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September 26th, 2022

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February 25th, 2021

First full publication of the Riftin Report, translated to English

We are publishing today in full, for the first time, the Riftin Report, which was classified for 73 years. The report includes the findings of...

September 26th, 2022

The Miltary Rule 1948-1966 – crowd-sourced cataloging project

March 1st, 1948

Concealed for 73 years, the Riftin report is finally published in full

On February 10, 1948, Ben Gurion appointed Yaakov Riftin, a member of Mapam and the Yishuv’s Security Committee, (1) to investigate a string of serious...

December 14th, 2020

The Military Rule annotated document collection is almost ready – help us publish it!

After years of researching, we are almost ready to publish the Military Rule Document Collection. We need your support to complete this project – the...

November 12th, 2020

New website allows users to learn about looting of Palestinian property in 1948

The Looting of Arab Property during the War of Independence, a new book by Akevot Institute researcher Adam Raz, was published last month by Carmel...

July 16th, 1979

Settlements – yes. Unapproved settlements – no

Israel’s 18th government, with Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the helm, in power from June 1977 to August 1981, embodied a new, accelerated phase in...

April 26th, 1985

The man behind the “enlightened occupation”

Shlomo Gazit filled many roles during his military career, most famously, it seems, head of the Military Intelligence Directorate. However, his most notable legacy is...

July 9th, 1969

“Initially, the seizure is for security purposes”

The practice of taking over Palestinian land on security pretexts and then building Israeli settlements on it is familiar mostly from the West Bank. A...

December 17th, 1978

“The fiction of replacing the means with the end may backfire”

Condemnation for the practice of using fictitious security reasons as a guise for building settlements usually come from the opposition to the settlement enterprise. It...

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