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From the blog of Brandon Marlon at The Times of Israel

Long before Zionism was founded, groups of Torah-true Jews from all over the world began “the long trip home,” and it is thanks to their initiative and daring that we are again in our Land.

Dayan’s public and private faults do not eclipse his greatness, and maybe his shortcomings make for a more representative hero of his era and his country.

From the blog of Ariel Stone at The Times of Israel

At sundown tomorrow, Israel will begin celebrating its 75th anniversary as an independent nation in the modern era. It is a day to celebrate the only democracy in the region, writes columnist Michael Sean Winters.

When the final results of the Israeli legislative elections were announced on 3 November 2022, a striking thought immediately popped into Avital Chayat's mind. As the broadcaster declared that (...)

Why does the history of the Irgun and Lehi have such a poor record of cinema and television treatment?

The simplistic hawk-dove divide is not reflective of Zionist history, as is clearly demonstrated through the politics of kibbutz movement luminary Yitzhak Tabenkin (1887-1971).

A look at the incoming prime minister’s new biography and what it tells us about Israel’s longest-serving leader and the ideology that guides him.

What matters today is that every year on November 29, one of the latest in vogue narratives about 1947 and Israel’s creation is that it was a “settler colonial” enterprise.