On December 4, 1948, a letter was published in the New York Times signed by notable intellectuals like Albert Einstein, ...

There are manifest dangers in drawing historical lessons from popular culture, in this case an enormous bestseller from the ...

In 1977, before the Camp David talks, Begin and Sadat had a preliminary meeting at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel. On July 22, ...

He declared that “the Irgun has become the enemy of the Jewish people.” Ben-Gurion regarded Begin as his arch nemesis. A few weeks after Israel’s War of Independence started, Ben-Gurion was ...

Shlomo Ben-Yosef (1913-1938), along with Yehoshua “Shalom” Zurabin and Avraham Shein, were members of the Irgun best known ... commemorated by the State of Israel as a martyr and the first ...

In 1948, he was an 18-year-old student at the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland. Somehow, he caught wind of the fact that Zionist activists were looking for young men and women to help the Jewish state in unc ...

In doing so, he created the political right wing in Zionist and Israel politics ... members of the Irgun were kidnapped by Palmah cadres, subjected to violence. Many dozens were handed over ...

Clare historian, Tomás Mac Conmara explores the foundation of the Israeli state and its long history of conflict The oldest ...

Neither was the Irgun or the later Lechi groups operative yet ... of the policies required to assure the success of the Zionist enterprise in the Land of Israel. This territory is not a ‘land of the ...