The Palestinian question never disappeared despite Israel’s best efforts and worst brutality.

On May 14, 1948, at 6:11 p.m. in Tel Aviv, prime minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the establishment of the modern State ...

Two images of the handwritten diary of David Ben-Gurion from the evening of May 14, 1948 — the day the State of Israel’s establishment was proclaimed — were released Monday ahead of Israel’s ...

Two Israeli generals who had played prominent roles in Israel’s War of Liberation retorted sharply today to a statement by former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, who had implied that a third general ...

Internationally, Israel’s birth reshaped geopolitics. The Cold War powers quickly took sides, and the Middle East became a ...

The war in Israel is steeped in history. So you need to start at the beginning. David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948.

The Nakba is not simply an historical event but an ongoing system of displacement, erasure and resistance that continues to ...

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 ...

At sundown tomorrow, Israel will begin celebrating its 75th anniversary as an independent nation in the modern era. Israel was then and remains today the only democracy in the region, which is, in ...