Since being deployed in 2011, Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system has drastically reduced the impact of rocket attacks on Israeli civilians. With a 90% success rate, Israel’s Iron Dome […]

On May 15, 1947, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) was created in response to a request from the British that the UN General Assembly “make recommendations under […]

Since the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, Jews had been dominated by foreign rulers and treated as second-class citizens for nearly 2,000 years. Then in 1917, as World War I changed […]

On October 31st, Jews in Israel will celebrate the national holiday Yom Haaliyah (day of ascension or day of “going up”). The day coincides each year with the Torah portion […]

The extreme violence of the Palestinian uprising known as the First Intifada created such uncontrollable chaos in the West Bank between 1987 and 1993 that the Jordanian government no longer […]

In 1991, the United States, together with Russia, convened an Arab-Israeli peace conference in Madrid—the first of its kind. For the first time, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and a Palestinian […]

The second intifada was more deadly than the first. Suicide bombings became a regular occurrence in Israel. No one was safe from terrorists, not even innocent Arab bystanders. Over 1,000 […]

On September 5, 1972, five Palestinian terrorists entered the Munich Olympic Village disguised in track suits, their weapons concealed in gym bags. Joined by three other gunmen, the terrorists used […]

In its Declaration of Independence, Israel affirms itself as the homeland for all Jews, yet commits to be a democracy defined by equality for all, irrespective of national origin; this […]

In the Ancient Near East, it was common for two people to make a covenant by cutting animals in half, splitting the halves, and then walking in between the pieces […]