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Doctor without Borders – Miriam Duker

Yeshurun Fisher

One of a handful of Jewish women completing medical school despite Russian quotas, Miriam Duker served prestate Israel’s remote communities through thick and thin, extending medical care even to neighboring Arabs Yeshurun Fisher Such a...

ArticlesIsrael's warsIssue 66 | December 2023Land of IsraelmedicinePre-state of IsraelWomenZionism

Greatness in Store – Gittel Dinowitz

Tamar HaYardeni

Very few know anything about her, and even the street sign bearing her name says precious little. Yet Gittel Dinowitz was a pillar of pre-state Jerusalem’s Old City, her leadership growing out of the store...

20th centuryArticlesIsrael's warsIssue 68 | March 2024JerusalemPre-state of IsraelWritersZionism

Joining Forces – Ultra-Orthadox Soliders

Moshe Ehrnvald

Though Israel’s ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students have long been exempt from military service, they weren’t always. In the struggle to secure what became the Jewish state, this camp’s rabbis and public figures were clear that their...

ArticlesIsrael's warsIssue 67 | December 2023Land of IsraelPost-1948

Tale of a Trail | Kibbutz Tirat Zvi

Tamar HaYardeni

What saved Kibbutz Tirat Zvi – and especially its children – from General Fawzi al- Qawuqji’s Arab Salvation Army in the months before the declaration of the State of Israel? Tamar HaYardeni Where To? War...

ColumnsHistoric Walks in IsraelIsrael's warsIssue 45 | November 2018Land of IsraelPost-1948

The Best Defense – Ben-Gurion

Yagil Henkin

Ben-Gurion could never have declared a state in May 1948 without first painstakingly transforming Palestine’s ragtag Jewish militias into an army Yagil Henkin What was David Ben-Gurion’s most significant accomplishment? Most people would probably choose...

ArticlesIsrael Independence DayIsrael's warsIssue 16 | April-May 2013Land of IsraelStatesmen

Israel's wars

Doctor without Borders – Miriam Duker

Greatness in Store – Gittel Dinowitz

Joining Forces – Ultra-Orthadox Soliders

Tale of a Trail | Kibbutz Tirat Zvi

The Best Defense – Ben-Gurion

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Doctor without Borders – Miriam Duker

Greatness in Store – Gittel Dinowitz

Joining Forces – Ultra-Orthadox Soliders

Tale of a Trail | Kibbutz Tirat Zvi

The Best Defense – Ben-Gurion

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