After attending law school, he served as a law clerk at the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem. While growing up in Israel, Avraham received an extensive Talmudic education and performed his mandatory military service in the IDF. The Plot to Save America, a mystery set in an authoritarian America, came out in 2022.īesides fiction, he has also authored Your Lawyer on a Short Leash - A Guide to Dealing with Lawyers and One Step Ahead – A Mother of Seven Escaping Hitler’s Claws, an acclaimed WWII true story, which inspired the musical By Wheel and by Wing. A prequel to the Deborah series, The Elixirist, was published in 2020. More recently, he has written a series of novels inspired by the true story of the first woman to lead a nation in human history, starting with Deborah Rising (HarperCollins 2016), which won the 2017 Illumination Book Award for fiction, Deborah Calling (HarperCollins 2017), and continuing with Deborah Slaying and Deborah Striking. His first novel was The Masada Complex (a political thriller), followed by the Israeli spy novels The Jerusalem Inception and The Jerusalem Assassin, as well as Christmas for Joshua (an interfaith family drama), The Mormon Candidate (a political thriller), Thump (a courtroom drama featuring sexual harassment and racism), and The Bootstrap Ultimatum (a mystery involving the commercialization of Memorial Day). Avraham Azrieli writes books and screenplays.

Deborah Rising by Avraham Azrieli