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Musician Ariel Zilber Is Born

Musician Ariel Zilber Is Born

September 22, 1943 Singer-songwriter Ariel Zilber is born in Tel Aviv to Bracha Zefira, a singer, and Ben Ami Zilber, a violinist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He attends a nonreligious boarding school on Kibbutz…

Today in Israeli History|September 22, 1943
Oslo II Agreement Between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, 1995

Oslo II Agreement Between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, 1995

This was the fourth Palestinian-Israeli Agreement signed that broadly extended Palestinian self-governing arrangements throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. No Palestinian state was promised, essentially only putting substance on the Palestinian autonomy agreement that Menachem Begin signed with Anwar Sadat in the 1978 Camp David Accords.

Documents and Sources|September 28, 1995
“Remember October 7th,” Rubio and Netanyahu Emphasize, September 2025

“Remember October 7th,” Rubio and Netanyahu Emphasize, September 2025

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Israel was primarily prompted by American criticism of Israel’s airstrike on September 9, targeting Hamas leaders in Doha, the Qatari capital. Rubio arrived in Doha at the end of an emergency Arab-Islamic leaders summit that roundly condemned Israel’s attack. In Doha, he affirmed US interests in Qatar, with particular knowledge that it hosts America’s largest air base in the Middle East and the forward headquarters for the US Central Command. The US was seeking to balance its relationship with Israel and Qatar.

Documents and Sources|September 15, 2025
#150 Contemporary Readings August 2025

#150 Contemporary Readings August 2025

Maya Rezak and Ken Stein, September 1,  2025 Oded Ailam, “Make An Offer They Can’t Refuse,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, August 27, 2025.  Alchalta, “How Israel Loses the Narrative War, & the Moral Confusion…

Contemporary Readings|September 2, 2025
Saudi King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud to President Truman, 1947

Saudi King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud to President Truman, 1947

No document better reveals the hostility which most Arab leaders and Arab states had in 1947 for Zionism and for a possible Jewish state. The Saudi King notes “that US support for Zionists in Palestine is an unfriendly act directed against the Arabs.” The King’s views were totally supported by US State Department officials including Loy Henderson and George Kennan who advocated strongly against Truman’s support of a Jewish state.

החלטת סן רמו – אפריל 25, 1920

החלטת סן רמו – אפריל 25, 1920

1 באפריל 1920, ועידת סן רמו באיטליה קבעה את הגבולות של השטחים שבעלות הברית כבשו במלחמת העולם הראשונה: אלו כללו הגבולות לקיום הפוליטי של סוריה, לבנון, עיראק, ופלסטין כמדינות עצמאיות זמנית. ההחלטה המסכמת של הועידה…

Documents and Sources|April 25, 1920
#149 Contemporary Readings July 2025

#149 Contemporary Readings July 2025

Maya Rezak and Ken Stein, July 31, 2025 Videos Ron Dermer, Minister of Diaspora Affairs, “Review of the Hamas-Israel War: Part 1” Ron Dermer, Minister of Diaspora Affairs, “Review of the Hamas-Israel War: Part 2”…

Contemporary Readings|July 31, 2025
Yigal Allon, Lessons From the War of Independence, 1952

Yigal Allon, Lessons From the War of Independence, 1952

With crisp analysis, Haganah Commander Yigal Allon, later a Prime Minister of Israel attributes Israel’s successes to multiple factors including the absence of a centralized Arab command, limited Arab military training, underestimating the potential fighting capabilities of local Arabs, and Israel’s success in integrating its citizens into the war effort.

British Report Reveals “Separatist” Jewish Education System in Palestine, 1946

British Report Reveals “Separatist” Jewish Education System in Palestine, 1946

With the British spending local revenue on strategic needs — ports, roads and communication systems — scant funds were devoted to education in the Mandate. Already baked into diasporic habits, the Jewish community raced forward in educating its own in Palestine to inculcate penetrating attachments to Palestine as the Jewish national home. Arab youth literacy ran in place, with separatist education contributing mightily to communal divisions, as occurred simultaneously in the economic and geospatial spheres.