Haganah

Anyone fortunate enough to have misspent a postwar American childhood reading comic books will no doubt recall that whenever his job at the Daily…

FOR MANY YEARS I HAD A kind of a soft spot in the softer portions of my head for Leon Uris. The author of “Exodus” and a dozen other blockbuster…

The Middle East is in turmoil: a violent revolution in Tunisia, Lebanon on the verge of internal conflict and blood being spilled in Egyptian…

On January 24, 1965, Syrian secret police raided an upscale apartment in Damascus and arrested businessman Kamel Amin Tha’abet. Accused of being an…

Political parties in Israel are dynamic – changing names, splitting apart, joining together and shifting their platforms as time goes by. The latest…

In the beginning, there were a few English Zionist women, wives of prominent Zionists, who directed their efforts toward reducing infant mortality in…

WHEN HER son Jonathan, who with his wife Sarah volunteers at Jerusalem’s Carmei Ha’ir soup kitchen, suggested to Joanne Caras that she write a…

As Holon basks in its well-earned international recognition as a forward- thinking cultural hotspot, it has not forgotten its history. It’s perhaps…

Maj.-Gen. (res.) Avraham Tamir will be laid to rest on Tuesday afternoon in a full military service at the military cemetery of Kiryat Shaul. Tamir…

FOR THOSE who keep looking for signs of rapprochement with Turkey, one indication might be the invitation sent out by Turkish Charge d’Affaires Tolga…

Strong winds, heavy rain and snow wreaked havoc across Israel on Sunday morning, in the winter season's first major storm. The Environmental…

When the first dwellings were constructed on its edges in the 1880s, Rehov Ethiopia was only an extremely narrow dirt road. But today’s Rehov…

I consider myself a lucky man. Having reached nearly 90 and having worked at The Jerusalem Post and its predecessor, The Palestine Post, for the past…

By pure coincidence, the main opposing forces in Safed’s latest anti-Arab flare-up are next-door neighbors. One is Eli Zvieli, 89, who became a…

Red Army veteran Shalom Scopas defies his 85 years as he dashes about the mini-museum of World War II memorabilia he has created in the basement of…

EVERY ISRAELI REMEMBERS WHERE HE OR SHE was when Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. I was in Washington, D.C., where my husband was serving at the…

That we even have to ask the question “can Jews live in a Palestinian state” tells you how bad relations between Israelis and Palestinians have…

The last time Eva Feld visited Jerusalem – in November 1946 – she sat guarding a crate of hand grenades with her life as her convoy of 10 vehicles,…

Survivors left out in the cold Sir, – Since May, 2010, Holocaust survivors have been entitled to receive a 50 percent reduction on medications from…

A 27-year-old resident of Jaffa was shot outside of his home by an unidentified gunman on Friday night. The man was rushed to the Wolfson Medical…