David Ben-Gurion

Capturing a nation: Werner Braun’s photographic journey

Experience Israel’s history through Werner Braun’s lens at the Between Water and Sky exhibition at MUZA, Ramat Aviv.

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

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir at David Ben-Gurion's grave in Sde Boker.

'Courageous leadership required': Zamir seems to jab gov't at Ben-Gurion remembrance event


Israel’s missing constitution creates a half-democracy - opinion

Israel's brittle democracy is vulnerable to attacks from within because of its lack of a constitution and other critical elements.

 ATTORNEY-GENERAL Gali Baharav-Miara attends a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee in April. Israeli democracy is actually shockingly half-baked, the writer argues.

From mockery to legacy: Netanyahu, Trump, and the battle for Israel’s future - opinion

With elections coming up, the real question isn’t just who will run – it’s what the campaign will be about.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu walks near his office in the Knesset last month. The next stage is elections, but the real question isn’t just who will run; it’s what the campaign will be about, says the writer.

Independence Day 2025: A 'conversation' with great figures of Israeli, Zionist history - opinion

My questions, their words – genuine quotes spanning 130 years of vision and anticipation.

 AN AI-GENERATE image of a theoretical Zoom chat with some of the visionaries who helped create modern-day Israel.

Why Israelis should be eating ice cream for breakfast this Independence Day – opinion

Independence Day 2025 means we should celebrate Israel’s rebirth while honoring its ongoing struggles.

 The Israeli flag.

Rare handwritten diary entry by David Ben-Gurion from Israel's founding day revealed

The Ben-Gurion Institute hopes that by next Independence Day, the original diary notebook will also be located and made public.

 An excerpt of David Ben-Gurion's diary.

Seculars, national-religious Zionists, moderate Right could break up Netanyahu coalition - opinion

In an upcoming election, Bennett should run separately, representing the Zionist religious and moderate Right, but Lapid is an exhausted figure who failed miserably in the 2022 election.

 THEN-PRIME minister Naftali Bennett and then-foreign minister Yair Lapid hold a news conference in the Knesset, 2022.

Historic meeting: Israeli leaders receive newly republished writings of David Ben-Gurion

For the first time in decades, the writings of Israel’s founding father, David Ben-Gurion, have been republished in a new edition and presented to the country’s current and former leaders.

 President Isaac Herzog reading the newly republished books of Israel's first Prime Minister

Eyal Zamir likely to lead IDF into a new era: 'Small and smart' is over

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Zamir’s two civilian years in the Defense Ministry will also be useful in terms of his task’s most prickly dimension – personnel. 

 OUTGOING IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi (left) and his successor, Eyal Zamir, attend a ceremony in 2019.

On This Day: David Ben-Gurion won Israel's first election

The elections were not for the Knesset, which did not exist yet, but for the Constituent Assembly, a body tasked with formulating a constitution for the emerging state.

 Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.

Remembering Clinton Bailey, Ben-Gurion interviewer and Bedouin expert

Buffalo-born Dr. Bailey's interview with David Ben-Gurion was the basis of a major film, and he was also the creator of an archive of Bedouin life at the National Library of Israel.

 Clinton Bailey at his Jerusalem home.