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Eisenkot challenges Netanyahu to televised debate, US tourist arrested outside IDF's Kirya complex

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot
The search for the remains of the Altalena, published August 24, 2026.

From lost ship to new battleground: Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir using Altalena in election spat - analysis

Simcha Applebaum serving as deputy commander within the 188th Brigade.

Holocaust survivor, Yom Kippur War hero Colonel Simcha Applebaum dies at 99

Maj. Gen. (ret.) Dan Tolkowsky

Israeli Air Force hero Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Dan Tolkowsky passes away at 104


First female IDF paratrooper Yocheved Kashi dies aged 93 - report

“She is an example and model of groundbreaking pioneering.” Brig.-Gen. Yehiel Gozel, chairman of the Paratroopers' Legacy Association, said.

Yocheved Kashi in 1950

Graves of 2 fallen soldiers from War of Independence found

Binyamin Eisenberg and Yitzhak Rubinstein were killed in the battle for Kibbutz Yad Mordechai.

 Private Binyamin Aryeh (York) Eisenberg (left) and Private Yitzhak Rubinstein (right) were KIA in 1948, the battle of Kibbutz Yad Mordechai.

His way: Frank Sinatra in the service of Israel

Well after Israeli independence was declared, Frank Sinatra would continue to accompany the young country for many years. And everything he did, he did with love. His way.

Screenshot of Frank Sinatra from the trailer for the film Pal Joey, 1957

Israel Independence: Remembering a failed attack on Jaffa Gate in 1948

It was like somebody watching in a theater when the plot had become complicated and unsolvable, and knowing that now the turn of the deus ex machina had arrived, except I was the one on the stage.

 JAFFA GATE, 1968.

On This Day: 79 killed by Arabs in Hadassah convoy massacre 74 years ago

A total of 79 people died, including 23 women and one British soldier in this massacre in Sheikh Jarrah during the Arab-Jewish struggle over Jerusalem in the pre-state era.

 Aftermath of attack on Hadassah convoy, 13 April 1948.

The Mossad man behind Eichmann's capture - interview

My final question was to ask him how he would like to be remembered. He answered quietly: “As a servant of my country."

 A SKETCH of Adolf Eichmann superimposed over a map of part of South America.

Counterintelligence and retaliation by the Hagana in pre-state Palestine

On the evening of October 12, 1939, Criminal Investigation Dept. (CID) Constable Baruch Weinfeld was struck on the head with a blackjack. A body was found nearby.

 HAIFA, 1930s.

Short story: Vengeance

"vengeance isn’t for us mortals. Remember – “Vengeance is mine, says the Lord.”

The Israeli National Maritime Museum

Women of the Palmah: Hear their stories

The Palmah was the elite fighting unit of the Hagana, the underground army of the Jewish community in Israel during pre-state times.

YOCHEVED BEN-SHMUEL

Grapevine January 17, 2021: Surprise encounters

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

Jerusalem's usually busy Old City is seen virtually empty during Israel's third coronavirus lockdown.