General Sir Edmund Allenby entering the Holy City of Jerusalem on foot On the first day of the Jewish feast of Hanukkah in December 1917, the Battle of Jerusalem resulted in the city of Jerusalem ...

Prof. Micha Sharir is awarded the EMET Prize for his pioneering work in computational geometry and its applications and for his fundamental contributions in the fields of Algorithmic Motion Planning ...

The Jewish state is marking this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day against the backdrop of Iran’s repeated threats to wipe Israel off the map as Tehran steps up its drive to acquire nuclear weapons. At ...

Italian plane and crew during World War II (from century-of-flight.net) In 1940 and 1941 there were a number of air-raids on Haifa and Tel-Aviv by the Italian air-force. On September, 1940, a ...

Hear the sounds of gunfire, the footsteps of Israeli soldiers as they draw closer and closer and as General Uzi Narkiss instructs them and asks to be shown where the Western Wall stands. Hear ...

Prof. Shlomo Giora Shoham is awarded the Emet Prize for his contribution to the formulation of original and profound ideas in varied fields of criminology and penal theory, and for setting himself the ...

From the Golden Age of Discovery to the Inquisition, Portuguese Jewry went from the heights of wealth and success to the depths of anguish and despair. The history of Portugese Jewry is like that of ...

PM Bennett speaking at IAF pilots’ graduation ceremony. Just one day after foreign reports of a mysterious attack on an Iranian plant that produces centrifuges for enriched uranium, Israel’s new Prime ...

Yale University’s renowned law professor Eugene Rostow once applied his skill to the vexing issue of Israel’s right to build West Bank settlements in the wake of the Six-Day War in 1967. In light of ...

It could be a major breakthrough – at Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem, five COVID-19 patients in the ICU have made a miraculous recovery. Two were admitted in ‘critical’ condition while the other three ...

IsraCast chooses this literary quotation as the most apt reaction of many Israeli legal experts, as well as disgruntled voters, who are now flabbergasted by their High Court’s ruling. To wit: the ...

On the anniversary of the death of Israels first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, IsraCast brings you Ben-Gurion’s biography, two audio interviews from Canadian radio stations in the year 1961, and a ...