Shimon Peres, at 90, still going strong
Israel’s oldest leader reflects on his decades-long political career and his surprise popularity as president
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President delivers keynote address at 90th birthday celebration calling on Palestinians, Israelis to offer ‘our children a ray of hope’
View ArticleFire in the hole: Blasting the Altalena
Sixty-five years after the Irgun ship was shelled by order of Ben-Gurion, with the loss of 16 lives, previously unpublished interviews with several interested parties underline how deeply the...
View ArticleWhen Argentina sold uranium oxide to Israel
In 1963, the Latin American country provided Israel with key material for its nuclear weapons program, report says
View ArticlePrickly past: A trip to Mitzpe Revivim
Few can comprehend the reality of pre-state life, when the British ruled the country. The restored Mitzpe Revivim offers physical evidence of the pioneers and their travails
View ArticleThe IDF promotion that took 60 years
Yitzhak Pundak, 100, is finally to get the rank of major general, which was promised to him by Moshe Dayan… in 1954
View ArticleIngathering and digitizing the Diaspora’s rare Hebrew books
Israel’s National Library and Italy’s Palatina Library cooperate to put one of the world’s largest collections of Jewish manuscripts online
View ArticleNetanyahu pleads for ‘a Palestinian Ben-Gurion’
At ceremony marking 40 years since first prime minister’s death, PM hopes a courageous counterpart will emerge to advocate for peace
View ArticleBedouin to be evacuated to make way for Jewish town
Residents and environmental organization protest plan to construct two settlements in Negev, one on the site of a Bedouin village
View ArticleLivni backs Netanyahu in opposing ‘bad deal’ with Iran
Justice minister says interim agreement runs risk of becoming permanent and wouldn’t deter Tehran from pursuing nukes
View ArticleHeated debate in Knesset over Bedouin resettlement
Balad MK calls proposed legislation a ‘transfer plan’; Jewish Home MKs say Bedouin communities have been uncooperative
View ArticleGo cemetery hopping — it’s not all that grave
Take a trip around some of the country’s most significant burial grounds, replete with beauty and history
View ArticleIsrael’s indomitable protector, Ariel Sharon emblemized military audacity,...
Ben-Gurion called him the ‘greatest field commander’; later, the country entrusted him with its security, knowing the consequences could be unpredictable
View ArticleHaredim are ‘industrious and intelligent workers,’ so hire them
There’s more to the famous meeting between David Ben-Gurion and Haredi sage the Hazon Ish than most people realize
View ArticleWhen Rothschild Boulevard put down roots and declared independence
Zionist pioneers planned a Tel Aviv thoroughfare to match the boulevards of Paris. They wound up with something uniquely Israeli, and still evolving
View ArticleGolda and Ben-Gurion, the toys
Move over menorahs; it’s time for historical figurines on the shelf
View ArticleFading Declaration of Independence given Dead Sea Scroll treatment
Multispectral imaging machine, normally used to examine 2,000-year-old artifacts, utilized to begin process of preserving founding document
View ArticleNew Likud ad highlights past US rift over creation of state
Clip likens Netanyahu’s insistence to speak to Congress on Iran to Ben-Gurion’s decision to declare independence despite some US opposition
View ArticleA bus cooperative for Sabbath riders
A group of Jerusalemites are putting the final touches on Shabus, an alternative for secular residents
View ArticleToons pitch Zionism to millennials
Filmmaker hopes hundreds of videos will strengthen Jewish sense of belonging to Israel
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