Avraham Azrieli’s novel The Elixirist, a coming-of-age adventure set in ancient Israel, won the 2021 Reviewers Choice Award - Reader Views. Deborah Rising (HarperCollins, 2016), featuring the first woman to lead a nation in human history, won the 2017 Illumination Book Award. An earlier book, One Step Ahead – A Mother of Seven Escaping Hitler’s Claws, inspired the musical By Wheel and by Wing.