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The Gaza war and dark history of the ‘BBC’ during the Holocaust

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The BBC on Feb. 12 patted itself on the back, claiming that its report from the prior week has caused the Israeli Defense Forces to say it will “take action against any soldiers found to have filmed...
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...

Uzzi Ornan, linguist and former Irgun member, dies at age 99

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Uzzi Ornan, Irgun fighter, linguist and a follower of the Canaanite movement, died on Thursday in Nofit, in the Lower Galilee, at the age of 99. Born Uzziel Halperin in Jerusalem in 1923 to a...
Irgun fighter Dov Gruner, who was executed by the British in 1947. Photo: Government Press Office archive.

Executed Irgun fighter’s tefillin found after 75 years

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Decades after they were lost, the tefillin (phylacteries) of Irgun fighter Dov Gruner, who was hanged by the British in 1947 after being caught during a raid on the Ramat Gan police station, are...