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Baby Air Force Twenty-five years have passed since the Israeli Air Force Museum opened in the blazing sun over the Hatzerim air base, not far from Beersheba. Hundreds of models of retired warplanes are arrayed...
Itamar Atzmon
Despite the need for secrecy, and with production lines under fire, Israel’s first stamps were printed in time for independence Itamar Atzmon On 5 Iyar – the final day of the British Mandate – the...
Asael Abelman
Eastern European Locals Pave the Way for Herzl The Russian pogroms of 1881–2 and growing European anti-Semitism precipitated vast Jewish emigration from eastern Europe, mostly to the U.S. and western Europe. A tiny minority headed...
Few famous names attended the first Zionist Congress in Basel, but it made Zionism a political movement no one could ignore Asael Abelman In February 1896, Herzl published Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State). Discussed in...
