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

Capturing a nation: Werner Braun’s photographic journey

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.

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

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

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


Middle Israel: Against a U.S.-Israel defense pact

Alliances should be sought as long as they enhance national power, and avoided once they replace it.

PRIME MINISTER David Ben-Gurion meets with US envoy to Israel James McDonald in 1948. The IDF had hardly been in Sinai a week when Ben-Gurion ordered a full retreat

Historic Krumbach Torah Ark to be auctioned off in NY City

The ark, made by American soldiers for Holocaust survivors, helped renew Jewish prayer after World War II.

Torah Ark

Book review: The forgotten prime minister

Sharett’s diary is a rare peek into halls of power, comical moments of a top statesman.

FORMER PRIME minister Moshe Sharett (right) and Israeli-Arab MK Amin-Salim Jarjora.

The last ones standing

For those who are fond of trivia and believe in coincidence, there’s vague point of interest in the fact that the first government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was dissolved in July 1999.

CROATIAN PRESIDENT Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic and President Reuven Rivlin inspect the IDF honor guard at a welcome ceremony in Jerusalem this week.

Netanyahu becomes Israel's longest-serving prime minister tomorrow

Ben-Gurion served 4,872 days, from the establishment of the state in May 1948 until early 1954, and again from November 1955 to June 1963.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu.

Ben-Gurion documentary coming soon to a theater near you

Simon Wiesenthal Center hopes to educate young Jews about “prophetic” figure and founder of Israel.

Richard Trank interviewing Ehud Barak

Ben-Gurion postcard from 1948 Independence Day up for sale

Jerusalem auction house selling missive signed by prime minister on May 15, 1948, declaring that the 'State of Israel was born.'

A postcard from David Ben Gurion on Independence Day 1948, in which he writes that the state of Israel was declared.

Benjamin Netanyahu, political wizard - analysis

There is a reason Netanyahu is in eyeshot of Ben-Gurion's longevity record.

Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference, February 28th, 2019

The lost Yemenite children and I

The word of abduction spread like wildfire throughout more than two hundred transit camps, including our camp, and reached my father, Baba.

Yemenite immigrants on a plane flying to Lod Airport from Aden on October 23, 1949

Israeli premiership’s finest hour: Levi Eshkol

Tragedy has seldom been more intense.

LEVI ESHKOL takes over the premiership from David Ben-Gurion in 1963