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October 4th, 2023
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May 7th, 2021
The Ben Gurion Archive website has uploaded pages from the diaries of Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, dating between 1948 and 1953. Parts...
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October 4th, 2023
The anniversary of the Six Day War, which broke out 54 years ago this week, is an opportunity to revisit a constitutive moment in Israel’s...
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October 4th, 2023
On June 1, 1951, exactly 70 years ago, the Acre Military Government was dissolved, after three years in which the city was under a strict...
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October 4th, 2023
The term “mixed cities,” which has been making headlines recently, hides a varied history. Some cities were mixed before 1948, some became mixed immediately after...
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December 1st, 1948
By the end of the 1948 war, Israel had seized vast areas populated with Palestinian villages and tribes. Several forums were set up to address...
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December 21st, 1948
Suggestions to settle Jewish immigrants, or as they are known in Israel, Olim, in Palestinian villages depopulated in 1948 were made even as the war...
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October 4th, 2023
Since Israel’s founding – and to this day – state officials have kept an eye on the employment, opinions, and actions of Arab public school...
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July 13th, 1992
For many years, the question of who would investigate complaints of torture during interrogations by the Shin Bet (Israel’s internal security agency) was debated by...
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October 4th, 2023
Historical records from the early decades of statehood reveal Israel took a keen interest in how Independence Day was marked in the country’s Palestinian communities....
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