In the deserts of southern Israel, tucked away near the town of Dimona, lies one of the world’s worst-kept secrets—an undeclared nuclear weapons program that has shaped Middle Eastern geopolitics for over half a century.Israel neither confirms nor denies its nuclear arsenal. It has never conducted a public test, never declared its warheads, and has […]
Commemorated both in Israel and in Jewish communities around the world, this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day started with a ceremony on Wednesday evening at Yad Vashem, the world’s most well-known Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.The ceremony took place amid the ongoing war in Gaza, and with the political situation in Israel threatening to escalate into an […]
Eighty years since the end of World War II, Mayor Femke Halsema of Amsterdam apologized on Thursday for the city’s role in the persecution of its Jewish residents during the Holocaust, in a rare acknowledgment of a collective moral failure by a city leader. “Amsterdam’s’ government was, when it mattered, not heroic, not determined and […]
