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‘The story of Tel Hai is my life’s mission,” said Yair Belachovsky, chairperson and founder of Tel Hai…

Last year I published a book that tells the story of a young girl, Martha Braun, who was…

Berkshire (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After the massive US and Israeli attacks on Iran on 28…

One of the effects of the massacre on Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023 and the war…

On May 14, 1948, in a modest hall in Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion stood before…

In an age of rising Islamist extremism and strategic uncertainty, abandoning the Middle East’s only democracy is not…

Rabbi Dennis C. Sasso(This serves as a sequel to my previous Times of Israel Blog (May 3, 2026),…

I once heard someone say that true love is sharing your popcorn. Not offering a few pieces out…

There is a quiet but consequential and long overdue intellectual correction underway in contemporary Jewish thought: the rediscovery…

Hagai Segal, a veteran journalist and former editor of Makor Rishon, recently ignited a firestorm with a sharply…

How Evyatar Cohen is reconnecting U.S. communities to the land, language, and legacy of the Bible Evyatar Cohen…

Israel Didn’t “Recognize Palestinians.” It Recognized a Negotiating Partner. A familiar claim keeps resurfacing: “Israel itself recognized the…

Reviving Tel Hai: Yair Belachovsky’s mission to preserve a defining legacy