David Ben-Gurion
PM Benjamin Netanyahu has an insurance policy - it's called Israel's opposition – opinion
Whoever succeeds the current prime minister will need to preserve what he helped build, repair what he broke, and govern with a broad understanding of local and global politics
Israeli rhetoric on Turkey is increasingly shaping Ankara's view of tensions over Syria - analysis
From Washington to Vance: The risks of America's Middle East entanglements - opinion
How Ze'ev Jabotinsky shaped Israel's Right and liberal democracy - opinion
Voting rights and PACs: Solutions for the haredi draft evasion problem - opinion
Our soldiers are exhausted. Over half of our reserve soldiers have logged hundreds of days of military duty. We can’t continue to ask them to shoulder the burden alone.
Jerusalem highlights: June 12-18
What's new to do in Israel's capital?
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.
'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.
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.
Israel’s legitimacy is under attack in the free world, must be defended - opinion
National security depends not only on victories in Bint Jbail or Rafah, but also on the battlefields of consciousness in Washington, Berlin, and Paris.
Here’s why May 14 is a date that matters – opinion
On May 14, 1948, at 6:11 p.m. in Tel Aviv, prime minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the establishment of the modern State of Israel, and the trajectory of the Jewish people changed irrecoverably
Israel at 78: Unbowed, strong, and determined as it swings between a miracle and a mess - comment
It has been a year of sirens and safe rooms, of long stints of reserve duty, of families stretched to the breaking point. A year of loss, strain, and uncertainty.
Newly published documents belonging to Israel's first prime minister reveal eerily relevant message
Ben-Gurion recognized early on what became a well-known reality in the following decades: front lines that reach population centers, and the home front becoming a critical component of the war.
Time to implement Ben-Gurion’s vision: Litani River is Israel's natural northern border - opinion
The very founder of the State of Israel understood what we are painfully relearning today through war and bloodshed: the Litani River is the only defensible northern border for the Jewish state.
