With a fast-moving plot, multiple characters, and frequent scene changes, staging this play is a challenge, particularly in ...

it carries an extremely important lesson for Israel’s two northern neighbors, Lebanon and Syria, which I’ll get to posthaste. What did Begin do? He went on the radio and ordered his Irgun ...

A new premier in France and soon in Canada, a new coalition in Austria, new presidents in Georgia and Moldova despite ...

We added a reference to extermination camps in relation to The Holocaust, changed an incorrect reference to Irgun ‘rising up ... the History of Zionism and Israel (Pluto Press, 1992): There ...

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

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

Both the Haganah and the Irgun Zvai Leumi organized underground ... would have thought if they knew what he was doing. But Israel’s desperate plight tugged at his conscience, so he disregarded ...

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

The foundation of Israel saw many make Aliyah while others left for London ... also known as the Stern gang and Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, another Zionist paramilitary organisation, received ...

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 ...