Israel history

From Weizmann computers to start-up nation: How Israel grew to become a high-tech powerhouse

Meir Valman traces the connections among prestate universities, military innovation, global experience, and life sciences that built Israel’s high-tech sector.

Israeli Tech
The Irgun's dismantled Altalena ship is seen off the coast of Tel Aviv, 1948. (Archive)

The Altalena’s enduring lesson: Israel must choose unity over division - opinion

Soldiers praying at the Kotel in 2013.

Will we forever live by the sword? - opinion

Henry Morgenthau, Jr., U.S. Treasury Secretary during World War II, visits Jerusalem in 1951

75 years of investing in Israel: The Man Behind the Concept


How history and the present will shape Israel post-October 7 - opinion

Transformations don’t just happen to Israel, they are chosen by the Israeli people. While Israel is still at war, Israelis will someday have to determine how October 7 will define the country.

 IDF SOLDIERS visit the site of the Supernova music festival massacre in Re’im, near the Israel-Gaza border. While the Israeli people are still at war, it is too early to fully understand the effects of the Hamas attacks on the country and the people, says the writer.

Israeli research uses Earth's magnetic field to verify event in Bible's Book of Kings

The discovery was achieved by scientists from Tel Aviv University (TAU), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU), Bar-Ilan University (BIU) in Ramat Gan, and Ariel University in Samaria.

 One of the studied burnt mudbricks.

Labeling Jews as 'settler-colonialists' flips the truth - opinion

One only need to recall the UNRWA definition of a Palestinian refugee to realize the basic truth of counter-Palestinian demography claims.

 IDF SOLDIERS stand guard while Palestinians and left-wing activists protest near the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh, east of Nablus, in 2022

On This Day in 1948: Israel crosses Egyptian border en route to independence

Operation Horev was the last operation on the Egyptian front during the war, helping Israel recapture the Negev and expelled the Egyptian military from Israel’s territory.

 Operation Horev, 1948

Earliest systematic weapons production dating back 7,000 years found in Israel

The findings show the mass production of slingstones from the Southern Levant dating back to the Early Chalcolithic period (c. 5800–4500 BCE),

 The ancient slingstones: the earliest evidence for warfare in the region

What lessons did the Israel Air Force learn from the Yom Kippur War?

The war marks a 'before and after' for the Israeli air force, which continues to apply its lessons to today's changing landscape.

 Israeli soldiers during the Yom Kippur War.

Israel uses AI to uncover lost Yom Kippur War pages, 50 years on

Archives use AI to speed up disclosures, reveal more impact on civilian front.

 Prime minister Golda Meir, accompanied by her defense minister Moshe Dayan, meets with soldiers on the Golan Heights after the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Israeli archaeologists unearth building destroyed during Babylonian siege of Jerusalem

The building, dubbed 'Building 100', had once belong to an elite member of Jerusalem's society, until it was destroyed by fire in 586 BCE.

Representational image of fire raging during the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem.

Rebel Jewish coin dating to anti-Roman revolt discovered in Israel

A rare half-shekel coin dug up in the Ein Gedi nature reserve was inscribed with the words “The Holy Jerusalem” in Hebrew.

 The silver coin, as found, showing the obverse face with the chalice in the center, and above it the letter “Aleph” marking Year 1 of the outbreak of the  revolt, and the inscription “half-shekel”, the value of the coin.

Most Israeli youth do not know who Zionist leader Jabotinsky was, poll finds

The survey conducted by the right-wing polling agency shows a remarkable gap in Israel's youth regarding Ze'ev Jabotinsky.

 ZE’EV  JABOTINSKY wearing  the uniform of the  Jewish Legion of the  British army, with  sisters Bela and Nina.