David Ben-Gurion

Jerusalem highlights: June 12-18

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

|ByHAGAY HACOHEN
Irvin Unger presents his new book on Arthur Szyk (see Monday).
Children of reservists in Or Akiva attend a week-long summer camp organized by HaOgen

The war exposed Israel’s broken politics, resilient society - opinion

The war showed the strength of Israeli society and the growing weakness of its political institutions.

|ByARI TATARKA
Rabbi Danny Tropper, founder of Gesher.

'Agents of Change': American Jews and the transformation of Israeli Judaism - review

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

|ByALAN ROSENBAUM
Nicholas Kristof at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Israel’s critics undermine real accountability with reckless accusations - opinion

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

|ByGIL TROY

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

Netanyahu government's 'reforms' are an attack on all Israelis - opinion

Israel would become a country in which the citizens literally have no rights unless the government allows it.

JANUARY 13, 2023ByDAN PERRY
JUSTICE MINISTER Yariv Levin arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem, this past Sunday.

Religion vs. state: Israel must pay attention to the Hanukkah story - opinion

A healthy tension between the spiritual leadership and the political one is essential not only for a functioning democracy, but for survival itself.

DECEMBER 30, 2022ByPINCHAS GOLDSCHMIDT
RABBI PINCHAS Goldschmidt: The sages teach that kings should not be anointed from among the priests – that is, there must be a separation of spiritual and political power.