Yom Haatzmaut

May 1, 2026, 1:51 pm

Etgar brings more than 100 pupils together for flagship Israel Challenge

Celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut, teams from Yavneh College, Immanuel College and City of London win at country’s biggest Jewish primary school quiz

By Michelle Rosenberg

April 21, 2026, 7:54 am

Before the celebration of Yom Ha’atzmaut, the cost of Yom HaZikaron

The link between sacrifice and statehood is not historical, it is immediate, and it remains widely misunderstood

By Leo Pearlman

May 7, 2025, 6:01 pm

A day of joy, pride and love for Israel at primary schools

Hampstead Garden Suburb's Kerem School and Wohl Ilford Jewish Primary School celebrate hard on Yom Ha'atzmaut

By Sharon Walters

King Charles speaks at the event marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

May 1, 2025, 4:58 pm

King Charles speaks of ‘immense pain’ of hostages and expresses ‘profound hope’ for their return

The monarch’s comments were sent to President Isaac Herzog to mark Israel's 77th birthday

By Annabel Sinclair

May 1, 2025, 4:36 pm

Fury as Netanyahu says ‘victory’ trumps return of hostages

Hostages families condemn Israeli PM after he says victory in Gaza takes priority over freeing captives still held by Hamas

By Annabel Sinclair

April 30, 2025, 9:50 pm

OPINION: Israel’s founders would be dismissed as naive and worse by some today

Unity cannot mean an extreme minority dictating to the majority what constitutes an acceptable opinion to express, write Sir Mick Davis and Mike Prashker

By Sir Mick Davis and Mike Prashker

UJIA Business Breakfast May 2024. Pic: Michelle Rosenberg

May 15, 2024, 3:04 pm

‘Reflection, connection and celebration’: UJIA marks Israel’s 76th birthday

More than 260 guests join October 7th survivors, Chief Rabbi Mirvis and Ambassador Hotovely for Yom Ha'atzmaut business breakfast

By Michelle Rosenberg

Defensive position in Yavne, 1947. Photo by Yaakov Rosner, KKL-JNF Photo Archive

May 14, 2024, 12:34 pm

Yom Ha’atzmaut: rare archive pictures honour State of Israel

KKL-JNF shares historic images in honour of Israel's 76th Independence Day

By Michelle Rosenberg

May 10, 2024, 2:05 pm

OPINION: We often don’t realise it but Israel shapes much of Jewish life in the Diaspora

This Yom Ha’atzmaut we would do well to appreciate the role the country has played for the past 76 years, writes Jon Boyd

By JON BOYD

March 15, 2023, 8:59 am

OPINION: Governments come and go, but there are 75 reasons to keep celebrating Israel

"Never lose sight of the full story of the Jewish state and how unbelievable it is," urge Steve Winston and Dalia Hajioff of the National Jewish Assembly, ahead of Israel's landmark anniversary.

By Steve Winston and Dalia Hajioff

February 9, 2023, 11:35 am

Fifth annual Festival of Spoken Ivrit returns to London

Hebrew language festival celebrates Israel's birthday with 75 shows at Jewish schools and youth groups across the UK

By Michelle Rosenberg

Left to right: Ambassador Dr. Sheikh Abdallah bin Ahmad Al Khalifa (Undersecretary in Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry), Ambassador Eitan Na'eh, Ambassador Steve Bondy (US Ambassador to Bahrain)

May 27, 2022, 3:06 pm

Bahrain becomes first Gulf council country to host Israeli Independence Day

Ties with Israel come two weeks after inter-faith conference including Jews in Saudi Arabia - and the day after Iraq banned contacts with Israelis, on pain of death

By Toby Porter

Israeli children's hold Israeli flags ahed of Israel 73rd Independence day, at a kindergarten in Moshav Yashresh, April 13, 2021. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90

April 15, 2021, 3:37 pm

This year’s Israel Independence Day torchbearers span in age from 18 to 102

As the Jewish state celebrates its 73rd birthday, Yaish Giat, a 102-year-old Yemenite Torah scholar is among those who are participating in ceremonies to mark the occasion

By JTA

Aryeh Halimi, whose Toldot Yisrael documentary film project is transferring to Israel's national library (Photo via Nathan Jeffay)

April 14, 2021, 5:23 pm

Meet the man who captured the eyewitnesses to Israel’s birth on video

Aryeh Halivni's 4,300 hours of memories and first-hand accounts is to join a new collection at Israel's national library

By Nathan Jeffay

March 31, 2021, 9:22 am

March of the Living prepares to mark Israel’s birthday online

Broadcast on April 15 will include contributions from over 25 countries

By Jewish News Reporter

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