War of Independence

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
 Operation Horev, 1948

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

Security forces arrive at the scene of a suspected terror attack near Elazar, in Gush Etzion, on March 21, 2024. Beyond its historical significance, Gush Etzion is a critical asset for Israel’s future, the writer explains.

Settler leader to 'Post': Gush Etzion is a critical asset for Israel’s future - opinion

 A flight from Aden, Yemen, to the newly formed State of Israel during Operation Magic Carpet, which brought thousands of Yemeni Jews to the Holy Land (1949-1950).

Palestinians should be resettled in Arab countries that expelled their Jews - opinion


The story of the daring pilot Zahara Levitov

Zahara Levitov was a Palmach fighter and among the first women to fly planes in the newly established IDF, but her service was cut short by a tragic crash.

 Zahara Levitov

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.

Ukrainian resistance echoes Israel's resistance in War of Independence - opinion

The war in Ukraine has a number of similarities to the War of Independence in 1948.

 THE DAY after the State of Israel is declared in May 1948, a group of Hagana fighters, including a woman, celebrates after taking control of Jaffa.

Harold ‘Smoky’ Simon dies at 101

Mahal legend and former IAF COO Harold 'Smoky' Simon dies at the ripe age of 101

Harold “Smoky” Simon

A Jerusalem plaza has been named for David Rakia. Who is he?

Rakia, who fled Nazi Austria and took Jerusalem into his heart, soul and art, now has his own spot in the city that meant so much to him.

 David Rakia Plaza

What really happened at the 1947 UN Palestine partition vote

A note about my father’s account of the night of the UN vote for Partition, November 29, 1947

This Week in History: The UN Partition Plan announced

Remembering the life of Irgun member and activist Shulamit Dissentshik

 EARLY ZIONIST: Shulamit Dralitz Pashtizky Dissentshik.

Avi Nesher’s ‘Image of Victory’ is a triumph of cinema - review

Image of Victory is not so much a political movie as an existential statement about the price paid, quite literally, for the image of the title.

 A SCENE FROM Avi Nesher’s ‘Image of Victory.’

Happy 4th of July: Israel to commemorate War of Independence moment

As well as American Independence Day, July 4 signifies the 1976 Entebbe rescue operation.

Israeli flags and wreaths are seen on the remains of armored military vehicles and cars, part of the armored convoy ruins at Sha'ar Hagai that were destroyed during Israel's War of Independence in 1948, near Shoresh, outside Jerusalem, on April 10, 2013.

July 4th: America's 245th birthday, and what it meant for US Jews

The Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution had significant meaning for the Jewish communities of the 13 Colonies, due to the importance of religious freedom.

The Battle of Long Island in the US Revolutionary War.