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Rachel Cohen-Kagan was one of the most prominent activists for the advancement of women’s rights in the young State of Israel. Her efforts led to her being among the signatories of the Declaration of Independence
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In 1953, Dr. Jonas Edward Salk announced the encouraging results of his experiments with a new drug in the battle against polio, but he would soon meet resistance…
Fleeing a Galilean plague, a handful of the Vilna Gaon’s students rewrote the holy city’s history
Cherry tomatoes, soup mandels and penalty shoot-outs – all Israeli inventions! This is the story of the most significant Israeli contribution to the beautiful game
Diaspora
Curing diseases, restoring organs, revitalizing the body and even resurrecting the dead! Rare caricatures from 19th-century England prove that strange folk remedies have been with us for a while…
Coronavirus? We’ve seen it all before… A look at several plagues (both real and fictional) that were commemorated in literature over the years
A look back at the disaster which befell the city of Brody in 1867, and how Europe’s Jews came together to help the victims
These Jewish soldiers took part in the liberation of Europe from the clutches of Nazi Germany
In a newly surfaced letter, the dictionary’s founding editor wrote that it was not thought likely to be more than a “passing nonce-word…”
How did the only original written copy of “HaTikvah” arrive at the National Library of Israel? And how does it differ from the version we know today?
In July 1943, in the midst of World War II, notable members of the “yishuv” gathered in secret in a Tel Aviv suburb, to proclaim the establishment of a Jewish government in the Land of Israel
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