World war i

'Post' writer rediscovers grave of fallen British World War I hero in Jerusalem

HISTORICAL AFFAIRS: Private Sam Greyman's journey took him from Russia to Leeds to Jerusalem.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
THE GRAVE of Pvt. Sam Greyman in the British military cemetery in Jerusalem. Pvt. Greyman was shot by a Turkish sniper as he tried to protect the British camp near Umm esh Shert Ford on September 8, 1918, at 27 years old.
Members of the Australian Lighthorse Association watch over an Anzac Day dawn service at Bogan Gate in western New South Wales. Members of the Australian Lighthorse Association watch over an Anzac Day dawn service in the western New South Wales town of Bogan Gate, located 400 km (249 miles) west of

Letters from the dead: Letter written by WWI soldiers found in bottle off Australian coast

The letter penciled in 1916 finally reached the families of Malcolm Neville, 27, and William Harley, 37, decades after their death.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
US President Donald Trump in the Oval office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, September 30, 2025

How US President Donald Trump is boxing Israel, Hamas into a Gaza deal - analysis

To get to “yes” on both sides, Trump reached into his toolbox of his concept of dealmaking - as well as his own doctrine about big ideas and peace in the Middle East.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Divers discover World War I cruiser HMS Nottingham in the North Sea.

Divers discover World War I cruiser HMS Nottingham in the North Sea

Undisturbed at a depth of 82 meters, the wreck of HMS Nottingham bore a tragic human toll - 38 crew members perished when the cruiser was torpedoed by the German submarine U-52 on August 19, 1916.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

On this day: 105th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration

105-years-ago, Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour wrote a letter that made history.

NOVEMBER 2, 2022ByNOA FEIGENBAUM
Lord Arthur James Balfour and the text of the Balfour Declaration

Grapevine October 30, 2022: A mega performing arts campus

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

OCTOBER 30, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
ROM LEFT: Arieh Budnik and Daniel Farcas, both from Chile and who have children at Reichman University, along with head of the Raphael Recanati International School Jonathan Davis at the institution’s Orientation Day

WWI antisemitism was a warm-up for the Nazis, Holocaust - review

The Impact of World War One on the Jewish People shines a spotlight on the rampant antisemitism in Eastern Europe, which helped the Nazis carry out their mass murder of millions of Jews.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022ByAARON LEIBEL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a reinterment ceremony for John Henry Patterson near Netanya in 2014. He was a British commander of the Jewish Legion during World War I, and his ashes were reburied in Israel.

Wreckage of torpedoed WWI US Navy ship found by divers

The ship was reportedly sunk by German forces during the First World War more than a hundred years ago.

AUGUST 22, 2022ByGADI ZAIG
USS Jacob Jones.

'Your rabbi was taken as a hostage': Accounts of Russian tactics in WWI

Hostage-taking and forced migration were just two methods used by Russian forces in Ukraine and Poland a century ago.

MAY 2, 2022ByZACK ROTHBART
Jewish burial near the Galician theater of war, 1915.

Understanding my great-uncle through his WWI diaries

With access to the thoughts of Dr. Isaak Aron Barasch – raw, uncensored – written by the light of a kerosene lamp in between bombardments, I have gotten to know him intimately.

MARCH 31, 2022BySHULA KOPF
Dr. Barasch before the war

The trials that Hadassah's female founder faced explored in new book

The story of Henrietta Szold, a heroine to humanism, Zionism and equality, is in many ways the story of modern Jewish history leading up to and in the wake of the First and Second world wars.

DECEMBER 22, 2021ByHADASSAH FAUR
POSTAGE STAMP commemorating 100th anniversary of Henrietta Szold.

On This Day: Ottomans surrender Jerusalem in World War I

The British would continue to hold onto the city until fully withdrawing from Mandatory Palestine in 1948. 

DECEMBER 9, 2021ByAARON REICH
The surrender of Jerusalem, December 9, 1917.

Remembering the Maccabees who died fighting for Germany in WWI - opinion

For Martin Buber, the Jewish soldier in the kaiser’s army was a modern Maccabee.

DECEMBER 5, 2021ByELI KAVON
A MONUMENT dedicated to the Jews who died in Verdun, France, in one of the deadliest battles during World War I.

Serbia restores warship that fired first shots of World War I

The SMS Bodrog was one of two Austro-Hungarian gunboats that fired their canons at Belgrade on July 28, 1914, beginning World War I.

NOVEMBER 12, 2021ByREUTERS
A view of the fully restored river monitor Sava, also known as SMS Bodrog, an Austro-Hungarian warship which fired the first shots during World War I, in Belgrade, Serbia.