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...
10 Oct The Unknown Dutch Holocaust Hero Who Saved Over 10,000 Children
When one thinks about the Holocaust, several names like Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg come to mind. However, it often happens that some of the most influential individuals in history,...
08 Oct “Oskar Schindler: We All Know the Movie, What About the Man?”
In 1982, the book “Schindler’s Ark” by Thomas Keneally, told the story of Oskar Schindler, a man who had been a Nazi Party member but ultimately saved over 1,200 Jews...
30 Sep Elie Wiesel – The Holocaust’s Greatest Witness
Elie Wiesel was without doubt the greatest of what we call the “witnesses” to the Holocaust – the mass murder of the Jews during World War II. His books and...
25 Sep Abba Kovner: Fighter, Leader and Renowned Writer
Abba Kovner was a legendary figure who was a Jewish partisan fighter, a leader and a man of letters. Born on March 14, 1918, in Russia, he moved as a...