Full agreement on the composition of the provisional Jewish Government was reached here after midnight at a joint meeting of leaders of the Jewish Agency and the Jewish National Council which lasted ...

"Mr. President, in the USA, there are a number of towns whose names derive from the Bible. There are so many places named Hebron and places called Shiloh and other places known as Bethlehem. Would it ...

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 ...

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 going ...

On July 22, 1946, the Irgun resistance organization blew up a section of the King David Hotel, killing 91 British, Arabs and Jews. They later claimed they had warned the British about the impending ...

Irgun, the Jewish terrorist organisation, yesterday morning assembled a strong force on the "frontier" of the Jewish city of Tel Aviv and began an attack on the Arab port of Jaffa. The attack was not ...

(JTA) — When Amit Re’em embarked on a 1999 excavation of an abandoned Ottoman prison in the Old City of Jerusalem, he didn’t expect anything revolutionary. The dig was primarily aimed at inspecting ...