Haganah

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

Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Dan Tolkowsky will be laid to rest, with a full military ceremony, on Monday at 2:30 PM at the Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery in Tel Aviv.

Maj. Gen. (ret.) Dan Tolkowsky
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

 THE WAZE app came out in 2013 (hence, the older-model smartphone pictured)

This week in Jewish history: Haganah formed in Israel, Google acquires Waze

 Footage of the fire as seen from the train station in Tel Aviv.

Large fire breaks out near Tel Aviv's Haganah station


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

Irgun, Lehi, Hagana descendants protest Army Radio's move to Jerusalem

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman's decision to house Army Radio in the Museum of Underground Prisoners has sparked concerns from sons and daughters of the underground groups' fighters.

Hagana fighters the day after Israel declared a state 370

Escape from Cyprus: The story of ‘Hatikva'

As the passengers sang loudly, the Palestinian sawed the lock from a hatch cover in the floor of their cage.

Hatikvah crew members in Cyprus (from left) Hugh McDonald, Sam Gordon, Harold Katz, Joe Gilden and Murray Greenfield.