The State of Israel (Hebrew: Medinat Yisrael) was established in 1948 after thousands of years of Jewish dispersal. The Zionist enterprise, with its goal of creating a Jewish national home in Eretz Yisrael, was set in motion by Theodor Herzl in 1897, at...
Israeli writers catch best the spirit of disillusion and reinterpretation that surrounds Israel's celebration of its 50th anniversary EVEN a fist, says Israel's finest poet, Yehuda Amichai, was once an open palm, with fingers. As Israel celebrates its 50th birthday this month-following hard...
Byline: Kathy Walsh Madison Dear Editor: Letter writer Chad Goldberg (April 13) presents a criticism of Hamas based on selected quotations by Hamas officials. There are many other sources (also mostly in Arabic sources, as well as some British and even Israeli sources)...
Medinat Israel better known as Israel declared its independence from Palestine on May 14, 1948, three years after the end of the Holocaust and World War II. The Jewish population in Palestine greatly increased from the end of the 19th century to the early part of the 20th century (from 12,000 to 85,000). Most of the people in Palestine were Arabs and had long been opposed the migration of Jews. The UN agreed on a Partition Plan to divide Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states. This idea was greatly
