"Judo is my everything," says Nelson-Levy, who has recently won a gold medal at the European Judo Championships in Bulgaria – becoming the second Israeli female judoka to ever do so – and is now preparing to take the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris by storm.
Since its ostensible establishment in 1967 by then-IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan, the state of affairs on the mount has been in near-constant flux.
Arresting the Gilboa Prison fugitives, dealing with the media during the Diezengoff attack, and rivalries with Sayeret Matkal – in a rare interview, the head of the National Counterterrorism Unit says he dreams of making the Israeli unit the top force in the world in technology and intelligence.
The Marcus National Blood Services Center in Ramla in a non-combustible steel and concrete facility complete with blast doors and airlocks, designed to weather missile, chemical, and biological attacks.
Head of the IDF's Military Intelligence Research Division Brig. Gen. Amir Sa'ar talks to Israel Hayom and shares some of what lies behind recent actions by Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.
The firebrand politician whose daughter, Marine, is again in the running for president, says his reputation has been besmirched by his rivals. “Just because I am right-wing and a nationalist, I’ve been accused of being an antisemite. This is utterly untrue. Nothing in my life shows or expresses antisemitism,” he insists.
A series of work meetings allowed me to take a journey through the history of the Jews of Sicily. From the 1492 decree of expulsion in the archives of Palermo to the building of a new synagogue, historical events come full circle. If we connect the Hebrew past to the Sicilian present, we might be able to create a better future. A travel diary by Israel’s ambassador to Italy.
Israel outlawed the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement seven years ago, but has not been able to put a stop to its activity or its influence on large sectors of the Arab Israeli public.
The events that came along with the operation against Hamas in Gaza taught Israel an important lesson – that the “different” fronts cannot be separated, and must be addressed before a crisis erupts.
A new book reveals how an Irgun bombing burned the British Mandate land registration documents that would have proved Jewish ownership of the site, and the surprising coexistence between Jewish and Arab residents before the 1948 War of Independence.
