1948, the present National Council shall act as the provisional administration, shall constitute the Provisional Government of the State of Israel. THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open to the ...

Israel gained its independence when the Mandate came to an end in May of 1948 with a United Nations-led partitioning plan for the region. In the early 1950s, Egypt blocks Israeli ships from ...

Israel and Hamas have been waging war since gunmen from the Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip stormed into ...

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, entered Syrian territory Tuesday and said Israeli troops would remain in the ...

Aliyah, the Rebirth of Israel,’ a rare, complete collection of 25 lithographs by the famed artist, is now on view.

The revelry ended only when the 15 young men among them, all fighters in the Haganah, Israel’s pre-state militia ... who would have been 15 or older in 1948 and were living in the country ...

In 1948, unable to solve the problem, Britain withdrew and Jewish leaders declared the creation of the State of Israel. It was intended to be a safe haven for Jews fleeing persecution, as well as ...

An anthology of the most important documents on the domestic and foreign policy of the modern state of Israel, in relation to the rest of ... most significant documents of the Zionist movement since ...

By Lather Farook There was no country called Israel before 1948. It was Palestine which was under Turkey’s Ottoman Empire for ...

The Jewish leadership in Palestine declared the establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948, the moment the British mandate terminated, though without announcing its borders. The following ...

The contradictions at the heart of the State of Israel have had little impact on its success. This can be seen in Israel’s ...

This short film could be used to stimulate a debate about the role of the Holocaust (1939-45) in the creation of the State of Israel (1948) and how this trial defined the existence and maturity of ...