David Ben-Gurion

Israel’s critics undermine real accountability with reckless accusations - opinion

The debate over Israel, Hamas, and sexual violence raises larger questions about media standards, evidence, and political bias.

 Nicholas Kristof at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Gideon Sa'ar

Israel’s legitimacy is under attack in the free world, must be defended - opinion

DAVID BEN-GURION announces the establishment of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948.

Here’s why May 14 is a date that matters – opinion

Prayer in a Safed bomb shelter.

Israel at 78: Unbowed, strong, and determined as it swings between a miracle and a mess - comment


Newly published documents belonging to Israel's first prime minister reveal eerily relevant message

Ben-Gurion recognized early on what became a well-known reality in the following decades: front lines that reach population centers, and the home front becoming a critical component of the war.

Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion

Time to implement Ben-Gurion’s vision: Litani River is Israel's natural northern border - opinion

The very founder of the State of Israel understood what we are painfully relearning today through war and bloodshed: the Litani River is the only defensible northern border for the Jewish state.

An illustrative image of Louaize in southern Lebanon.

Capturing a nation: Werner Braun’s photographic journey

Experience Israel’s history through Werner Braun’s lens at the Between Water and Sky exhibition at MUZA, Ramat Aviv.

Werner Braun's 1964 picture of five nuns in the Valley of the Cross in Jerusalem is a symphony in monochrome.

Middle Israel: Sleeping with Somaliland is good, waltzing with it is bad - opinion

Israel’s recognition this week of Somaliland – a self-declared country in northeast Africa – is part of a time-honored legacy with its fair share of foresight and risk.

THE KIND OF of strategic alliance that Israel is nurturing in Somaliland already emerged last year, when Somaliland signed a deal with Ethiopia, leasing to its landlocked neighbor a 20-km. coastal strip for a naval base.

Defense Minister Israel Katz is a strategic liability that Israel cannot afford - opinion

Israel's defense minister does not have the skills that his job demands. The kind of strategizing that Ben-Gurion, Eshkol, and Arens did in their jobs is beyond Katz’s abilities

Defence Minister Israel Katz inspects a missile at the Tel Nof Air Force base in March.

'Courageous leadership required': Zamir seems to jab gov't at Ben-Gurion remembrance event

This came after clashing on Monday with Defense Minister Israel Katz over the October 7 probes after the move to reexamine the Turgeman committee report.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir at David Ben-Gurion's grave in Sde Boker.

Drafts of Ben-Gurion's 'Revolution of the Spirit' speech unveiled in honor of first PM's death

“This document is an invitation to rethink ‘the day after’ and what is required of us in our own day,” Director General of the Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute, Eitan Donitz, said.

Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion

Ben-Gurion's historic neighborhood revived in Sde Boker restoration project

Ben-Gurion's former neighborhood has been revitalized through a new restoration project at Kibbutz Sde Boker.

Ben-Gurion staute, located in Ben-Gurion Hut compound, Sde Boker.

On This Day: IDF soldier fatally shoots Hamas arch-terrorist, Oct. 7 mastermind, Yahya Sinwar

Sources close to the matter told The Jerusalem Post at the time that the operation was not intended to kill Sinwar, implying that soldiers found him through coincidence.

 A person holds a cut-out depicting late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar as protesters, predominantly Houthi supporters, demonstrate to show solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and to condemn the U.S. strikes in Yemen, in Sanaa, Yemen April 11, 2025.

This week in Jewish history: High Holy Days, return of Yemeni Jews, Second Intifada

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

YEMENI JEWS are brought home: From Aden to Israel via plane, their personal ‘wings of eagles,’ around 1950.