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Yom Kippur War

 IDF soldiers overlook the Golan Heights, along the border between Israel and Syria, December 11, 2024

'Post' visits Syria in first Israeli media visit since 1974

 Ori Or, Yithak Rabin, Moshe Levy, Uri Sagi.

New recordings of Yitzhak Rabin on Arab-Israeli peace talks, role of reservists

  KING SOLOMON, traditionally considered the author of ‘Ecclesiastes.’

Finding solace in the wisdom of King Solomon: Avner Moriah's work on 'Ecclesiastes'

By ESTI LEVITAS
 MEMORIAL FOR IDF soldiers fallen on both banks of the Suez Canal during the war, seen 1974.

Letters from the front lines: The echoes of the Yom Kippur War in the Israel-Hamas War

By ANNA KRYCER
 Long-range 175mm artillery in action on the Syrian Front, Yom Kippur War

This week in Jewish history: Yom Kippur War turning point, birth of Hebrew and Nazi ghettos

By Steven Drucker
 Israeli soldiers during the Yom Kippur War.

October's defining dates

Portrait of retired Israeli Maj.-Gen. Shaike Gavish, at the Palmach Museum. January 05, 2016.

Shaike Gavish, Six Day War hero, dies at 99

 WORSHIPERS HOLD the Four Species as they pray at the Western Wall, during the Festival of Sukkot, in October in 2023.

‘You shall rejoice in your festival’ despite the hardships of the war

By SHAI FINKELSTEIN
 PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shakes hands with Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as US president Bill Clinton stands between them, after the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords at the White House on September 13, 1993.

We must confront forces of destruction with all our power

By MOHAMED SAAD KHIRALLA
 A C-130 Super Hercules. The aircraft can transport soldiers, gear, and water, and it can also be used to drop pamphlets of the type Israel has been dropping over Gaza to warn people to evacuate or to offer rewards for help finding hostages.

IDF Hercules airplanes: Making history in the skies for 70 years

 SCENE FROM ‘A Warrior & A Dreamer’ in celebration of Noa Eshkol.

No time to dance – a celebration of influential dancer Noa Eshkol

By ORI J. LENKINSKI
 Rabbi Benjamin Segal

Rabbi Benjamin Segal: A 50-year Jerusalemite, scholar, and community founder

 The Knesset building, home of Israel's legislature, in Jerusalem, on November 14, 2022 (Illustrative).

Time to rebuild the government before it's fully destroyed

By MORAN ZER KATZENSTEIN
KFAR CHABAD’S replica of the famed Lubavitch headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York.

Chabad's Mitzvah Tanks parade in New York ahead of Passover

 THEN-PRIME minister Golda Meir speaks at Beit Hanassi in the presence of then-president Ephraim Katzir in 1973.

Bibi’s Golda moment: Netanyahu is faced with the same situation as Golda Meir

 Palestinians break into the Israeli side of Israel-Gaza border fence after Hamas terrorists infiltrated areas of southern Israel, October 7, 2023.

A 1973 Yom Kippur War veteran shares his perspective on Gaza war

By ITZHAK BROOK
 Israeli soldiers guard the bodies of victims of an attack following a mass infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in southern Israel, October 10, 2023.

The True conception: We continue to be endangered by our own assumptions

By MOSHE KLUGHAFT
 Long-range 175mm artillery in action on the Syrian Front, Yom Kippur War

Yom Kippur War: Newly released archives detail Israel's POW deal with Syria