Sublime

“I did not give up on the whole land; rather, I thought that bringing two million Jews was worth more than fine rhetoric about the integrity of Palestine,”

One of the most fascinating chapters in the history of the State of Israel concerns the contribution of young Israeli scientists to the security of the newly established State. The term Cheil Mada (the Science Corps)—or HEMED, as it was known—remains largely unknown. Only a handful of members of today’s generation are aware that David Ben-Gurion wa

Palestinian and German terrorists hijacked an Air France plane and took it to Entebbe, Uganda, where they held more than a hundred hostages, most of them Jews and, of those, many Israeli. In a daring mission that became the stuff of Israeli legend, an Israeli Special Forces team flew to Entebbe on July 4 and rescued all the hostages (save for three

On psychanalysa sans se lasser la formule maladroite du Premier ministre Raymond Barre pour lui découvrir un insoutenable inconscient antisémite : « Cet attentat odieux voulait frapper les Israélites qui se rendaient à la synagogue et a frappé des Français innocents qui traversaient la rue Copernic. »

that included Uri Ilan back in 1954. As of April 1963, following the resignation of Isser Harel, Amit served in a dual capacity – director of AMAN and acting director of the Mossad – for the first and only time in the history of Israel.

A majority of self-styled secularists led the State of Israel, fought in its armies, tilled its soil. In the eyes of many secular and religious Jews, any state so obviously brought into being by human activity, a state often not observant of Jewish traditional practices, a state manifestly vulnerable and full of flaws, could not define itself as a