Avi Shilon News Today

As Israeli ground troops move into the Gaza Strip, fears for the hostages taken by Hamas are growing. The decisions facing the country are growing more difficult with each day that passes.

The current war sparked by attacks by Hamas started one day after the 50th anniversary of the start of Israel's Yom Kippur war.

From the blog of Sara Himeles at The Times of Israel

How did Poles reach the baseless conclusion that Israel's Nobel-winning prime minister was once called Mieczysław Biegun – and why do they keep spreading it?

Follow May. 5, 2021 In his essay “Jewish Israelis should stop being afraid of the Nakba,” (Haaretz, May 1), Haaretz editor-in-chief Aluf Benn suggests that Israeli society “must not run from its past, even when it’s not pleasant to deal with and it raises difficult moral questions,” and to start dealing with the Nakba, “the dark part of the War of Independence.” He even explains why: “I understood that the 1948 story isn’t summarized by the argument of ‘fled or were expelled...

The Miracle of Osirak In June 1981, as Israel was about to begin the holiday of Shavuot, Prime Minister Menachem Begin informed the media he had just ordered one of the most audacious operations in modern military history: the destruction, by Israel’s Air Force, of the Osirak nuclear reactor outside Baghdad. The mission had seemed impossible, as it required flying a total of 2,000 miles—and Israel did not have the ability to refuel. It was assumed that not all the pilots would make it back ...

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