On December 4, 1948, a letter was published in the New York Times signed by notable intellectuals like Albert Einstein, ...

In Lebanon and Syria today, the reverse is the case. For different historical reasons (Lebanon, longstanding social fissures; ...

There are manifest dangers in drawing historical lessons from popular culture, in this case an enormous bestseller from the ...

In 1977, before the Camp David talks, Begin and Sadat had a preliminary meeting at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel. On July 22, ...

In 1948, he was an 18-year-old student at the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland. Somehow, he caught wind of the fact that Zionist activists were looking for young men and women to help the Jewish state in unc ...

The Altalena Affair is not the title of an Agatha Christie novel. The Altalena was the name of a ship, and its final voyage was historic. On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion formally declared the ...

The bombing is believed to be the work of the Irgun which yesterday killed 13 Arabs at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem in a similar action. The bombs, which set off the worst massacre in the month ...

leader of the pre-state underground Irgun and consummate outsider in Israeli politics. Relations between Carter and Begin were tense from the moment the two first met at the White House in July.