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What are the high and low points in Israel’s history with the United Nations? I still remember the night my

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Israeli forces yesterday fired on protesters trying to breach the Gaza border fence, killing more than 60 and injuring 2,400. ...
Why more young Orthodox women are serving in the IDF. ...
With Israeli Independence Day coming up on May 14, we spoke with food writer and chef Vered Guttman about how to prepare for the holiday, the best foods to celebrate with—and which Israeli dishes she misses the most. ...
“When Jews gathered as religious communities, we didn't have to tolerate significant differences: When we disagreed, we just founded a ...
The long tradition of Jewish food, wrote culinary historian Gil Marks, has always been one of “transforming and transferring,” and ...
To mark the 70th anniversary of Israel’s independence, Moment asks curators from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Ben-Gurion University to choose outstanding works of art from each decade. ...
On my way to the gleaming airport named after him, I wondered what David Ben-Gurion and his fellow pioneers—Israel’s greatest generation—would think of their country today. ...
Natalie Portman made a political statement: You, Mr. Netanyahu, she said, are not the state. ...
. After Israel’s establishment, Idelson served in the first five Knessets, where she was also the first woman to serve as deputy speaker. ...

I just returned from Israel, where I found myself in the passenger seat of a Jaguar roadster roaring through the Judean

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The core idea behind that operation, and many others to follow, was the belief that we Israelis can solve our dispute with the Palestinians by first vanquishing them in the battlefield. If only we’ll be stronger militarily—if not morally—the problem will somehow solve itself. Of course, it never did. ...