History

Memory depends on truth: The stories of Holocaust victims must be preserved - opinion

When asked what would happen when there are no more Holocaust survivors to tell their stories, Elie Wiesel replied, “Maybe you are the only hope I have – make it come true.”

Polish-born Holocaust survivor Meyer Hack shows his prisoner number tattooed on his arm during a news conference at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem June 15, 2009.
A HOLOCAUST survivor lights a torch during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Two Holocaust remembrance days: Why Israel’s is different - opinion

 Did desiNew insights on the Antikythera Mechanism.

Greece’s Antikythera Mechanism upends timelines of technology

Entrance to Auschwitz I, the main concentration camp, Poland, 1940-1945.

Memory depends on truth: Why post-truth culture endangers Holocaust remembrance - opinion


'Playmakers': How Jews shaped the American Dream through toys and teddy bears - review

Marginality and antisemitism gave Jews the edge they needed to innovate and invent.

CLOTHING DESIGNER Charlotte Johnson with a 1965 Barbie doll.

New study rewrites the story of King Harold’s loss of England to William the Conqueror

Analysis of battlefield sources and chronicles deepens the mystery around the last anglo-saxon monarch.

 Rare Saxon cross-shaped pendant discovered near Leeds.

Decades after Romania’s secret police trailed a Jewish photographer, their files have become a film

“Plan contraplan/Shot Reverse Shot,” which premiered at the Berlinale international film festival, features photojournalist Edward Serotta’s reminiscences about Romania in the 1980s.

Photographer Edward Serotta takes a self-portrait in a hotel room during his efforts to document Romania in the 1980s.

Israel digs up the West Bank – and reignites a battle over history

As Israel expands excavations in the West Bank, ancient ruins become entangled in a modern political struggle over land, history, and identity

Workers and volunteers on an archaeological dig sift through dirt at Alexandrion/Sartaba in the Jordan Valley.

Rewind history to the Gulf War with these Israeli classics

TV Time: The Israel Film Archive has a wealth of clips going back over a century, including home movies, footage of weddings, nature scenes, inventions, fashion shows, folk dances, and movies, etc.

MARY, THE plain yet intellectually savvy Bennet sister, is the main character in ‘The Other Bennet Sister.’

The Judean Desert in bloom: Following ancient paths of healing just beyond Jerusalem

Again and again, I discovered that some of the most profound healing environments lie just beyond Jerusalem’s crowded streets.

A Judean Desert carpet of spring wildflowers.

Why the future of war belongs to the improvers, not the inventors - opinion

A future large-scale war will not be won with a handful of expensive drones, but those that are flexible enough to adapt and numerous enough to matter.

Servicemen of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fire a BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system towards Russian troops, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the frontline town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region, Ukraine January 24, 2026.

From Khaybar to Khamenei: Historic battles and their echo in modern Iran - opinion

Historic battles and religious memory echo across generations, from the Battle of Khaybar to the death of Khamenei.

 The Battle of Khaybar.

From Shushan to Tehran: Purim’s story repeats itself - opinion

Again and again, the pattern returns: a decree of destruction, a sudden fall, a people still standing.

People celebrate Purim in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem.

After 144 years, Israel's Health Ministry to move from Jerusalem’s Ottoman-era health building

Its history spans the late Ottoman Empire, in which the Turks ruled Jerusalem from 1516 until 1917, to the British Mandate, to the State of Israel.

District Health Office at 86 Jaffa Road – the Ottoman-era stone façade with courtyard entrance.