Moshe Dayan
The ballroom of the Hilton Hotel was packed to capacity. Three thousand delegates and guests attended the banquet of the United Jewish Appeal’s annual conference at which Moshe Dayan, Israel’s […]
Dramatic Episode From Six Day War
Shortly after the Six Day War, Col. Mordechai Gur, who commanded the paratroop brigade with liberated the Old City of Jerusalem was appointed military advisor of the Israeli delegation in […]
Rabbi David Cohen, the Nazir
Soon after Israeli troops entered the Old City of Jerusalem, an army jeep was sent to the Kerem Abraham Quarter of the modern city to take Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook […]
Simha Holzberg, Z”L ‘The Father of the Wounded Soldiers’
Simcha Holzberg, who was known throughout Israel as “the father of the wounded,” because of his care for and devotion to the wounded and disabled soldiers of the Israel Defense […]
Rosh Hashana with the Army of Israel (In the War of Liberation)
In the beginning of the autumn of 1948, much of the land which constituted the pre-Six Day War Jewish State was still in Arab hands. Part of Upper Galilee was […]