When Israel celebrates 71 years of restored Jewish national independence, it bows its head to the 23,741 Israelis who have been killed in action defending the national freedom of the Jewish people. While the price is high, the price of lacking Jewish national freedom was always incomparably higher.
The memory of the Shoah cries out to the present generation not to take its military and political abilities for granted – and to be willing to use those abilities against those who wish for the Jewish people to be destroyed.
Driven by a vision of becoming a nation like all others, Zionists believed that global Jew-hatred would end once we, the Jewish people, returned to our ancestral lands and reestablished our state. They were wrong.
Many American Jews may feel fondness for Israel but do not respect the people of Israel to determine what is good for Israel themselves. They discount the Israeli perspective and do not fully appreciate Israeli democracy.
Before the establishment of Israel, the destiny of millions of Jews was decided by the whims of Christian Europe and the Muslim world. What has changed dramatically is that today there is a powerful Jewish state.
One of 52 Jewish outposts of the"Homa UMigdal", the pre-state Yeshuv's strategy to overcome settlement restrictions by the British, Kibbutz Negba was where the advancing Egyptian Army was stopped.
Located near an ancient crusader fortress, the British used it to incarcerate Jews fleeing Nazi Europe and then refugees from the Holocaust. The Atlit Detention camp is an Israeli Heritage Site.
She was the Iron Lady of the Zionist Movement, whom all looked up to. Yet she put her faith in the men around her, leading to the hardest week of her life. Remembering Golda Meir on the 45th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War.
Beyond a nearly universal approval of Israel’s existence, Jews outside of Israel have to reconcile Israel’s political necessities and national interests with those of their home nation, very often putting them at odds.
The date (Tamar) has the same numerical value as the sun (Shemesh). Just as photosynthesis converts sunlight into fruit, the light of God (the Torah) can be transformed into the fruits of inspiration.
A week before the Israeli parliamentarians return to work, an architect's look at the Knesset structure, symbol of the reborn Jewish nation's sovereignty.
Despite many challenges, Israelis seem more content with their lives than most people in the world, including most Western countries. While the Jewish state cherishes its past, it is firmly focused on the future.
Unique copper built homes in Haifa and Safed are a silent testament to a little known event in the history of pre-state Israel and the effort by the Yishuv to save Jewish lives in Nazi Germany.
Ronald Lauder would be smart to learn from Israel's "Nation-State" law to strengthen Jewish identity among the fading American Diaspora instead of virtue signaling on the pages of the NY Times.
Opponents of Israel, including many of its Arab citizens, defiantly wave the PLO flag, yet have no idea what it actually symbolizes and that it has served many other Arab causes. The origins and history of a false flag.
With all the Jewish People have been through, you would expect now an unshakable moral commitment toward the Jewish state. Instead, Israel is held to a double standard by the world.
The “Nation-State” law corrects an existing constitutional distortion. Those who demand that the law include equality are trying to harness this law to serve the extreme left.
Many who recognize the legitimacy of Jewish national rights in the Land of Israel are troubled by the new Basic Law. A look at the background and some of the facts about the law that are misrepresented.
