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Cedric Vloemans

May 22, 2025, 3:51 PM

The myth regarding the occupation of Palestine

Israeli and Palestinian flags next to each other. (Wikicommons, Public Domain. CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated)

The Situation These developments underscore the urgency of a sustainable resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For decades, the Middle East has been a powder keg whose fuse never seems to be extinguished. Time and again — you could almost set your...

May 15, 2025, 2:39 PM

Book review – Milhemet Mitzvah: Volume 1

In the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray's character becomes trapped in a time loop and is forced to relive the same day repeatedly. The notion of the conscription of yeshiva students into the Israeli army is similarly a...

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Apr 28, 2025, 6:01 PM

At the crossroads of joy and sorrow, there are words

Two new books – one of fallen soldiers' messages before before their death, the other of women's prayers – offer words for these fraught times

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Apr 25, 2025, 7:52 AM

What’s in a Name? From Meshuggeh to Mainstream

We are living in age when virtually everything has been politicized. Even names. President Trump demands American maps switch to the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico. On the micro-level, numerous people send emails with the...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Apr 21, 2025, 9:59 PM

The Holocaust and the Establishment of Israel

Megillat HaAtzmaut, Israel’s Declaration of Independence, was proclaimed on May 14, 1948 by David Ben Gurion. The document begins with the history of the Jewish people in Eretz Yisrael (The Land of Israel), our connection to the Land in the...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jan 17, 2025, 7:45 AM

Lebanon and Syria Also Need to Learn from Israel’s Altalena Affair

One of the most controversial events in Israeli history – and certainly the one with the most potential for civil war – was the Altalena Affair in June 1948, a month after Israel declared its national independence. For those...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Dec 27, 2024, 8:00 AM

From the State of Israel to the State of Judea

While we are celebrating Hanukkah today, a question arises: why isn’t the State if Israel called the “State of Judea”? Not only was the last successful Jewish war of independence led by Judah Maccabee, but the nation that earlier...

Dec 2, 2024, 10:53 PM

David Ben-Gurion takes us back to the future

David Ben-Gurion in the Negev desert. Photo courtesy of Americans for Ben-Gurion University (A4BGU).

What will allow for a “full recovery” from these atrocities, while providing hope and optimism for the future of Israel and the Jewish people? It may sound cliché to suggest that the solution involves stepping into a time machine,...

Oct 7, 2024, 12:43 AM

‘The front is not there or here, but inside each of us’

Prime Minister and Minister of Defense David Ben-Gurion with IDF Commander of the Jerusalem District Colonel Yossef Nevo and Jerusalem Mayor Mordechai Ish-Shalom at an army post on Jerusalem border, Musrara, West Jerusalem, beginning of August 1962. (PD David Harris via Wikimedia)

How well have Israelis handled the war over the past year? By the measures David Ben-Gurion set forth, very well indeed

Sep 3, 2024, 7:44 PM

Leadership Legacies: Netanyahu’s Governance Compared with Ben-Gurion’s Core Principles

In times when Israel seeks a competent leader to navigate unprecedented challenges, comparing the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu with that of David Ben-Gurion offers valuable insights. Since its inception in 1948, Israel has been shaped by leaders whose decisions...

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