Israeli War of Independence

The fate of every Jewish settlement that fell to the Arabs: the killing of fighters and civilians alike, mutilation of their bodies, and looting of property.

Uri Misgav
Dec. 20 2021 12:01AM

Half a loaf of bread in exchange for water.

Moshe Levin and Amit Naor
May 11 2021 12:01AM

Jews have lived in Sheikh Jarrah since 1875.

Micha Danzig
May 10 2021 12:01AM

Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer.

Stuart Schoffman
April 15 2021 12:01AM

Exonerating those accused of treason after the shelling of the Altalena.

Shlomo Nakdimon
June 18 2020 12:01AM

And helped organize one of the war’s worst massacres.

Meir Zamir
May 20 2020 12:01AM

The White House peace plan gets its history wrong.

Raphael Bouchnik-Chen
Feb. 20 2020 12:01AM

If the Jews could hang on through the tough early months, he thought, they would grow considerably stronger while their opponents might well become weaker. And so it proved to be.

Feb. 12 2020 12:01AM

On the eve of Israel’s statehood in 1948, with the massed forces of five Arab nations threatening invasion, David Ben-Gurion picked a fight with his own army. Why?

Feb. 3 2020 12:01AM

And exposes other myths about Israel’s War of Independence.

Yoav Gelber
Dec. 31 2019 12:01AM

Accusing the victims of becoming the executioners in order to play on European sympathies.

Dec. 16 2019 12:01AM

The Manichean distinction between “colonized” and “colonizers” does not stand the test of historical scrutiny.

Oct. 31 2019 12:01AM

Israel’s first prime minister was no enthusiast of ethnic cleansing.

Oct. 17 2019 12:01AM

The mere sight of it terrified the invaders and roused the spirits of the outnumbered defenders.

Robert Gandt
Sept. 5 2019 12:01AM