World war i

The West Bank is the historic heartland of the Jewish people - opinion

Jewish history and international legal instruments underpin Israel’s claim to Judea and Samaria, while past withdrawals raise questions about territorial concessions.

Jewish visitors walk near the separation barrier at Rachel’s Tomb, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, ahead of the annual Hilula commemorating the death of the biblical matriarch Rachel, October 20, 2026.
Signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministers of Culture of Greece and Bulgaria, Lina Mendoni and Evtim Miloshev, September 30, 2026.

Bones of medieval tsar, 48 religious relics to be exchanged under new Greece-Bulgaria heritage MoU

WEIMAR GERMANY: DEATH OF A DEMOCRACY by Victor Sebestyen

'Death of a Democracy': Exploring the rise and fall of Weimar Germany - review

 A demonstrator holds a picture of jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan during a rally in Diyarbakir, Turkey, February 27, 2025.

PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan’s anti-Israel rhetoric threatens Kurdish-Jewish relations - opinion


Grapevine October 30, 2022: A mega performing arts campus

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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. 

 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.

 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.

 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.

On This Day: World War I ends, Unknown Soldiers are buried

World War I ended on November 11, 1918, at 11 a.m.

WORLD WAR I trench warfare: ‘The way to reach God is through spiritual warfare, and all we can hope for is to catch a glimpse of His existence.’