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


Time for a New European Peace Conference?

Two-thousand years of European global domination ended at the outset of World War I. A century later, Europe has yet to come to terms with it.

Delegates at the 1815 Congress of Vienna

Roman Polanski takes on the Dreyfus Affair

Now 86 and still as sharp as ever, Polanski was born to a Jewish father who survived concentration camps and a partly Jewish mother murdered at Auschwitz.

Dreyfus, painted by Jean Baptiste Guth  for Vanity Fair, 1899

Ex-Australian PM, John Howard, honors soldiers of Battle of Beersheba

Victory at the Battle of Beersheba enabled the Allied forces to move forward and capture Jerusalem from the Ottomans just six weeks later.

90th anniversary of the WW1 Battle of Beersheba: Re-enactment of the Australian Light horse charge

Azerbaijan: A linchpin of European energy diversity and security

The ‘Contract of the Century’ brought many positive outcomes for Baku.

THE FLAME Towers in Baku are a symbol of the new and independent Azerbaijan.

Book review: The Chazon Ish and Israeli society

The life of Rabbi Avraham Yeshayah Karelitz, who emerged from World War I to have a profound impact on Israel.

The Chazon Ish: The Life and Ideals of Rabbi Avraham Yeshayah Karelitz

Archaeologists uncover UK war prison from World War II near Sheffield

The prisoners were treated poorly: fed out of dustbins, standing outside in mud for hours, and "squashed" into tents or barracks.

German POWs marching along Juno Beach landing area at Bernieres Sur Mer

How it really was: Eliyahu the prophet, in snow and sun

The story of Rabbi Jacob Sonderling and a special Shabbat during World War I.

A portrait of Rabbi Dr. Jacob Sonderling (1868-1964), who was called ‘my fighting rabbi’ by Theodor Herzl; he fought for Zionism and served as a chaplain to fight for Jewish lives

Book review: On the run

Rachel Barenbaum’s debut novel follows the lives of four Russian Jews in 1914, desperate to escape the war closing in around them.

A PHOTOGRAPH of Jewish girls in Samarkand, in what was then Russia sometime between 1909 and 1915.

Grapevine: Zionist hero Aaron Aaronsohn remembered

Aaronsohn is credited with the discovery of wild wheat, as well as running the influential espionage organization during World War I.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in Atlit at the 100th anniversary commemoration of the passing of Zionist hero Aaron Aaronsohn

Lessons from history: Untying an intractable knot

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) greets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Monroe Room of the State Department in Washington September 2, 2010.