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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks from the Israeli coast about the locating of the 1948 vessel Altalena, August 24, 2026. (GPO screenshot)
August 24, 2026, 10:21 pm
PM hails finding of Irgun arms ship Altalena, denounces Ben-Gurion for attacking it in 1948
Netanyahu uses incident to illustrate dangers of civil war while denigrating his political opponents; Ben Gvir likens himself to Irgun leader Begin at separate press event
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
The British Museum. (Wikimedia Commons/Eric Pouhier CC BY-SA)
February 16, 2026, 5:08 pm
British Museum removes some references to ‘Palestine’ after accuracy complaints
UK Lawyers for Israel prompts change, arguing applying name to periods when no such entity existed risks ‘obscuring the history of Israel and the Jewish people’
By ToI Staff
A crowd gathers at the Tel Aviv ceremony commemorating 30 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, November 1, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)
November 4, 2025, 5:21 pm
Yitzhak Rabin was killed 30 years ago this week. Has the Jewish world forgotten?
A new play, a book of poetry and numerous events seek to remind Jews in Israel and abroad how the death of a prime minister, killed while championing peace, is relevant today
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Participants on a Green Horizons hike in Israel, in an undated photo. (Courtesy of Green Horizons)
October 4, 2025, 11:49 am
With Israeli youth at a crossroads after Oct. 7, some turn to hiking to help find their path
As Israel reels from unprecedented trauma, young people are finding strength and meaning on the country’s trails where recent horrors are put in perspective within the history of the Land
By Tania Shalom Michaelian
Boris Gorbis has amassed what may be the world’s largest collection of mid-century Zionist souvenirs. (Asaf Elia-Shalev/JTA)
August 11, 2025, 2:07 am
Inside one man’s quixotic quest to preserve 200,000 Israeli tchotchkes
Boris Gorbis spent a lifetime scouring garage sales, thrift shops and eBay for discarded souvenirs from the Jewish state’s early days. Now, he’s determined to secure their future
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
A group of Jews stands on a balcony overlooking the Moroccan Quarter and the Western Wall, with the Dome of the Rock in the distance behind it. Circa 1920–1933. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division)
August 2, 2025, 10:27 am
Western Wall, 1929: A Tisha B’av protest is ground zero of the Arab-Israeli conflict
In an excerpt from her new book, ‘Ghosts of a Holy War,’ author and journalist Yardena Schwartz details a pivotal moment in Israel’s pre-state history and its haunting reverberations today
By Yardena Schwartz
Irina Starshenbaum as Shoshana and Douglas Booth as Tom Wilkin in 'Shoshana' by director Michael Winterbottom. (Courtesy)
July 25, 2025, 5:11 pm
Ideals and hearts break in this real-life Romeo and Juliet story set in Mandate Palestine
In US theaters today, ‘Shoshana’ portrays true romance between a Haganah member and the British officer tasked with arresting rebels like her, in a prescient tale of political complexities
By Rich Tenorio
A still of an animation from 'Theodor Herzl - The Man Behind Israel.' (Courtesy)
July 18, 2025, 4:10 pm
What would Herzl say about Israel today? A new documentary takes an educated guess
‘Theodor Herzl – The Man Behind Israel’ sees comic David Baddiel on the road, tracing the father of Zionism’s life. With voice acting by Stephan Fry, it premiered this month in the UK
By Lianne Kolirin
FILE: With the Dome of the Rock on the right, an Israeli man covered in a flag watches Israelis wave the national flag as they march in the Jerusalem Day parade in Jerusalem's Old City, June 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
May 1, 2025, 8:05 pm
Jewish state or state of the Jews? How Israel’s independence sparked an identity conflict
In his book ‘To Be a Jewish State,’ Oxford professor Yaacov Yadgar raises provocative questions in the context of the old-new arguments about national and religious identity
By Rich Tenorio
Members of the Bricha descendants group pose at the Bad Reichenhall army base, which was turned into a Jewish DP camp called Camp Tikwah. (Courtesy)
January 27, 2025, 9:30 pm
Descendants retrace Holocaust survivors’ treacherous, covert journey to pre-state Israel
Children of Jews who secretly traveled to the Jewish homeland with the ‘Bricha’ movement, some of whom were born along the way, revisit the long route and uncover buried histories
By Bernard Dichek
Prof. Derek Penslar, right, and Prof. Magda Teter, Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies and professor of history at Fordham University speak during a panel at Harvard Yard, December 10, 2024. (Courtesy)
January 15, 2025, 4:57 am
Harvard antisemitism task force co-chair talks about post-Oct. 7 ‘petrified anger’
Prof. Derek Penslar recently spoke at the Divinity School about his book ‘Zionism: An Emotional State,’ and the passions motivating Zionists and anti-Zionists, now and in the past
By Rich Tenorio
An illustration showing the boundaries of the biblical kingdoms of Israel and Judah in 928 BC, published by the Israel Arabic account on X on January 6, 2025. (Israel Arabic via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 8, 2025, 7:16 pm
‘Violation of international norms’: Biblical map of Israel sparks outrage from Jordan
Post from Israel Arabic account on X showing the borders of ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah denounced by Jordan, UAE for undermining Palestinian right to an independent state
By ToI Staff
Left: Conservative Rabbi Shalom Tzvi (Harry) Davidowitz (public domain); right: From right to left, Rabbi Mauricio Balter, executive director of Masorti Olami, Dr. Yizhar Hess, Rabbi Ashira Konigsberg, Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal, CEO of the Rabbinical Assembly and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, look up at the street sign named for Shalom Tzvi (Harry) Davidowitz, Herzliya, December 11, 2024. (Herzliya Municipality)
December 15, 2024, 6:06 am
1st street in Israel named for Masorti rabbi who influenced Declaration of Independence
In Herzliya, the Conservative Movement celebrates the commemoration of US cleric Shalom Tzvi Davidowitz, who is likely responsible for adding God into the historic 1948 statement
By Mati Wagner
A pillbox on Hebron Road in Jerusalem. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
September 14, 2024, 7:27 am
See the British Mandate era pillboxes that dot Israel, evoking its checkered past
The cement guard posts, so-called because of their cylindrical shape, represent an intriguing and often beautiful piece of pre-state Israeli history
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
A view of Jerusalem's Jaffa Road in 2024. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
July 27, 2024, 8:37 am
Explore the rich architectural history of Jerusalem’s Jaffa Road – while it lasts
As demolitions and skyscrapers forever alter the landscape around the capital’s first paved street outside the Old City, the time to explore its hidden treasures is running out
By Aviva Bar-Am
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