The debate around the relations between Christians and Jews has recently become one of the discussed issues in the cultural Israeli world. This article examines the references to Christianity and to Jesus in the contemporary Israeli fiction. Through the analysis of some literary works produced by the best-know Israeli writers, we will try to describe the way the authors deal with Christian elements and explore their personal considerations. In particular a great attention will be devoted to Amos Oz’s last novel Judas, published in 2014. The story is based on the life of a young student who is writing a doctoral dissertation on “How Jews see Jesus” but it ends up focusing on the figure of Judas. In revealing the intent of his research the protagonist presents a detailed investigation of the Jewish attitude towards Christians quoting sources from the ancient times until today. Through Oz’s book it is possible to explore the complex relationship between Christians and Jews and offers new starting points for the future debates.

The novel I/e_rus.olim by Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis – representatives of Russian- ‐language literature in Israel – is seen by the author of the article as a writing experiment. The work, representing the Liternet, fits into the paradigm – well‐established in Russian‐Israeli literature – of the new cultural realism, which implies the concept of reality treated as a reflection in literature of the network world concept. However, the pair of authors go further – they identify the world at the same time with the network, hypertext, rhizome, simulacra and hyperreality. All the structural and interpretive elements of the novel permeate and complement each other, resulting in a picture of a multidimensional cultural‐historical reality, with its symbols and memories of the past, a reality recognized and “decoded” by the protagonists – repatriates in the difficult process of building a national self‐awareness.