasova and A.V. Fedorchenko "The State of Israel"), then we can say that in Russia not only a domestic school of Israeli studies has appeared, but also is succe ... Read more