Israel history

Visible everywhere, powerful nowhere: The paradox facing Israeli women in 2026 - analysis

Women are everywhere in Israeli life, but absent where power and protection are decided.

 Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female prime minister, led through a small circle of senior advisers known as ‘Golda’s Kitchen’ from 1969 until 1974 – an exception in a political system where women’s authority has remained limited and largely isolated.
Edouard Cukierman at the GoforIsrael 2023 Investment Conference.

History is happening in 'Israel Valley, The Technology Shield of Innovation' - book excerpt

The dramatic mountaintop site rising 650 meters above the Jordan Valley

Israeli archaeologists uncover remains of dramatic mountaintop royal palace

A RALLY IN 2015 at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv marking 20 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.

My Word: Remembering Israel's assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, 30 years on


Remembering the roots of Israel's National Library

The library was perhaps the one place in Jerusalem where one could find books on mathematics, science, secular philosophy, modern educational methods and other subjects.

THE CONSTRUCTION site of the new National Library in Jerusalem in August, 2020.

Ya’acov Heruti, one of Israel’s first anonymous soldiers

The ‘Magazine’ gets the lowdown on the former LEHI operative, today 93, who almost assassinated the British foreign secretary in 1948

Ya'acov Heruti

Educators call for November to be named 'Israel History Month'

Five key events in Israeli history, including the passing of two UN resolutions, took place in November.

  Former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and former defense minister Shimon Peres on the stairwell leading into Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs in 1976.

Hebrew language, Jewish history and holidays under the microscope

Roots and Rituals provides a fascinating window into the origins of Hebrew words, practices and customs. The diversity of different topics makes it the type of book that one can read at any time.

THE AUTHOR dives deep into the meaning of biblical Hebrew words.

History: How it really was!

Israel’s most important elections

Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, lunches with Ezer Weizman and Menachem Begin at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel on December 11, 1967

Ancient wine press with Talmudic period mosaic floor discovered in Galilee

This is the only mosaic from the time of the Talmud that has been found in the ancient Jewish village of Korazim.

Winepress at Kurazim (Dekel Segev/Nature and Parks Authority)

The Time Tunnel

A new project traces history through the eyes of those who lived it.

DR. BOAZ LEV-TOV introduces the Tarasa project.

Discovered cuneiform reveals Babylonian slave trade in biblical Samaria

The fall of Samaria, which has been known in the Bible to be ruled by the Israelites, has been discussed by numerous scholars and remains a key issue in the Bible.

Cuneiform tablets detailing the daily life of exiled Jews in ancinet Babylon (modern-day Iraq) 2,500 years ago, displayed at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem

The struggle of soviet Jewry: the fall of the communist garden of eden

Surprisingly, part of the struggle for Soviet Jewry was winning over the Israeli government.

THE ISRAELI public demands the release of Soviet Jews

Poliwansky of Edinburgh: the story of a Highland regiment fighter

November 11 marks the centenary of the World War I armistice that ended fighting. The writer tells the story of her father, who fought in a Highland regiment.

‘TO LOOK at my father, no one would ever have dreamt he was a Lithuanian Jew.’