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 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv last week.

President Herzog to 'Post': Hamas started this war, we will never give up

 Tel Aviv citizens waiting to have their passport photos taken, January 23, 1949

Before biometrics: Israel's earliest passports and travel documents

By GIL ZOHAR
 People walk on Jaffa street in Jerusalem, during Israel's 76th Independence Day celebrations, May 13, 2024.

Looking at a split screen on Independence Day

 (L-R) Hồ Chí Minh in Paris, 1946; Portrait of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, 1949

A tale of two leaders: The Paris meetings between Ben-Gurion and Ho Chi Minh

 The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performing at the ZOA House in Tel Aviv, August 1, 1953

76 years of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

 JERRY SEINFELD, left, wrote, directed and stars in ‘Unfrosted.’

Jerry Seinfeld gets silly in a movie about taking breakfast seriously

 MACCABI TEL AVIV teammates celebrate on the pitch during their 1-0 away victory over Maccabi Haifa at Sammy Ofer Stadium, a result that virtually clinched the Israel Premier League championship for the yellow-and-blue.

Maccabi Tel Aviv beats Maccabi Haifa in soccer match, title on tap

By JOSHUA HALICKMAN
  Israel Air Force planes are seen flying on Independence Day, Tel Aviv beach, April 26, 2023

Reflecting on Israel's 76th Independence Day with subdued celebrations amid Israel-Hamas war

By Deborah Danan/JTA
 A lively public debate has emerged about how Israel’s 76th Independence Day should be celebrated, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

How can I celebrate Israel’s Independence Day when my country is in turmoil?

By JTA/RABBI MIKIE GOLDSTEIN
Tel Aviv children milling around the illuminated fountain in Dizengoff Square, on the eve of Independence Day 1966

Most Israelis want this Independence Day toned down, poll finds

Rachel Goldberg, the U.S.-Israeli mother of Hersh Goldberg Polin, who was taken hostage by militants of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from the Gaza Strip during the October 7 attack on a music festival in south Israel, addresses the media on the sidelines of an event commemorating the 75th An

‘There is so much suffering on both sides’, says mother of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin

By MAARIV
 OUR STORY: In Israeli waters on the ‘Exodus,’ July 18, 1947.

Reflecting on Independence day celebrations during mourning in light of the war

Shira, a Californian-born Israeli sharpshooter from the coed Bardelas Battalion, who served in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, leans on a wall near Israel's border with Egypt in southern Israel. February 21, 2024

Independence means having the freedom to defend ourselves - Netanyahu

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana and Israeli president Isaac Herzog at a state memorial ceremony for victims of terror, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, May 13, 2024, during Memorial Day.

Chaos at ceremonies: Mourners confront government members during speeches

 Poster for the new musical, "Vilna."

The curtain goes up on musical ‘Vilna’

By GEORGE MEDOVOY
 Rebecca Affachiner.

Recalling the 'Betsy Ross of Israel' - Rebecca Affachiner and her flag

By DAVID GEFFEN
 Israeli  minister of Defense Yoav Galant holds a joint press conference with minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich (not seen) in Jerusalem, on December 26, 2023.

Gallant instructs defense min. to develop new, peerless weapon to combat terrorists

 Masa Israel Journey hosted 16th annual Yom HaZikaron ceremony at Yad L’Shiryon in Latrun, Israel

Masa Israel Journey Hosts World’s Largest English-Language Yom HaZikaron Ceremony

 An aerial view shows the Dome of the Rock in front and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Jerusalem, April 26, 2023.

Despite war, Israeli universities rise in global rankings, Hebrew University placed highest

 A SCENE from ‘Walk on Water.’

Looking back on 2004, a breakthrough for Israeli cinema

 THE ANU MUSEUM of the Jewish People invites the general public to the event, ‘We Are Israelis,’ as part of which the museum launches a new tour, ‘Between Dream and Fulfillment.’ Pictured is a photo on display by Leni Sonnenfeld from 1950.

A subdued Independence Day: How cities around Israel are marking the occasion

By NERIA BARR
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