David Ben-Gurion

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

Israel’s recognition this week of Somaliland – a self-declared country in northeast Africa – is part of a time-honored legacy with its fair share of foresight and risk.

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.
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 first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion

Drafts of Ben-Gurion's 'Revolution of the Spirit' speech unveiled in honor of first PM's death


Unelected ‘leaders’ can’t represent American Jewry

Among the current leaders of prominent American Jewish or Zionist nonprofit organizations, there are 10 who have held the same position for 30 or more years.

‘WHAT ARE the effects, in Israel, in the US, and the rest of the world, of the perceived opinions of American Jewry?’

Simon Rawidowicz vs. Ben-Gurion on the question of ‘Israel’

While Ben-Gurion’s belief that the Diaspora would disappear is undermined by existence of millions of Jews in countries outside Israel, Rawidowicz’s argument has suffered over the past six decades.

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

Keep Dreaming: The view from the balcony

Inspiration from our first prime minister as we head off – yet again – to choose our next.

PRIME MINISTER David Ben-Gurion (left) and IDF Southern Command head Ariel Sharon survey the Bar Lev defense line in the Sinai Peninsula.

Jerusalem affairs: Kaf-Tet b’November

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly approved the partition plan for Mandatory Palestine. People danced in the streets of Jerusalem and across the country.

Knesset exhibit: David Ben-Gurion 1954

Rebirth through aliyah

Aliyah Day (November 5) triggers personal reflections on the blessings of living in Israel

New immigrants from France disembark at Ben-Gurion Airport last year

A South Dakota Jew became a powerhouse of the Zionist movement

Book review: When unremarkable is remarkable

US NAVY F/A-18E Super Hornets conduct a fly-by of South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore in 2006

Isaac Herzog: Modern Jewish challenges are safety, freedom, connection

For the past 90 years, The Jewish Agency has advocated for the security, freedom and connectivity of world Jewry.

JEWISH AGENCY CHAIRMAN Isaac Herzog stands with a delegation of representatives from his organization at March of the Living this year

Book review: In need of daring leaders

Ross and Makovsky use their insider view of negotiations to argue for taking risks for peace.

DENNIS ROSS, flanked by Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak, meet during peace process negotiations in 2000.

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