The IRGC reports directly to the Supreme Leader, bypassing the elected president and operates beyond the bounds of the law ...

Forced into exile 25 years ago and compelled to stay away in order to stay alive, journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj always dreamt of returning to Sri Lanka. That flame of hope flickered occasionally, as the ...

It was the collision of Israel’s past with its present and future. The offerings may have been meager. The dairy dishes improvised. But the spirit was resolute.

Judith is the misleading Old Testament title of a film that ought to be called Sophia Loren’s Israel. Based on a story by Lawrence Durrell, it is set in Palestine in 1948, just before the ...

A Haganah guard, Itzhak Franco, 20, was killed in the same area and fighting was continuing. Attacks were also launched on Tel Aviv’s suburbs, including Bat Yam and the Zablawi quarter, but were ...

Before the formation of the Israeli Defence Forces in 1948, there were three underground Zionist militias - The Haganah, the Irgun and the Lehi. They differed in tactics and beliefs, and at times ...

Among those marching Tuesday was 88-year-old Abdul Rahman al-Sabah. He described how members of the Haganah, a Zionist paramilitary group, forced his family out of Al-Kassayer, near the northern city ...

In 1946, the Haganah Zionist militia established HEMED, the Science Corps, which opened bases on all three campuses. Universities soon became central to the development and manufacture of weapons.

A Hebrew acronym for Krav Panim al Panim (literally, face-to-face combat), KAPAP was developed in the 1940s by the Haganah, the largest paramilitary force in pre-state Israel. It was based on a ...