The Judges

From the writer, humanist, activist, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize comes a timely and gripping story of guilt and innocence – and of the peril of pronouncing judgments. A plane en route to Tel Aviv is forced down by bad weather, and some nearby residents provides refuge for five of its passengers: Claudia, who has left her husband for a new love; Razziel, a religious teacher who was once a political prisoner; Yoav, a terminally ill Israeli commando; George, an archivist who is hiding a Holocaust secret; and Bruce, a would-be priest turned philanderer. Their host, who calls himself the Judge, forces them to face the truth of their lives and pronounces that the least worthy of them will die.