The fire is said to have started in a nearby factory, and residents reported a large cloud of smoke rising from the area.

And Israel’s enemies took note. As Israelis fought among themselves, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran took advantage, growing stronger, bolder. The cracks in unity gave them an opening. And the unthinkable ...

As an 82 year-old Palestinian survivor of the Nakba — a phrase that we are not actually allowed to use — I have seen it all ...

Clare historian, Tomás Mac Conmara explores the foundation of the Israeli state and its long history of conflict The oldest ...

Exactly 80 years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated the remaining 7,000 prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The largest of the Nazi death camps, Auschwitz saw the murder of 1.1 million ...

The policy of the Zionist movement toward Palestine since the late 19th century, has theft, dispossession and ethnic ...

Israel was on the brink of war and Yehudit served in the Haganah as a medic. She would have liked to have become a nurse but that was impossible in her circumstances.

After being betrayed by her husband, German commander Gustav Schiller, and left to die in a concentration camp, the Jewish Judith is smuggled into Palestine by the Haganah, where she plans to ...

Israel was recognised by the UN the following year. A Haganah (Jewish Underground) fighter just before the start of the Israeli war of independence in 1948 By the time the fighting ended with an ...

Who organized the arms smuggling? Both the Haganah and the Irgun Zvai Leumi organized underground networks to gather weapons and send them overseas. I once interviewed someone whose family had ...

The conflict came to be known in Israel as its war of independence. Getty Images A Haganah (Jewish Underground) fighter just before the start of the Israeli war of independence in 1948 By the time ...