Hundreds of Jewish women married Arab men in the Mandate period. They were branded enemies of Israel, and to this day their families find it hard to talk about them. No wonder, then, that these stories were buried in the archives and are only now coming to light
Batya Asher's mother died when an Egyptian plane bombed their kibbutz in 1948. 45 years later her son was killed in Lebanon. 'The day I buried him, I said I’d choose life, although I didn’t know what that meant,' she says ■ Israel Memorial Day 2021
Archival documents reveal the story of a Jewish child who was forced to behave like a dog in Auschwitz, at the order of the camp's notorious doctor. A contemporary researcher is determined to discover what became of that boy
Releasing such materials could reveal the Shin Bet's methods and potentially threat 'national security,' the court said
Albert Pierrepoint, whose task included executing the 'Beast of Belsen' and the 'blonde who beat inmates to death,' wrote after the Holocaust that the death penalty solves nothing
Documents released as part new documentary reveal the CIA and West German intelligence services shielded former head of Gestapo in Vienna, despite his involvement in crimes against humanity during the Holocaust
Holocaust survivor Eva Livne surprised her family with a heartbreaking diary she wrote starting in the concentration camp and ending in a Kibbutz: I survived. I went through hell
Why are we not allowed to know what Golda Meir said during the Yom Kippur War? What damage will be caused by publishing photographs from the Deir Yassin massacre? There are mounting requests to the courts to allow the publication of historical documents which Israel continues to classify as top secret
Following the deaths of Ruth Dayan and Rachel Dayan, a 1935 marriage license was found that proves the defense minister had been married to a third woman
Some ministries have not been handing over any documents at all
An Israeli historian demands to know why a gag order was placed on the identity of Shin Bet security agents involved with the case that rocked Israel: the assassination of Rudolf Kasztner
Israelis tell Haaretz why they will vote differently in next week's election
110 years later, Alexander Brekner's diary epitomizes the experience of Jewish pioneers in pre-state Israel
The debate began when Israel was established, and there was no legal framework for defining who was a citizen, Jewish or not
Two Germans are pressing Berlin to save the grave of decorated World War I pilot Wilhelm Frankl from future destruction by declaring it a ‘grave of honor’ – but the city is refusing
Katarzyna Markusz was investigated after complaint from government-funded Polish organization over assertion that ‘Polish participation in the Holocaust is a historical fact’
The branch director, Tomasz Greniuch, called his conduct ‘a mistake,’ but critics have found other evidence which could point to a far-right past
The historic decision grants 162 million shekels for the families of 1,000 children who went missing in the state’s early years, but activists say a more comprehensive plan is needed
The bill sets a $40,000 fine for 'knowingly disseminating false information' about the Soviet Union’s actions during the war
This week’s Polish court ruling in favor of the family of a wartime village mayor is just one more sign that politicians and courts need to be excluded from involvement in scholarly historical debates
The verdict handed down by a Warsaw court this week ruled that two senior historians must apologize for allegations in their book that a Polish mayor had turned Jews over to the Nazis
The Holocaust researchers, who have been victims of a smear campaign in Polish media, must publish an apology after niece of the man, a mayor during World War II, sued them
Governmental agency posted about real cases of abduction of Polish children by the Nazis, but it has also been accused of increasingly focusing on crimes against Poles to placate a right-wing agenda to obfuscate Polish complicity in the Holocaust
Polish chief rabbi slams probe into journalist who wrote of Poland's complicity in Holocaust: 'The state should not be a side in the historical debate, and especially it should not support historical untruths or hatred'
Profs. Joan Steitz , Lynne Maquat and Adrian Krainer are being awarded the prestigious prize for discovering the dominant role played by RNA in cellular protein production
‘How can you be offended by the truth?’ asks Katarzyna Markusz, after being asked by Warsaw police if an article she wrote last October was intended to slander the good name of the nation
In preliminary phase of trial, court will have to decide whether Irmgard P., who was a minor when she served in the Stutthof concentration camp, can bear responsibility for the crimes committed outside her office
'I have no regrets when I think back. I don’t think about the little things, but the bigger picture'
In a letter posted on Twitter, Ambassador Marek Magierowski writes that freedom of research should not override the right to defend someone's reputation