Given the current situation, it makes perfect sense to revisit the chronicles and articles that Josep Pla wrote about Israel for Destinationwhich he later turned into the book Israel in 1957Furthermore, after the Hamas attacks of October 2023 and the war of extermination against the Palestinians waged by the Netanyahu government ever since, presenting Pla's book today is no easy task. The journalist Andreu Barnils wrote the prologue, and it has been well done: he provides historical perspective and compares past and present—before, Israel was David, he says, and now it is Goliath—; he strives to be guided by a coherent but not didactic ethical compass; he criticizes the exaggerated paternalism with which Europeans approach the Arab-Israeli conflict and judge Jews and Muslims; he combines general reflection with personal experiences...