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Did John F. Kennedy admire Hitler?

'At first glance, one could get the impression that Kennedy endorsed fascism,' Spiegel Online writes, referring to a new book out in German.

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200 years after his birth, the composer's family and fans remain split on his legacy.

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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi wanted to save money to integrate immigrants and build up Israel's defense, but a Knesset committee wouldn't hear of it.

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British officers inspect the Wall after the1936 riots.
Prayers, notes and controversy: How a wall became the Western wall

While sources describe the wall surrounding the ancient Temple in Jerusalem as being a site of pilgrimage and prayer for hundreds of years, only relatively recently did its western section evolve into the sanctified focal point of worship and national renewal that it is today

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Enlightenment at a red traffic light

Wolf Prize laureate Prof. George Daniel Mostow made his greatest scientific breakthrough while driving.

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Bezalel
Jerusalem of old: A rare restored film captures life 100 years ago in the Holy City

The film, produced for the 11th Zionist Congress in Vienna, shows Bezalel students, the train ride from Jaffa, and much, much more.

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Lipschis' SS Card
Germany arrests 93-year-old alleged former Auschwitz guard

Police investigators are convinced that Hans Lipschis aided and abetted murder while serving as a guard for the Nazis at Auschwitz from 1941 to 1945.

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Commemorating 70 years to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, on April 19, 2013.
'Let us find the courage to ask': 70 years on, Poland takes a new look at its past

Poland is not just the Holocaust and Warsaw is not just the ghetto, yet more and more young Poles seem intrigued to learn about their country's Jewish past.

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Herzl’s letter to American Zionist Federation President Richard Gottheil, February 25, 1901.
When the Jewish lobby was young

On the occasion of the 153rd birthday of Theodor Herzl, a letter he wrote to an American colleague to help spur a U.S. government protest of Ottoman policy in Palestine is on show for the first time.

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May Day parade
Israel's May Day marches of yesteryear

Photos from the IDF Archives show May Day parades before and after the state’s establishment.

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Pessah Grupper.
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Grupper served as head of the Atlit Local Council before going on to serve in the Knesset, representing Likud, for 18 years including one year as minister of agriculture in the Shamir government.

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Jewish State ship
British Mandate boss said Jews were 'like Nazis,’ records show

Newly published records show High Commissioner mistakenly believed 'all the ingredients of a successful truce were present’ before British departure.

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Germany and Israel.
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A look back at nearly a half-century since official ties were established between Germany and Israel reveals a history of pain, irony, indignation - but also many demonstrations of goodwill.

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Lipschis' SS Card
Elderly German suspected of being a Nazi guard: I was only a cook at Auschwitz

Hans Lipschis, 93, is one of 50 elderly Germans under investigation for alleged Nazi war crimes

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Cologne
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Rachel Bluwstein.
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In honor of the 82nd anniversary of Rachel the Poet's death, the Israel State Archives publishes a few dozen of the letters she wrote to her friend, confessing suffering and longing.

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Laying wreath to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw
Hundreds flock for first glimpse inside Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Museum is inaugurated on 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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Warsaw Ghetto
In Poland, a well-meaning commemoration of Warsaw Ghetto uprising

Poland clearly acted properly in seeking to commemorate this seminal event. But it's not clear that a mass festival, a grand public relations exercise, was the appropriate way to do so.

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One of the drafts of the Balfour Declaration.
Balfour Declaration to be displayed in Tel Aviv’s Independence Hall

Israel is in talks to borrow the document, which embodies a watershed moment in Zionism's diplomatic efforts to establish modern state, from the British National Library.

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A boy holding an Israeli flag in Jerusalem.
Israeli population exceeds 8 million on eve of Independence Day

Jewish-Israelis make up about 75 percent of the population; 70 percent of them are native-born. In the past year, approximately 19,500 immigrants arrived and the country's birthrate came in at 1.8 percent.

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Previously classified documents reveal the fledgling state's railway workers' perceived role in Israel's struggle for military and economic independence.

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Israeli songwriter Naomi Shemer’s letter exchange with Yom Kippur war widow discovered 40 years later

Heartrending letters were exchanged between a woman whose husband died in battle and the late musician and songwriter Naomi Shemer, hailed as the 'first lady of Israeli song and poetry.'

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