02 Dec Tower & Stockade Operation: Building Where Prophets Walked
Tower and Stockade is the name of an operation that the leaders of the pre-state Jewish community in the Land of Israel initiated during the British mandate period in the...
02 Dec The Jerusalem Post: One of Israel’s Trusted Sources
On December 1, 1932, The Jerusalem Post was born. Though, its beginnings came in January 1925, it was then that The Palestine Bulletin was founded by the founder of the...
27 Nov Laurence Oliphant: Embedded in Israel’s National Anthem
Born August 3, 1829 in Cape Town, a colony of the British Empire (Cape Colony), Laurence Oliphant would be known for his authorship, diplomatic works and as a Christian Zionist. In...
15 Nov Chaim Weizmann: Israel’s First President
Chaim Weizmann was the first president of the State of Israel. He was born on November 27, 1874, in the village of Motal, located in present-day Belarus, at that time part...
04 Nov Tragic Assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
November 4, 1995 was one of the darkest days in Israel’s history. It was the day that Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in Tel Aviv by a fanatic, ultranationalist,...
04 Nov Rev. William Blackstone in 1891: Palestine Belongs to the Jews!
Few men have pushed harder for a Jewish homeland in the Land of Israel than Reverend William Blackstone. Born in 1841, Reverend William E. Blackstone was an American Christian Zionist...
04 Nov “Louis Brandeis: First Jewish Supreme Court Justice”
Judge Louis Brandeis was known as the “People’s Lawyer” as well as “A Robin Hood of the law.” During his time as a lawyer as well as a judge, he...
01 Nov Operation Moses: Airlifting Our Brothers Back Home
In 1984, Sudan was in the middle of a civil war which caused a major famine. This was an opportunity for the State of Israel to recollect more of the...
29 Oct The Suez Crisis of 1956: Fighting the Egyptian-Soviet Bloc
Throughout its 70-year modern history as a state, Israel has had to fight several wars with its hostile neighbors. One of those, wars, the Sinai Campaign of 1956, or Operation...
15 Oct Moshe Dayan: Israel’s Greatest General
With his black eyepatch and crooked smile, Moshe Dayan was undoubtedly one of the most widely recognized Israeli figures of the mid-20th century. He was a warrior, commander, politician and...