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Former Mossad Director Zvi Zamir speaks at a memorial service marking 21 years since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, held at the Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem. Nov. 4, 2016. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Former Mossad chief Zvi Zamir dies at 98

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Zvi Zamir, the fourth director of Israel's Mossad national intelligence agency, died in Tel Aviv on Jan. 2. He was 98 years old. Born Zvicka Zarzevsky in 1925 in Lodz, Poland, Zamir immigrated to Israel...
Israeli founding father and first prime minister David Ben-Gurion declares independence beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The Holocaust is not why they fought, say 1948 veterans of Israel’s War of...

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Many see the creation of the modern-day State of Israel as part of a historical narrative, in which Israeli independence was a reaction to the Holocaust. “The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people—the...
Václav Havel Airport Prague in May 2017. Credit: Renardo la Vulpo via Wikimedia Commons.

IDF, Israeli Defense Ministry to bring paratrooper remains from Prague for burial

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The Israel Defense Forces and Israeli Ministry of Defense’s Families, Commemoration and Heritage Division have sent a delegation to Prague to return the remains of IDF paratrooper Private Martin Davidovich to Israel for burial,...
Passover table setting. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Passover seder’s takeaways speak to the woke divide

This Saturday night in the midst of the loosening COVID-19 pandemic and the tightening of America’s cancel culture pandemic, Jewish families will celebrate the Passover seder. Veterans of seders past anticipate the drinking four cups...