Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the State of Israel this month is very personal for 87-year-old Dov Leumi of Hallandale Beach, who was a lieutenant in the Israeli army during the 1948 War of ...

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — As a 4-year-old, Ghalia Abu Moteir was driven to live in a tent in Khan Younis after her family fled their home in what’s now Israel, escaping advancing Israeli forces.

At age 89, Palestinian Liga Jabr remembers how conflict uprooted her family when she was a child. Now, 75 years later, she says the war raging in Gaza is even worse. "This war is harder than any of ...

Most Gaza residents are the descendants of Palestinian refugees driven to the enclave in a 1948 war. They harbor a deep fear of being uprooted... Editor's Note: NPR's Greg Myre was based in Jerusalem ...

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi threatened Wednesday to cut funding from Israel’s public broadcaster Kan if it airs a documentary depicting atrocities committed by the IDF during the 1948 War of ...

This war marked the foundational moment for the establishment of the State of Israel, but it also represented a profound, ongoing tragedy for the Palestinian people, leaving strategic, political, and ...

Many see the creation of the modern-day state of Israel as part of a historical narrative, in which Israeli independence was a reaction to the Holocaust. “The catastrophe which recently befell the ...

(JTA) – The story of Israel’s 1948 war for independence is told through the eyes of one kibbutz in “Image of Victory,” a new Netflix film that’s being billed as the most expensive Israeli movie ever.

A specter is haunting the prospective Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations—the specter of the Nakba. The literal meaning of the Arabic word is “disaster”; but in its current, expansive usage, it ...

Few studies and historical texts, especially in Arabic, discuss the battles fought over the coastal city of Jaffa during the 1947 - 1949 War. But alongside these few works, there do exist memoirs and ...