David Ben-Gurion

From gender roles to religious authority, American-trained leaders transformed key debates in Israeli Judaism.

The debate over Israel, Hamas, and sexual violence raises larger questions about media standards, evidence, and political bias.

National security depends not only on victories in Bint Jbail or Rafah, but also on the battlefields of consciousness in Washington, Berlin, and Paris.

On May 14, 1948, at 6:11 p.m. in Tel Aviv, prime minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the establishment of the modern State of Israel, and the trajectory of the Jewish people changed irrecoverably

It has been a year of sirens and safe rooms, of long stints of reserve duty, of families stretched to the breaking point. A year of loss, strain, and uncertainty.

Ben-Gurion recognized early on what became a well-known reality in the following decades: front lines that reach population centers, and the home front becoming a critical component of the war.

The very founder of the State of Israel understood what we are painfully relearning today through war and bloodshed: the Litani River is the only defensible northern border for the Jewish state.

Experience Israel’s history through Werner Braun’s lens at the Between Water and Sky exhibition at MUZA, Ramat Aviv.

Israel’s recognition this week of Somaliland – a self-declared country in northeast Africa – is part of a time-honored legacy with its fair share of foresight and risk.

Israel's defense minister does not have the skills that his job demands. The kind of strategizing that Ben-Gurion, Eshkol, and Arens did in their jobs is beyond Katz’s abilities