Israel's Declaration of Independance

Israel 2048: New report by Henry Jackson Society looks at possible future strategy for Israel

This is an important new contribution to the discussion about what comes next for Israel and the Middle East, rooting Israel’s strategy in Israel’s history and in the West.

 An illustrative image of a man holding an Israeli flag.
Robert Capa

Jewish war photographer Robert Capa's life and work honored in Budapest

 An excerpt of David Ben-Gurion's diary.

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

 THE WRITER (center, wearing a cap) attends a Nifgashim gathering in Tel Aviv. Despite all the hardships and losses, the people of Israel reveal their courage, the writer asserts.

76 years of hope: Reflecting on Israel's journey from pioneers to modern unity - opinion


If the Declaration of Independence falls, Israeli unity will fall too - opinion

This last bastion of consensus is under attack. If it succeeds, there will no longer be any text around which the State of Israel and Israeli society can unite.

 THE ORIGINAL scroll of the Declaration of Independence: The words are not a hastily drafted text; they are constitutive words, the writer argues.

Gallant defends Declaration of Independence as first chapter of unwritten constitution

The Declaration has seen renewed significance in recent months, used as a rallying banner by anti-judicial reform factions in opposition to the legal overhaul.

 Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

Does the Declaration of Independence allow court to strike basic laws?

Reformists and coalition politicians will need to shore up their arguments as to why the court doesn't have the right to engage in a review of basic laws.

 FIRST PRIME MINISTER David Ben-Gurion reads Israel’s Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv, on May 14, 1948

Israeli Declaration of Independence displayed on WZO building

The decision of promoting the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the World Zionist Congress; and was promoted by the liberal factions of the Zionist Movement.

The World Zionist Organization building in Tel Aviv, overlooking Leonardo da Vinci Street, displayes the Declaration of Independence September 12, 2023

Israel's government attorney questions 'hasty' Declaration of Independence

Justice Yitzhak Amit said that democracy doesn’t usually die all at once, “democracy dies in small steps.”

 A colorized image of David Ben-Gurion reading Israel’s Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948.

Israel's Declaration of Independence is a worthy document, not a billboard - opinion

On Israel’s Declaration of Independence

A copy of the Declaration of Independence hangs from the Brain Research Building on the Bar-Ilan University campus.