Ultra-Orthodox Israelis, exempt for decades from military service, are now being drafted. Their rage is dividing Israel and threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. By Elisabeth ...

Americans in search of hope and optimism amid Israel’s multifront war as well as surging antisemitism on the home front can find it on Dec. 8 through “Ben-Gurion Day in the USA,” Americans for ...

Gurion’s 1941 British visa application lists him as Palestinian citizen— A complex legacy explored - The Maravi Post ...

A history of modern Israeli politics tells the story of leaders who won’t exit the stage and parties that split and split ...

Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illluminating, edifying and sometimes ...

David Ben-Gurion left the United States today after completing a strenuous 19-day cross-country visit at the invitation of the United Jewish Appeal, in which he sought aid for absorbing Israel’s ...

Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, had a twin brother who died soon after birth, according to a document recently found in Plonsk, Poland, his native town. The document — a birth ...

For the first time ever, Ben-Gurion Day, an annual holiday in Israel, will be celebrated in the United States on November 30, 2022. Led by Americans for Ben-Gurion University (A4BGU), the inaugural ...

In “Ben-Gurion on Judicial Reform” (Politics & Ideas, Aug. 2), William Galston quotes Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion’s 1949 statement that it was impossible to “delegate authority to the ...

David Ben-Gurion, 79, has been of two minds about Levi Eshkol, 70. First, he named him heir to Israel and the Mapai Party. Then, two years later, he proclaimed Eshkol “unfit to govern,” and announced ...

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Wikimedia Commons/David Saranga, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs via JNS.org) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has launched a $1 billion fundraising campaign ...