Ofer Aderet

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

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

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.

In 'How and When I Stopped Being Jewish,' author and professor Shlomo Sand argues that there is no such thing as a secular Jew.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Dismissing suggestion by an archaeologist that some Cologne residents may be less than proud of city's Jewish heritage, Mayor Jurgen Roters says opposition to museum's construction stems primarily from budgetary and administrative concerns.

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.

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

Attending Poland's official ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Shai Piron speaks of 'deep commitment to peace and human dignity' that motivated Warsaw Ghetto uprising fighters.

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.

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.

Ran Hedvati is being officially honored this Independence Day for his role in preserving the machines that helped build the State of Israel – and he has a story for every one of them.

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.

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

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.'