On This Day: Yasser Arafat, PNC, announce Palestinian Declaration of Independence in Algiers
November 15 is also the birthday of Arafat's successor as PA leader, Mahmoud Abbas, who was born in Safed during the British Mandate in 1935.
History
Hitler claimed Jesus was German and royals were ‘Jews’ in a forgotten interview - study
Remains of Jewish chocolate factory destroyed in WWII found in Warsaw
Napoleon brooch captured at Waterloo leads Sotheby's Geneva auction
Germany plans 9 Nov nationwide commemorations for republic, Kristallnacht & Berlin Wall fall
Federal president Steinmeier will deliver a keynote speech on current dangers to democracy on 9 November, reflecting on the date's historical significance.
On this day: 87 years since Kristallnacht, the catalyst of the Holocaust
During the Nazi state-sanctioned pogrom, 91 Jews were murdered, and more than 1,400 synagogues across Germany and Austria were torched.
'Zaidy's Band': Revealing Canada’s contribution to World War II - review
Aron Heller's new book brings into the public arena the little-publicized history of the contribution in World War II of the Canadian Armed Forces, particularly its Jews.
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.
Revisiting JPost's coverage of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, 30 years later
The following is the full text of the article published on the front page of The Jerusalem Post on the morning of November 5, 1995, following the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
On This Day: Israeli former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated 30 years ago
Rabin was shot by far-Right Jew Yigal Amir following the prime minister's agreement to cede Israeli territory to the Palestinian Liberation Organization in an attempt to achieve peace.
'Moshe Dayan': Shedding analytical light on an Israeli war hero - review
Moshe Dayan: The Making of a Strategist is an outstanding book on multiple levels, offering valuable historical assessments and useful derivative opportunities to learn from Israel’s past.
'The Writers' Castle': Nazis at Nuremberg, impossible to defend - review
Uwe Neumahr provides an engaging account of the experiences (and sexual liaisons) of more than a dozen reporters in Nuremberg, their varied responses to the trial.
Messages in bottles from WWI Aussie soldiers wash up on Western Australia beach after 107 years
"The bottle is in excellent condition, there is no fading or attachment of sea organisms.".
On This Day: Israel, Jordan sign 1994 peace treaty, ending forty-six years of war
Following Egypt in 1979, Jordan was the second Arab country in the Middle East to sign a peace treaty with Israel.
