World war i

The Somme, 110 years on: The Jewish soldiers who fought and died

The Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest and most infamous battles in history, was intended to break the German lines and bring World War I closer to an Allied victory.

British infantry soldiers running out of their trenches at the signal to assault  the Somme, France, 1916.
A general view of the White House in Washington, DC, US, July 20, 2025.

America’s ‘luck’ is running out: The lost industrial engine that powered US greatness - opinion

Wreckage of the US Coast Guard Cutter Tampa found by British diving team Gasperados off the coast of England, May 4, 2026.

Divers find wreck of Coast Guard ship torpedoed by Germans, US’ largest naval loss of World War I

Typewriter.

Voices Israel anthology 2025: Celebrating English poetry shaped by war, love, and memory


Elderly French man inserts WWI-era bomb up rectum, causes evacuation - report

Strange objects being inserted into one's body for sexual purposes isn't anything doctors aren't used to, but an artillery shell is nonetheless something nobody saw coming

 World War I artillery shells (Illustrative).

Nazi-looted sheet music returned to modern heirs

Beethoven gave the sheet music to his secretary before it found its way to the wealthy Czechoslovakian Petschek family.

 Beethoven’s handwritten manuscript for the fourth movement of his String Quartet in B-flat Major

Are Israeli-Australian ties in danger? - opinion

Building on these foundations, today’s Israel-Australia partnership encompasses robust economic ties, as well as cooperation in vital matters of national security. Now it's in danger.

 MEMBERS OF the Australian Light Horse Association take part in a reenactment of the famous World War One cavalry charge known as the ‘Battle of Beersheba,’ as part of events marking its centenary, in Beersheba, 2017.

The immutable links between Israel and South Africa

While the current government policy might be a short-term view, events that have taken place tell a very different tale.

 1 Cape Corps during World War I

The 51 South Africans who died fighting in Israel in World War I

On the morning of September 20, 1918, less than two months before the end of the war, those 51 young men, so far away from home, were covered in blood and glory.

 THE COMMONWEALTH War Graves Commission’s Jerusalem War Cemetery, Mount Scopus.

On this day: 105th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration

105-years-ago, Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour wrote a letter that made history.

Lord Arthur James Balfour and the text of the Balfour Declaration

Grapevine October 30, 2022: A mega performing arts campus

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 ROM LEFT: Arieh Budnik and Daniel Farcas, both from Chile and who have children at Reichman University, along with head of the Raphael Recanati International School Jonathan Davis at the institution’s Orientation Day

WWI antisemitism was a warm-up for the Nazis, Holocaust - review

The Impact of World War One on the Jewish People shines a spotlight on the rampant antisemitism in Eastern Europe, which helped the Nazis carry out their mass murder of millions of Jews.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a reinterment ceremony for John Henry Patterson near Netanya in 2014. He was a British commander of the Jewish Legion during World War I, and his ashes were reburied in Israel.

Wreckage of torpedoed WWI US Navy ship found by divers

The ship was reportedly sunk by German forces during the First World War more than a hundred years ago.

 USS Jacob Jones.

'Your rabbi was taken as a hostage': Accounts of Russian tactics in WWI

Hostage-taking and forced migration were just two methods used by Russian forces in Ukraine and Poland a century ago.

 Jewish burial near the Galician theater of war, 1915.