Haganah

Large fire breaks out near Tel Aviv's Haganah station

The fire is said to have started in a nearby factory, and residents reported a large cloud of smoke rising from the area.

 Footage of the fire as seen from the train station in Tel Aviv.
A GALA celebration of the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress takes place at the original venue, the Stadtcasino Basel, Switzerland, in 2022.

The Jewish community should reevaluate its priorities and reconnect with its mission - opinion

 JEWISH YOUTH mobilized to train for the Hagana, April 4, 1948.

How Zionist party divisions hindered Israel's progress in the 1940s

 HAGANA POSTER, 1940s.

Thank you Hagana, for leading Jewish insurgency and securing the Israeli state - opinion


Nazi hunter with Mossad ties new focus in BBC documentary 

The ex-Shin Bet agent gained unprecedented access into Ireland's IRA.

Haganah volunteers evacuate wounded 370

Mystery as old as Israel: Who is the little girl buried with Hahagana fighter?

An eight-year-old girl was buried with a fallen Hahagan fighter in 1948, but nothing is known about her.

 PARATROOPERS SALUTE after placing flags on the graves of fallen soldiers, during preparations for Remembrance Day ceremonies on the Mount of Olives.

Nazis, disease, bombs, refugees: Ruth Sitton's journey to Israel

The astonishing journey of compassion of Ruth Sitton: The Nazi Adolf Eichmann helped her and her father come to Mandatory Palestine, though bombs and disease got in the way.

 Sitton’s family before the Holocaust. She is on her father’s lap.

Jordan offers 'sins of the Nakba' tours in west Jerusalem

Israeli security officials were surprised when they heard about the trips that are being carried out just a few hundred meters from the Prime Minister's residence.

Nakba day in Gaza

First female IDF paratrooper Yocheved Kashi dies aged 93 - report

“She is an example and model of groundbreaking pioneering.” Brig.-Gen. Yehiel Gozel, chairman of the Paratroopers' Legacy Association, said.

Yocheved Kashi in 1950

Graves of 2 fallen soldiers from War of Independence found

Binyamin Eisenberg and Yitzhak Rubinstein were killed in the battle for Kibbutz Yad Mordechai.

 Private Binyamin Aryeh (York) Eisenberg (left) and Private Yitzhak Rubinstein (right) were KIA in 1948, the battle of Kibbutz Yad Mordechai.

His way: Frank Sinatra in the service of Israel

Well after Israeli independence was declared, Frank Sinatra would continue to accompany the young country for many years. And everything he did, he did with love. His way.

Screenshot of Frank Sinatra from the trailer for the film Pal Joey, 1957

Israel Independence: Remembering a failed attack on Jaffa Gate in 1948

It was like somebody watching in a theater when the plot had become complicated and unsolvable, and knowing that now the turn of the deus ex machina had arrived, except I was the one on the stage.

 JAFFA GATE, 1968.

On This Day: 79 killed by Arabs in Hadassah convoy massacre 74 years ago

A total of 79 people died, including 23 women and one British soldier in this massacre in Sheikh Jarrah during the Arab-Jewish struggle over Jerusalem in the pre-state era.

 Aftermath of attack on Hadassah convoy, 13 April 1948.

The Mossad man behind Eichmann's capture - interview

My final question was to ask him how he would like to be remembered. He answered quietly: “As a servant of my country."

 A SKETCH of Adolf Eichmann superimposed over a map of part of South America.

Counterintelligence and retaliation by the Hagana in pre-state Palestine

On the evening of October 12, 1939, Criminal Investigation Dept. (CID) Constable Baruch Weinfeld was struck on the head with a blackjack. A body was found nearby.

 HAIFA, 1930s.