Israel history

Will we forever live by the sword? - opinion

A deeper look at the heritage and history of the Jewish people teaches us that this is not merely a random sequence of disasters, persecutions, and wars.

Soldiers praying at the Kotel in 2013.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., U.S. Treasury Secretary during World War II, visits Jerusalem in 1951

75 years of investing in Israel: The Man Behind the Concept

The ruins of the King David Hotel bombing.

The blast that still echoes: The King David Hotel bombing, 80 years on

Moshe Novomeysky established a community beside the Dead Sea in 1934, today an outdoor museum pays tribute to the tough, heat-resistant laborers and their families who lived there. PremiumPremium

Mapping Israel’s path to independence: 12 sites that tell Israel's real story


Flight to freedom

The riveting stories of Shlomo Hillel, Operation Babylon and Atlit.

Shlomo Hillel at home in Jerusalem

Prehistoric Ashdodites used chopping tools to eat bone marrow – study

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the ancient humans living in the area of modern Ashdod used a specific type of stone tools to break animal bones and extract the bone marrow.

A chopping tool from prehistoric site Revadim.

King David-era fort found in Israel's Golan Heights

The archaeologists think that the fort was built by the kingdom of Geshur, an ally of King David.

Ofri Eitan of the Kfar Hanasi pre-military Academi next to the engraved stone

Why Washington may turn away from Israel

In today’s academic and politically progressive world, the foundation for the bipartisan consensus of support for the US-Israel relationship is gradually being eroded.

Prof. Rashid Khalidi

Mekor Haim: The one-street enclave tucked away in Jerusalem

The first settlers came a year after the 1923 land lottery.

View of Mekor Haim. 10/2/2004, David Keter.

Hebrew U receives world's largest collection of Holy Land postcards

David Pearlman did extensive research on them and provided HU researchers with valuable annotations and a complete catalog of his 130,000 postcard collection. "It has truly been a labor of love."

Postcard from world’s largest collection of Holy Land postcards at Hebrew University

Important dates to know on Israel-Bahrain relations

In 2019 a delegation from Israel’s Foreign Ministry was invited to participate in a conference on entrepreneurship in Manama.

Kingdom of Bahrain flag

Hundreds of 1,100-year-old solid gold coins found in central Israel

"With a sum [of cash] like this, a person could buy a fancy house in one of the best neighborhoods in Fustat, the rich capital of Egypt at the time."

Israeli archaeologist Shahar Krispin cleans gold coins, said by the Israel Antiquities Authority to date to the Abbasid dynasty, after its discovery at an archaeological site in central Israel

Remembering the roots of Israel's National Library

The library was perhaps the one place in Jerusalem where one could find books on mathematics, science, secular philosophy, modern educational methods and other subjects.

THE CONSTRUCTION site of the new National Library in Jerusalem in August, 2020.

Ya’acov Heruti, one of Israel’s first anonymous soldiers

The ‘Magazine’ gets the lowdown on the former LEHI operative, today 93, who almost assassinated the British foreign secretary in 1948

Ya'acov Heruti