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Menachem Begin: A New LifeFriday, May 3, 2013 by Asaf Romirowsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Ensuring that another Holocaust would never take place was Menachem Begin's paramount concern, even when he was Prime Minister of Israel, pursuing Yasir Arafat in his Beirut bunker.
Alfred Nobel’s Other MistakeFriday, July 20, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In a world obsessed with awards, the Nobel Prizes stand out as something special. As prizes proliferate, Nobel laureates still attain global respect in their fields and celebrity beyond, as well as, nowadays, a prize of over a million dollars.
On the Eve of the Six-Day WarForty-five years ago today, on June 4, 1967, Israel and the Jewish world were in suspense. Today, we recall the Six-Day War as a stunning martial victory by the Jewish state; but on the war's eve, this outcome was wholly unforeseeable. Indeed, the odds appeared firmly stacked against Israel.
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Yasir Arafat Poisoned? Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Volkhard Windfuhr, Spiegel. Eight years after Arafat’s mysterious death in Paris, the French have begun a criminal investigation. Who poisoned him? The Israelis? Or, with outside help, his Palestinian comrades?