Israel history

Was Netanyahu chosen by God, or judged too harshly by man? - opinion

There was a young man who was chosen. He did not choose himself. In fact, he had no plans to enter politics and no ambition to become prime minister. Yet God often chooses people who never expect it.

Israeli cabinet minister and former military chief Gadi Eisenkot is consoled by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he attends the funeral of his son Gal Meir Eisenkot, 25, an Israeli solider, who was killed in northern Gaza during the ground operation by Israel's military in Gaza.
A SIGN points to Kibbutz Kissufim, and a yellow car is a reminder of the struggle to return the hostages.

Editor's Notes: Kibbutzim are showing Israelis how to bridge the religious divide

Eilat Lieber, director and chief curator of the Tower of David Museum, stands in the site of the Kishle, which is currently being excavated.

Inside the dig that peeled back 2,000 years of Jerusalem history

 Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female prime minister, led through a small circle of senior advisers known as ‘Golda’s Kitchen’ from 1969 until 1974 – an exception in a political system where women’s authority has remained limited and largely isolated.

Visible everywhere, powerful nowhere: The paradox facing Israeli women in 2026 - analysis


Hebrew U receives world's largest collection of Holy Land postcards

David Pearlman did extensive research on them and provided HU researchers with valuable annotations and a complete catalog of his 130,000 postcard collection. "It has truly been a labor of love."

Postcard from world’s largest collection of Holy Land postcards at Hebrew University

Important dates to know on Israel-Bahrain relations

In 2019 a delegation from Israel’s Foreign Ministry was invited to participate in a conference on entrepreneurship in Manama.

Kingdom of Bahrain flag

Hundreds of 1,100-year-old solid gold coins found in central Israel

"With a sum [of cash] like this, a person could buy a fancy house in one of the best neighborhoods in Fustat, the rich capital of Egypt at the time."

Israeli archaeologist Shahar Krispin cleans gold coins, said by the Israel Antiquities Authority to date to the Abbasid dynasty, after its discovery at an archaeological site in central Israel

Remembering the roots of Israel's National Library

The library was perhaps the one place in Jerusalem where one could find books on mathematics, science, secular philosophy, modern educational methods and other subjects.

THE CONSTRUCTION site of the new National Library in Jerusalem in August, 2020.

Ya’acov Heruti, one of Israel’s first anonymous soldiers

The ‘Magazine’ gets the lowdown on the former LEHI operative, today 93, who almost assassinated the British foreign secretary in 1948

Ya'acov Heruti

Educators call for November to be named 'Israel History Month'

Five key events in Israeli history, including the passing of two UN resolutions, took place in November.

  Former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and former defense minister Shimon Peres on the stairwell leading into Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs in 1976.

Hebrew language, Jewish history and holidays under the microscope

Roots and Rituals provides a fascinating window into the origins of Hebrew words, practices and customs. The diversity of different topics makes it the type of book that one can read at any time.

THE AUTHOR dives deep into the meaning of biblical Hebrew words.

History: How it really was!

Israel’s most important elections

Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, lunches with Ezer Weizman and Menachem Begin at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel on December 11, 1967

Ancient wine press with Talmudic period mosaic floor discovered in Galilee

This is the only mosaic from the time of the Talmud that has been found in the ancient Jewish village of Korazim.

Winepress at Kurazim (Dekel Segev/Nature and Parks Authority)

The Time Tunnel

A new project traces history through the eyes of those who lived it.

DR. BOAZ LEV-TOV introduces the Tarasa project.