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Today in Israeli History: Two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack an El Al flight with grenades and guns during a layover in Athens between Tel Aviv and New York.

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December 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today in Israeli History: Geulah Cohen is born in Tel Aviv. She fights with the Irgun and Lehi. She is elected to the Knesset with Likud in 1973, then breaks away to form a nationalist party that becomes Tehiya (“Revival”).

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December 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
An Arab Christian from the Galilee, Mira Awad is a celebrated singer and actress. She made history in 2009 as the first Arab and Christian to represent Israel at Eurovision.

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December 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Today in Israeli History: Israel uses a fake shipping company as a front to purchase five military boats and sneaks them out of Cherbourg, France, defeating a French arms embargo.

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December 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today in Israeli History: Avraham Stern, one of the most wanted members of the Jewish underground in Palestine, is born in Poland. He forms Lehi, known as the Stern Gang, to fight the British in 1940.

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December 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Jewish National Fund helped build the Jewish national home by raising money worldwide to buy and develop land. By 1948, the JNF held more than half the Jewish acquired land, shaping rural communities and growing cities.

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December 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Today in Israeli History: A cable to the State Department from a U.S. envoy recounts British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin’s concerns about the likelihood of Israel becoming a Communist state.

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December 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today in Israeli History: Assaf Gavron, a writer and musician, is born in Arad. He publishes his debut novel, “Ice,” in 1997 and is a singer-songwriter for the band The Foot and Mouth.

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December 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today in Israeli History: New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conductor Arturo Toscanini arrives to conduct the opening performance of the Palestine Philharmonic six days later.

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December 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Hebrew played a vital role in the Zionist movement, serving as a shared language that united people across the Diaspora. At the same time, the movement helped revitalize Hebrew as a modern language.

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December 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Today in Israeli History: Avraham B. Yehoshua, one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers, is born in Jerusalem. He leads a new wave of Israeli writers with novels including “The Lover,” “Mr. Mani” and “The Late Divorce.”

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December 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Today in Israeli History: A special convention of Jewish agricultural workers in Ottoman Palestine approves a proposal to create Kupat Holim Clalit (General Sick Fund) to handle immigrants’ health care.

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December 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Israel’s Holy Land has long inspired the Christian world. Today, 190,000 Christians call Israel home, linking faith, history and modern society in a living legacy.

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December 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Today in Israeli History: U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger tells Iraqi Foreign Minister Saddun Hammadi that the United States is willing to see Israel “reduce its size to historical proportions.”

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December 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The U.S. and Israel share a complex, enduring partnership shaped by strategic cooperation, shared values, deep military and economic ties, and strong connections between Jewish communities.

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December 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Today in Israeli History: Israeli peace activist Abie Nathan arrives in Ethiopia with $300,000 worth of supplies, funded through global Jewish giving, to relieve a drought-driven famine.

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December 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Today in Israeli History: San Francisco-based venture fund Aqua International Partners buys a 25% stake in Israeli bottled water company Mayanot Eden (Eden Springs) for $47.5 million.

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December 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today in Israeli History: The Knesset votes 63-21 in favor of surprise legislation to annex the Golan Heights, captured in 1967, and apply Israeli law there in place of military administration.

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December 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today in Israeli History: After Nazi Adolf Eichmann is convicted of 15 Holocaust-related charges, prosecutor Gideon Hausner successfully argues for Israel’s only death sentence.

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December 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Prepared in 1947, the British report on the Palestine Mandate offered a balanced view of changes over 27 years and was criticized by both Arab and Jewish political elites.

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December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Today in Israeli History: The General Federation of Jewish Labor, known as the Histadrut, is founded in Haifa to serve as an independent trade union for Jewish workers in Palestine.

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December 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The proposed 1948 Israeli Constitution aimed to balance democracy, rights and religion, but disputes over its principles led to the adoption of Basic Laws instead.

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December 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Today in Israeli History: Arthur Creech Jones, the British colonial secretary, opens a Commons debate about Palestine by revealing that the British Mandate will end May 15, 1948.

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December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today in Israeli History: Hoping to win a national vote of confidence, Prime Minister Ehud Barak resigns and calls a special election, which he loses badly to Ariel Sharon.

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December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A look at how the 1936-39 Palestinian uprising compares with the First Intifada shows shared roots in national identity but major differences shaped by new politics, shifting leadership and a changing regional landscape.

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December 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM