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On this day: Armistice agreement to end World War I signed

The armistice was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne outside Paris; it silenced the guns within hours of its ratification.

|ByJONAH DAVIDOV
First World War: soldiers of the English infantry in France, running out of their trenches at the signal to assault, Somme, France, 1916.
Excavations at the Tell Qana archaeological site in Hod Hasharon, on behalf of Bar-Ilan University and the Israel Antiquities Authority, August 30, 2026.

‘Healing through restoration’: How Israel’s hidden dig site builds community out of archaeology

“Our job is to tell the story of these people, because we are here and we can learn a lot from them," Dagan told The Jerusalem Post.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
British infantry soldiers running out of their trenches at the signal to assault the Somme, France, 1916.

The Somme, 110 years on: The Jewish soldiers who fought and died

The Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest and most infamous battles in history, was intended to break the German lines and bring World War I closer to an Allied victory.

|ByALEX WINSTON
(a) Section of the mosaic showing the leopard and the woman. (b) Section of the mosaic showing the venator with the pole, the leopard, and the woman.

Lost mosaic shows first visual depiction of women fighting beasts in Roman arenas - study

The mosaic, recovered in 1860s Reims, France and dated to the third century CE, shows about 35 different gladiatorial and hunting scenes, each surrounded by diamond or square-shaped decorations.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM

Islamic State claims responsibility for Saudi Arabia attack

The attack on a non-Muslim cemetery in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah wounded several people commemorating World War I.

NOVEMBER 13, 2020ByREUTERS
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

‘1917’ a stark, breathtaking World War I film

Sam Mendes’s 1917 is nothing short of astonishing. Designed as two extraordinarily long, unbroken shots, the film is a stunning feat of cinematography.

JANUARY 2, 2020ByKATIE WALSH
1917’ a stark, breathtaking World War I film

Middle Israel: Lessons from a great war’s disastrous peace

A century since the Treaty of Versailles, Europe is steadily returning to the role of global powder keg.

JULY 5, 2019ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
THE SIGNING of the Versailles Treaty is portrayed – the ill spirits are back.

In the Middle East, WWI centenary is reminder of continuing conflict

Millions in Middle East suffered in WWI, but region largely shrugs off centenary. A look at what happened in 1918 and after.

NOVEMBER 11, 2018BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
King Faisal I of Iraq leads a delegation at Versailles, during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919; on his right is Britain’s T. E. Lawrence