David Ben-Gurion

Time to implement Ben-Gurion’s vision: Litani River is Israel's natural northern border - opinion

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.

|ByAVI ABELOW
An illustrative image of Louaize in southern Lebanon.
Werner Braun's 1964 picture of five nuns in the Valley of the Cross in Jerusalem is a symphony in monochrome.

Capturing a nation: Werner Braun’s photographic journey

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

|ByBARRY DAVIS
THE KIND OF of strategic alliance that Israel is nurturing in Somaliland already emerged last year, when Somaliland signed a deal with Ethiopia, leasing to its landlocked neighbor a 20-km. coastal strip for a naval base.

Middle Israel: Sleeping with Somaliland is good, waltzing with it is bad - opinion

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.

|ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
Defence Minister Israel Katz inspects a missile at the Tel Nof Air Force base in March.

Defense Minister Israel Katz is a strategic liability that Israel cannot afford - opinion

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

|ByAMOTZ ASA-EL

Aliyah isn't a sacrifice, but it still takes some getting used to - opinion

Aliyah may have been a sacrifice 30 years ago, but today it is no more difficult than moving to any other country.

APRIL 16, 2023ByURI PILICHOWSKI
NEW IMMIGRANTS from North America arrive at Ben Gurion Airport on a special flight on behalf of the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization, in 2019

The debt to the Jewish rebels against Rome - opinion

Brushing aside negative portrayals of the ancient rebels, the Zionists made an ideological connection to them because they had bequeathed an important legacy.

APRIL 13, 2023ByROBERT SILVERMAN
DAVID BEN-GURION showing guests around Sde Boker.

What do Pharaoh, Moses teach Israel about its leadership crisis?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: There was a time when leaders thought of things larger than themselves.

APRIL 8, 2023ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
DAVID BEN-GURION showing guests around Sde Boker.

Air conditioning system in PM Ben-Gurion's Sde Boker home restored

Teams of retired technicians came back for a special project: restoring a long-retired air conditioning unit in the former home of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion.

APRIL 3, 2023ByJOANIE MARGULIES
Tadiran air conditioner technicians Yehuda Amergi and Moshe Schwartz

Israel is neither halachic or Western, it is a unique democracy - opinion

In law, morality is necessary for mishpat tzedek (justice) to be done and if justice is done and seen, peace will result.

MARCH 29, 2023ByHANAN SHAI
IN 1980, justice Aharon Barak decided that Jewish law would be merely a source of inspiration to judges. In 2019, he disavowed his 1980 decision.

Zionists didn’t wait for the Messiah - opinion

To those who believed in waiting for the Messiah, they said we can return to Israel without a Messiah.

MARCH 5, 2023ByURI PILICHOWSKI
GOD’S PROVIDENCE is perceived in Israel’s success. Former prime minister David Ben-Gurion said, ‘In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles… Life is more than blind forces.’

How should Avraham Stern be remembered? - opinion

The once Zionist renegade is now part of the Israeli mainstream - but was he more terrorist or freedom fighter?

FEBRUARY 9, 2023ByMARK REGEV
OVER THE decades since his death, Avraham “Yair” Stern has increasingly edged into the Israeli consensus, says the writer.

On this day: First ever election to the Knesset held in 1949

David Ben-Gurion won the elections and became Israel's first prime minister and Chaim Weizmann became Israel's first president.

JANUARY 25, 2023ByNOA FEIGENBAUM
The Knesset building, home of Israel's legislature, in Jerusalem, on November 14, 2022 (Illustrative).

New AI app lets you talk to historical figures, including Hitler

The "Historical Figures" app allows you to have conversations with any of 20,000 prominent people from history (including some key Israeli figures).

JANUARY 22, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, WALLA!
Adolf Hitler (R) with Commander-in-Chief of the German Army Walther von Brauchitsch, Warsaw, October 1939

Letters to the Editor January 16, 2023: Leave their cocoons

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

JANUARY 16, 2023ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters