“In the Middle East,” the Israeli general and politician Ehud Barak once said, “a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.” Barak would know. He was Israel’s prime minister in 2000, a year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As modern warfare evolves, one lesson is becoming increasingly clear: resilience is not just a personal trait or moral principle.

"It all began almost by accident,” Zalman Shoval says, leaning back with the half-smile of a man who has told and lived this story many times before. “Like many things in life.” At age 95, Shoval, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s so often said that it’s become a cliché in modern politics: Israel has been the Jewish homeland for 3,000 years or more.

Relatives visit graves in Nir Oz, Israel, on Monday of family members murdered by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post) Rarely in the history of modern Israel did the Jewish ...

Ian Oxnevad is a senior fellow in foreign affairs and security studies at the National Association of Scholars. Last month, Israel’s war for survival united the world’s Christian denominations. In ...

A major gift from the Jan Koum Family Foundation endowed the Jan Koum Israel Studies Program this year, enabling the program to launch activities since its inauguration celebration on Nov. 17. The ...

It’s so often said that it’s become a cliché in modern politics: Israel has been the Jewish homeland for 3,000 years or more. Modern Israel, they say, is heir to the ancient kingdom of David and ...