Ben-Gurion frequently used the term “harada” (anxiety) to describe the dread he felt for the Zionist project and the lives placed in his care. The country’s founding prime minister David Ben-Gurion ...

“Whether the video is authentic or fake, it attempts to tarnish David Ben-Gurion's memory," the Ben-Gurion Heritage Institute stated, A video showing several young ultra-Orthodox Jews performing ...

Armed with a camera and tape recorder, he spent decades preserving the ancient traditions of nomadic Middle Eastern tribes. By Isabel Kershner The union, which predates Israel’s founding, led a strike ...

Americans in search of hope and optimism amid Israel’s multifront war as well as surging antisemitism on the home front can find it on Dec. 8 through “Ben-Gurion Day in the USA,” Americans for ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. JERUSALEM ...

Tom Segev, trans. from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $40 (816p) ISBN 978-0-374-11264-6 Israeli historian Segev (1967) provides an exhaustive biography of the country’s first ...

Under a compromise thrashed out in 1948 between Israel’s founder David Ben-Gurion and the ultra-Orthodox community, young Haredi men have for years been exempt from military service if they instead ...

After a missile strike destroyed Soroka Medical Center, the philanthropist behind Israel’s most ambitious rebuilding effort ...

During his visit to Israel last week in furtherance of US efforts to bring the Israel-Gaza hostilities to a complete close, ...

Blow the great trumpet for our freedom and raise the banner for the ingathering of the exiles and gather us together from the four corners of the earth, and may our eyes behold the return to Zion in ...

Ultra-Orthodox Israelis, exempt for decades from military service, are now being drafted. Their rage is dividing Israel and threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. By Elisabeth ...