Haganah

From lost ship to new battleground: Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir using Altalena in election spat - analysis

Ben-Gvir publicized the find without informing Netanyahu or Defense Minister Israel Katz, surprising both men, a detail that quickly fed speculation about tensions between the coalition partners.

The search for the remains of the Altalena, published August 24, 2026.
Simcha Applebaum serving as deputy commander within the 188th Brigade.

Holocaust survivor, Yom Kippur War hero Colonel Simcha Applebaum dies at 99

Maj. Gen. (ret.) Dan Tolkowsky

Israeli Air Force hero Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Dan Tolkowsky passes away at 104

Alexander Smukler presents a samizdat copy of Exodus in Russian to author Leon Uris in Moscow, November 1989.

Looking at the enduring inspiration of Leon Uris’s ‘Exodus’ - opinion


Dr. Ruth: Those who serve in IDF will have good sex for their entire lives

She claimed to have been quite talented and "an expert at throwing hand grenades" during her service in the Haganah.

DR. RUTH Westheimer talks to an admirer in Jerusalem.

In memory of the El Al Captain who flew Adolf Eichmann to justice

As a pilot in the 1948 War of Independence, Wedeles also flew a battered Piper Cub into enemy fire, delivering arms to the notorious Nebi Samwil convoy.

Adolf Eichmann sits during his trial in Jerusalem, 1961.

Pre-Mossad: How one man used espionage to bring Poland's Jews to Israel

‘Bricha’ boots on the Polish ground.

PRISONERS LABOR at the site of Belomorkanal, the man-made channel connecting the White Sea and Baltic Sea that was constructed by Soviet Gulag inmates. Tzvi Netzer served a full year in the infamous Siberian Gulag.

Touching ceremony recalls 23 missing Hagana fighters

In a moving ceremony at the President’s Residence, Mordechai Naor and Boaz Dekel presented their new book, The Unknown Mission, to President Reuven Rivlin.

President Reuven Rivlin in Canada visiting Niagara Falls

Newly-discovered 1945 letter reveals how Tel Aviv survived a British siege

An anonymous letter, recently discovered in the National Library archives, offers a glimpse into a time of crisis when the residents of Tel Aviv were prisoners in their own homes.

British soldiers enforcing a curfew in Tel Aviv during the 1940s (Haim Fein at the Emanuel Harussi Photograph Collection)

A Hagana fighter's recollections of the 'Night of the Bridges'

90-year-old Chanan Rapaport recalls his days as a fighter in the pre-state era.

Chanan Rapaport in his Haganah days (left) and today (right).

Building a state in the shadow of the Holocaust

“This time, I was not fighting for my personal survival. I was fighting for the survival of the Jewish nation, for the future of the Jewish nation.”

Left: NOAH KLIEGER shows his Auschwitz number tattoo. Right: URI AVNERY in his army uniform from the War of Independence in 1948

Reinforcing the Zionist narrative through a Passover Haggada

“We produced this as a family. Passover is a family holiday, and the Jewish people happen to be one big family. That’s why we chose to do it this way – something from our family to yours."

Eight gifts for Passover 2018

Si le Goush m’était conté

Il y a 70 ans, 35 combattants tombaient au champ d’honneur, dans un effort désespéré pour sauver le Goush Etsion

Les tombes des 35 au mont Herzl

Hugo Marom, one of IAF’s founders, dies at 88

Marom flew one of the last three Spitfires supplied by the Czechs to Israel and became one of the founders of the IAF.

Pilot in Israel Air Force gets ready for take off