The American Jewish Novelists Imagining Israel’s Demise

Middle Eastern leaders have been predicting and threatening the annihilation of Israel from the first day of its existence, Western experts—claiming to be sympathetic—have often prophesied impending doom, and even ardent Zionists get spooked from time to time, as did Moshe Dayan during the opening days of the Yom Kippur War when he warned of the possible destruction of the “Third Temple.” But Benjamin Resnick’s first novel imagines a very different kind of catastrophe, one drawn not from military or political dangers but from science fiction. Akiva Schick reviews Next Stop, which takes place two decades after