World war i

Divers find wreck of Coast Guard ship torpedoed by Germans, US’ largest naval loss of World War I

Tampa was one of six USGC cutters assigned to escort convoys during World War I, losing only two ships out of 18 convoys. She earned a special commendation for exemplary service. 

Wreckage of the US Coast Guard Cutter Tampa found by British diving team Gasperados off the coast of England, May 4, 2026.
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Voices Israel anthology 2025: Celebrating English poetry shaped by war, love, and memory

Buildings lie in ruins amidst the rubble in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 8, 2025.

IDF confirms Gaza Commonwealth war cemetery damaged in operation to destroy Hamas terror tunnels

THE GRAVE of Pvt. Sam Greyman in the British military cemetery in Jerusalem. Pvt. Greyman was shot by a Turkish sniper as he tried to protect the British camp near Umm esh Shert Ford on September 8, 1918, at 27 years old.

'Post' writer rediscovers grave of fallen British World War I hero in Jerusalem


1918: Returning Torah scrolls to Tel Aviv, Jaffa after WWI

The return of the Jews to their homes and religious sanctuaries after the exile forced upon them by the Turkish governor during World War I.

 Sephardi chief Rabbi Ben-Zion Uziel delivers blessings at the cornerstone ceremony  for the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot with Chaim Weizmann (seated) on June 3, 1946

Book talks Jewish woman's WWI espionage, author talks Hamas war

Shaw speaks and writes on the source of attacks against Israel and is an eloquent public diplomacy advocate for Israel.

 Sarah Aaronsohn

UK's Diane Abbott spreads fake news on X about pro-Palestinian protests, shames Braverman

Diane Abbott used a 2016 photo to claim that counter-protesters, protesting against the pro-Palestinian marches on Armistice Day, were neo-Nazis.

 Labour Party's Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott reads her party's manifesto at its launch in Birmingham, Britain November 21, 2019

UK PM Sunak warns pro-Palestinian protests on Armistice Day 'provocative'

"They have already expressed that they have no intention to disrupt remembrance events," police said.

 Demonstrators protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in London, Britain, October 28, 2023

Fulfilling a century-old promise: A journey to San Vigilio in a soldier's memory

San Vigilio is as beautiful as my great-uncle described in his diary when he served as a doctor in the Austro-Hungarian army on the Italian front.

 A view of San Vigilio village that Dr. Isaac Barasch loved so much

Good for more than a single reading

Helen Joyce uses her real-life family histories as the basis of her semi-history, semi-novel that traces the traumatic impact of 20th-century politics on a Jewish family.

 German troops entering Warsaw after surrender of city in 1939.

A Jewish producer sees his family history in an Oscar-nominated Netflix film

Daniel Dreifuss' film features the history of his family escaping the Nazis, after serving Germany in World War 1, and moving to Israel.

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Family seeks recognition for ancestor forcibly recruited to Ottoman army, died in service

The Turkish army forced Moshe Efroni, one of the pioneers of the first aliyah, to enlist during the First World War, else he be deported with his family back to Russia.

 The surrender of Jerusalem, December 9, 1917.

Elderly French man inserts WWI-era bomb up rectum, causes evacuation - report

Strange objects being inserted into one's body for sexual purposes isn't anything doctors aren't used to, but an artillery shell is nonetheless something nobody saw coming

 World War I artillery shells (Illustrative).

Nazi-looted sheet music returned to modern heirs

Beethoven gave the sheet music to his secretary before it found its way to the wealthy Czechoslovakian Petschek family.

 Beethoven’s handwritten manuscript for the fourth movement of his String Quartet in B-flat Major