Kibbutz Zikim renovated and repurposed 100-year-old Beit Alami – named after the Arab family who lived there until 1947 – but retained the building's name for its new visitors center
The Defense Ministry's secretive security department hid evidence of massacres and forced expulsions of Palestinians in 1948 only to 'ensure information security,' former director says following Haaretz report
Aya Gov created the 'Archive of Plunder' as her final project at the Bezalel Academy of the Arts after discovering that her grandfather came into possession of such objects during the war
Defense Ministry officials apparently hope their actions will raise doubts about the conclusions and credibility of various scholars, says renowned historian
Since early last decade, Defense Ministry teams have scoured local archives and removed troves of historic documents to conceal proof of the Nakba
Documentarian Juna Suleiman spent seven years recording her octagenarian grandma for ‘Mussolini’s Sister,’ a touching, funny and sad film about gender and aging
Tel Aviv University says holding lecture by Hadash lawmaker Ofer Cassif is 'not possible,' invoking so-called Nakba Law which allows state to limit funds to institutions treating Independence Day as day of mourning
Thousands of Palestinians expected to participate in demonstrations along Israeli border, as Hamas officials await remainder of Qatari aid money
Labour head Jeremy Corbyn offered his support to the demonstrators in a statement: 'We cannot stand by or stay silent at the continuing denial of rights and justice to the Palestinian people'
The village of Khubbayza was destroyed in the 1948 war and remains unpopulated. This is the 22nd year that a 'march of return' is held on Israel's Independence Day
The clear and present danger isn’t from Iran or Palestinians but rather, as Walt Kelly noted: 'I have met the enemy, and he is us'
Shmuel Lahis shot all remaining men in a Lebanese village and then blew up the house ‘to make a mass grave.' He received one year in prison, a punishment later revoked, was pardoned by the president and went on to head the Jewish Agency
This generation didn’t despair, even though its surroundings radiated nothing but despair: in the words of the poet Mahmoud Darwish, they never stopped 'fighting and sowing hope'
An open letter to the Egyptian soccer player from a Palestinian citizen of Israel
Two exhibitions, in Haifa and Jerusalem, relate to the Nakba but somehow manage to ignore the Palestinian narrative
Culture Minister Miri Regev is upset an exhibition about censorship and freedom of expression includes an artwork that references the poem that landed a Palestinian poet in prison
The government is moving forward with its brutish attempt to gag artists and cultural institutions that provide vital criticism
Culture Minister Miri Regev has been trying to receive an authority similar to the one the finance minister has, to retroactively suspend funding for cultural activities that 'contravene the principles of the state.' Now she has the finance minister on her side
The Ministry of Culture and Sports under Miri Regev filed 17 of these requests, with 14 other requests regarding the enforcement of the 'Boycott Law' going unheeded by the Treasury’s legal adviser
The Nakba Law allows the Finance Ministry to cut state funding to any institution that publicly observes Israel’s Independence Day as a day of mourning
Regev calls on Kahlon to withhold funds from gov't-supported institutions if they hold events which deny Israel’s right to exist: 'For how long will you give a pass to those who tar Israel's image as a cruel and racist country?'
Signs commemorating the Nakba could 'seriously disrupt public order,' according to a top French government official
As far as the Palestinians are concerned, if they leave the refugee camps or rebuild Gaza, their struggle will die. To advance the national cause – a full return to their land – the more they preserve the bad the better
We Israelis must face our part in the physical expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 and its symbolic weight for Palestinians today. It may bite, but it won’t destroy us
The fear of the Nakba lies in the inability to reconcile the conflict between the yearning for a pure Jewish nation-state and the realization that such a state can never exist
The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee of the Israeli Arab community has declared a general strike for Wednesday, which includes public schools in Arab majority areas
The Health Ministry in Ramallah noted that 27 people were injured in the West Bank, and one is in grave condition. Two Israeli border police officers were also injured during the protests
Over 770 wounded from live gunfire ■ 40,000 protesting at border ■ Israeli army bombs seven Hamas targets ■ U.S. embassy officially opens in Jerusalem ■ Israel to open Kerem Shalom crossing for transport of goods