Gen. Sir Nick Carter (left) is greeted by IDF Chief of Staff Avi Kochavi in Israel, April 2019. Photo by: IDF Spokesperson Unit.

NILI – an acronym for the biblical Hebrew phrase, Netzakh Yisrael Lo Yeshaker, meaning ‘The Eternal One of Israel will not Lie’ – was the World War One Jewish spy network in Palestine. In this ...

Reverend William Hechler. Photo courtesy from David Pileggi, Christ Church Jerusalem Archives.

The gates of a Jewish refugee camp in Cyprus are eventually opened by British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, 1 January 1949. Photo by GPO, Israel.

Fathom Deputy Editor Samuel Nurding spoke with Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy about Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People. The book tells the life story of Sharansky and sets out the evolution of ...

Ernest Bevin (left) in 1942. Photo by Howard Coster, National Portrait Gallery. Creative Commons.

Derek Penslar reviews Dan Diner’s, Ein anderer Krieg: Das jüdische Palästina und der Zweite Weltkrieg – 1935 – 1942 (A Different War: Jewish Palestine and the Second World War) (Deutsche ...

Olga Kirschbaum issues a stark warning: the thesis that Zionism is a source of evil is a deadly distraction for all people ...

Liam Hoare launches a new Fathom series in which our writers re-read classic texts. Past Continuous, Yaakov Shabtai’s novel of three friends set in 1970s Tel Aviv, was first published in Hebrew in ...

Professor Asher Susser spoke with Fathom Deputy Editor Samuel Nurding on the eve of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty to assess what has been achieved in the 40 years since its signing. Susser also ...

Ernest Bevin, 1940. National Portrait Gallery. Creative Commons.

Photo by Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Creative Commons licence.