Introduction On July 22, 1946, the King David Hotel in Jerusalem was rocked by a devastating explosion. Carried out by members of the Irgun, a Jewish underground militant group, the bombing targeted the building, which housed the British administrative and military headquarters in Palestine. Depending on one’s perspective, the attackers were either freedom fighters striving […]
The history of the Israelites is one of the most fascinating and storied in all of human history. The twelve tribes of Israel, mentioned in the Bible, were a powerful force in the ancient Near East, yet only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin survived the Assyrian capture of Israel. The fate of the other […]
In the early years of the State of Israel, the fledgling nation found itself facing numerous military threats from its Arab neighbors. One of the key factors that allowed Israel to prevail in the 1948 War of Independence was the contribution of a group of foreign mercenary pilots who volunteered their services to the Israeli […]