Israel has made a critical mistake over the years in not being more explicit about its unique kind of democracy, writes author and scholar Daniel Gordis.

It took David Ben-Gurion about 16 minutes to read aloud the Declaration of Independence. Learn this and other facts about Israel's most foundational text in our new primer.

American and Israeli Jews must acknowledge how different they are to begin the sacred work of healing their relationship and ensuring that the Jewish people remains one people,…

Begin only features as a minor player in Anita Shapira’s biography of David Ben-Gurion, but Israel's first leader is a major foil in Daniel Gordis’s "Menachem Begin: The…