Posts Tagged: Founding of Israel
Israel at 73
Modern Israel celebrates its 73rd birthday this week. Let me put my cards on the table: I’m not dispassionate when it comes to the country. For...
If You Will It, It Is No Dream… but Only on Our Terms
In his address to the Zionist Congress in London on August 2, 1900, Theodor Herzl said: Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured home in...
Mourning the Holocaust, but Celebrating Israel
JNS.org - At last week’s World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, Israel’s former Ashkenazi chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, himself a survivor, said he was incapable...
Forgotten Heroes: The French Jewish Resistance and Exodus 1947
The year 2019 marks the 72nd anniversary of the Exodus 1947 ship, perhaps the most dramatic post-World War II attempt to breach the British naval...
Israel Cannot Ignore Its Special Mission Solely for the Sake of ‘Security’
Israel is at a fateful crossroads. The unending necessity to safeguard the state’s secure existence ensures that its leaders will face complex and painful decisions....
Israel’s Other Founding Fathers and a Vanquished World
Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel by Matti Friedman (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019). “Time spent with old spies,” author...
No, Israel Was Not Created by the United Nations
Arab News has a typical anti-Israel screed by Chris Doyle, director of the London-based Council for Arab-British Understanding. He writes, "Israel was a child of the UN,...
Revisiting Walter Eytan’s — and Israel’s — ‘First Ten Years’
The diplomatic history of Israel as related by Dr. Walter Eytan, the first director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry (from 1948 to 1959), considered the...
May 14, 2018: A Historic Day for Israel
May 14 loomed large in 1948. It was the date, according to the secular calendar, when the modern state of Israel was born. It was a...
Alan Dershowitz on Israel at 70: ‘A Light Unto the World’
JNS.org - Ahead of Israel’s 70th birthday in May, longtime Harvard University Law professor, attorney and author Alan Dershowitz announced that he is donating an ambucycle...
Why Israel? A Haven, a Homeland, a Holy Land — Yom Haatzmaut 2017
Maybe it was crazy. In February 2003, I led a mission to Israel shortly before the Iraq War. It was a time of great nervousness; when...
From Dry Bones to Start Up Nation
On May 15th, 1948 a certain national myth became a reality. Though Jews weren't the only landless people to walk the earth at the time,...
