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 A WOMAN walks near the State of Palestine Pavilion at the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, last December. In multiple ways, the Arab side has rejected the two-state solution or undermined its application, the writer argues.

A century of Arab rejectionism is reason for no two-states

Dizengoff Square on the eve of Independence Day 1966.

A trip back to the birthplace of modern Israel: Tel Aviv

By INBAL AHARONI
Israelis cheer during the annual Bible Quiz on Israel's Independence Day. April 16, 2013

Independence Day Bible Quiz: Bringing Jews worldwide together

 An antisemitic propaganda mural is seen in Romania in 1942.

Antisemitism: Combating the recurring virus

By ROBERT HERSOWITZ
 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden is welcomed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in October, when the president visited Israel following the massacres carried out by Hamas.

Concerns over US-Israel relations are premature - opinion

 A WORKER uses a buzz saw at the construction site for a new warehouse in the Har Tuv Industrial Zone in Beit Shemesh earlier this month. To invest in Israel, you used to have to be a Zionist. Now, you only need to be a capitalist, says the writer.

The time to invest in Israel is now

By Aaron Levitats
 Ancient 'horoscope' scroll unveiled: A glimpse into the mysterious sect of the Judean Desert

Ancient 'horoscope' scroll unveiled: A glimpse into the mysterious sect of the Judean Desert

 IDF SOLDIERS visit the site of the Supernova music festival massacre in Re’im, near the Israel-Gaza border. While the Israeli people are still at war, it is too early to fully understand the effects of the Hamas attacks on the country and the people, says the writer.

How history and the present will shape Israel post-October 7 - opinion

 One of the studied burnt mudbricks.

Israeli research uses Earth's magnetic field to verify event in Bible's Book of Kings

 IDF SOLDIERS stand guard while Palestinians and left-wing activists protest near the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh, east of Nablus, in 2022

Labeling Jews as 'settler-colonialists' flips the truth - opinion

 Operation Horev, 1948

On This Day in 1948: Israel crosses Egyptian border en route to independence

 The ancient slingstones: the earliest evidence for warfare in the region

Earliest systematic weapons production dating back 7,000 years found in Israel

 Israeli soldiers during the Yom Kippur War.

What lessons did the Israel Air Force learn from the Yom Kippur War?

 Prime minister Golda Meir, accompanied by her defense minister Moshe Dayan, meets with soldiers on the Golan Heights after the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Israel uses AI to uncover lost Yom Kippur War pages, 50 years on

Representational image of fire raging during the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem.

Israeli archaeologists unearth building destroyed during Babylonian siege of Jerusalem

 The silver coin, as found, showing the obverse face with the chalice in the center, and above it the letter “Aleph” marking Year 1 of the outbreak of the  revolt, and the inscription “half-shekel”, the value of the coin.

Rebel Jewish coin dating to anti-Roman revolt discovered in Israel

 ZE’EV  JABOTINSKY wearing  the uniform of the  Jewish Legion of the  British army, with  sisters Bela and Nina.

Most Israeli youth do not know who Zionist leader Jabotinsky was, poll finds

 THEN-PRIME MINISTER David Ben-Gurion has his first meeting with France’s president Charles de Gaulle at the Palais de L’elysee in Paris, during his official visit to France in 1960.

Israel's first ally: The forgotten Paris-Jerusalem alliance - opinion