1948

Repatriation (Aliyah): From Soviet Underground to a Conflict-Free Double Loyalty

On Aliyah Day, Israel remembers the men and women who paved the way for national revival

Dr Haim Ben Yaakov
 Operation Horev, 1948

Israel Independence Day: 1948 calls out to a broken 2025 - opinion

 YEHUDA BAUER

Global Jewry pays tribute to professor and Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer

 THE WRITER (center, wearing a cap) attends a Nifgashim gathering in Tel Aviv. Despite all the hardships and losses, the people of Israel reveal their courage, the writer asserts.

76 years of hope: Reflecting on Israel's journey from pioneers to modern unity - opinion


How is Jerusalem's sewage regulated? - new report

The goal was to restore its natural resources, a task estimated at 1 billion shekels. For the first time, the regulation of sewage from eastern Jerusalem is nearing completion.

 Floods following a few days of heavy rain, in Nahal Kidron, in the Judean desert. November 27, 2014.

Archival records show planned US embassy located on Palestinian property - Arab NGO

Lease agreements and maps show Palestinians owned land designated for a new US embassy in Jerusalem, according to Israeli-based Arab rights NGO Adalah.

The US Embassy in Jerusalem

‘Nakba’ film ‘Tantura’ premieres locally this week

Tantura is the story of one Israeli graduate student who documented personal testimony of atrocities committed in one Arab village whose residents experienced the Nakba.

A still from the film 'Tantura'.

Celebrating Israel's 74th and launching into the 75th - opinion

Spearheaded by Israel’s outstanding president, Isaac Herzog, the 75th should salute the ways Israel has dazzled since 1948.

David Ben-Gurion sits under a portrait of Theodor Herzl, before the reading of Israel’s Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948.

Israel Independence: Remembering a failed attack on Jaffa Gate in 1948

It was like somebody watching in a theater when the plot had become complicated and unsolvable, and knowing that now the turn of the deus ex machina had arrived, except I was the one on the stage.

 JAFFA GATE, 1968.

Remembering the life of Irgun member and activist Shulamit Dissentshik

 EARLY ZIONIST: Shulamit Dralitz Pashtizky Dissentshik.

How was 'Israel' once 'Palestine'? New books and old coins

In a world of nation-states, names are very important and those responsible for choosing the name Israel for the world’s newest state in May 1948 knew what they were doing. 

 The writer’s bronze coin dated 1946.

PA TV distorts Israeli archives, claiming Arabs were massacred en masse

Palestinian TV host Nasser Al-Lahham has also compared incoming Prime Minister-designate Naftali Bennett to Adolf Eichmann.

PALESTINIAN PRESENTER Raji Al-Hams (right) listens to Hamas official Salah al-Bardweel at the studio of Hamas-run al-Aqsa TV in Gaza City in 2015. The studio is decorated with slogans praising the ‘Knife Intifada.’

David Ben David cheated death and missed Israel’s birth

David Ben David swam to Haifa in 1940, unknowingly escaping the ill-fated "Patria". He spent most of the 1948 war as a POW, saved from death more than once by his Arab Legion captors.

David Ben David during the 1948 siege of Kfar Etzion, where many of his comrades were killed by enemy forces. From his autobiography, Gesher al Tehumot (Bridge over the Abysses).

Rivlin to play his predecessor, Chaim Weizmann, in new TV season

The series tells the story of the young people who served in the Palmah starting in 1946. President Rivlin will play Israel's first president Chaim Weizmann.

REUVEN RIVLIN with Orly Atlas-Katz.