“When someone dies,” Gal Zaychner writes, “there are all kinds of things you have to take care of: You have…
In a series of heartwrenching essays, told over the course of two episodes, Gal Zaychner returns to the most painful…
Meir Argov was born as Meir Grabovsky in Rîbnița, Bessarabia, in 1905. At the age of 14, while his family…
Herzl Rosenblum was born in 1903, a year before the death of his namesake, Theodor Herzl, who – of course…
Rabbi Yitzhak Meir Levin was – in every way possible – Hasidic royalty. He was born in 1893 in the…
Moshe Kolodny, who’d later on change his surname to Kol, was born in 1911 in the heart of the Pale…
Pinchas Rosen, or Felix Rosenblüth (as he was called in his youth), was born in Berlin in 1887, and grew…
Sa’adia Kobashi was born in the small village of Khubesh, Yemen, in 1902. During Passover of 1909 his father Yihye,…
Daniel Auster was born in Galicia in 1893 and earned a law degree from the University of Vienna before making…
David Remez was born as Moshe David Drabkin in what is today Belarus, in 1886. As a boy he studied…
“Signed, Sealed, Delivered?” introduces us to all 37 signatories of Israel’s Declaration of Independence, through the recollections of their closest…
Rachel Cohen-Kagan was born in 1888 into the Zionist Lubarsky family of Odessa. Her father, Ya’akov, was one of the…
Mordechai Schattner was born in Eastern Galicia – then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire – in 1904. He was a…
Warhaftig was an important leader of the Mafdal – the National Religious Party. During WWII, he saved the lives of…
David Ben-Gurion, perhaps the most influential Jewish leader since Moses, needs no introduction. Here though are a few facts about…
“Signed, Sealed, Delivered?” looks at our founding moral compass – Megillat Ha’Atzmaut, or the Declaration of Independence. Through the descendants…
Israel’s Declaration of Independence was forged amid strife and turmoil. It was a birth that, everyone knew, would trigger war….
David taught his son, Mishy, life’s most fundamental lesson – one that is also the deep premise of Israel Story:…
On June 29, 2007, Apple released its first iPhone. Less than sixteen years later, our world is an entirely altered…
These are – it goes without saying – tumultuous times here in Israel. But especially now, we believe it is…