1967 War

The ambassador talks Operation Pillar of Defense, ‘monumental threats’

Ariel Sharon planned Israel’s settlements as bulwarks for defending the state and preserving Jerusalem, as his youngest son recalls in a new biography

As Zionism is under siege and Israelis increasingly see their country as divinely ordained, it’s important to remember that the Jewish state is the result not of a miracle but of historical forces and hard work

Friends and Politics, Part 2: Irving Howe. The prominent critic and I worked on Yiddish translations together, but a dispute over Israel and its Arab neighbors ruptured our relationship—until we reconnected over literature.

Israel and Jordan once worked together for peace. Now their alliance is collapsing, driven apart by the issue of refugee resettlement, and Jordan may be turning to Iran.

Israeli President Shimon Peres reflects on his mentor, his peace partner, and whether the State of Israel will survive

The 1967 Soviet-Egyptian intervention in Israel is a lesson in how not to block a Mideast bomb

Maybe American liberal Zionism simply isn’t worth saving

Does Israel’s capital—with its large, activist, and growing ultra-Orthodox population—fairly represent Israel?

The many lives of ‘Jerusalem of Gold,’ an Israeli anthem

Twenty-eight years after he left, an evacuee from Sinai’s largest abandoned settlement looks back at his onetime neighbors’ sad history

Anti-Dead Sea Scroll exhibit, pro-restaurant rights