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Yom Kippur War
Ami Ayalon, left with Board of Deputies President Phil Rosenberg
June 25, 2024, 2:28 pm
‘We have to accept a Palestinian state. There is no other way’, says former head of Shin Bet
In London as a guest of left-wing Zionist group Yachad UK, Ami Ayalon tells Jewish News 'We are afraid, we lost confidence, we lost a sense of security, we are humiliated'.
By Sandy Rashty
Henry Kissinger in the West Wing when he was National Security Advisor
November 30, 2023, 12:51 pm
OPINION: Kissinger – the diplomat who shaped the world but remained a riddle
By Prof Colin Shindler, a Senior Research Fellow in Israel Studies at SOAS
Golda Meir, JW3
October 6, 2023, 2:12 pm
Jewface row ’embarrassing’ says Golda Meir’s grandson at Jewish News film screening
Gideon Meir was speaking at first showing of biopic of Israel's first female prime minister featuring Helen Mirren at JW3.
By Etan Smallman
Daniel Pearl with his unit in the Sinai Desert, 1973. Credit: IDF
October 3, 2023, 11:32 am
SPECIAL REPORT – 50th anniversary of Yom Kippur War: ‘Those first days of battle were chaos’
Now 71, Israeli army veteran Danny Pearl recalls his harrowing memories of fighting the Egyptian army in the Sinai Desert during the Yom Kippur War.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
YOM KIPPUR WAR. IN THE PHOTO, PRIME MINISTER GOLDA MEIR, DEFENSE MINISTER MOSHE DAYAN & MINISTER ISRAEL GALILI VISITING THE SOUTHERN COMMAND IN THE SINAI. CREDIT: TZION YEHUDA (GPO)
October 3, 2023, 9:36 am
EHUD BARAK INTERVIEW: ‘Yom Kippur war was an operational victory to surpass even 1967’
In an exclusive interview with Jewish News marking this week's 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, the former prime minister reflects on how early existential setbacks were overcome and unlikely victory achieved.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir standing with president Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, outside the White House in 1973
May 31, 2023, 11:00 am
Kissinger denies delaying crucial weapons supply to Israel during Yom Kippur war
Kissinger responded to an old accusation about delaying the airlift because he “wanted Israel to bleed just enough” so that it would be ready for diplomacy after the war. 
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Austrian actor Felix Kammerer as Paul Bäumer, the protagonist of Netflix's Oscar-nominated adaptation of "All Quiet on the Western Front." (Reiner Bajo/Netflix)
March 9, 2023, 12:00 pm
Jewish producer of ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ sees his family history in Oscar-nominated film
Daniel Dreifuss: "I know these people. Not because they are some distant relatives that I’ve heard of, but because I am the grandson of one of those kids who were in the film.”
By Andrew Lapin (JTA)
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir. Credit: Jasper Wolf
February 20, 2023, 11:55 am
WATCH: First look at Helen Mirren as Israel’s only female prime minister
"Helen became Golda on a spiritual and cellular level," says film director at Berlin festival
By Michelle Rosenberg
Concert Leonard Cohen, Paris, 1970. Credit: Philippe Gras / Le Pictorium
November 29, 2022, 8:39 am
Leonard Cohen’s 1973 Yom Kippur War concerts to be dramatised in TV series
“Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai” will be written by Yehonatan Indursky, a co-creator of Israeli mega hit “Shtisel"
By Gabe Friedman (JTA)
Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu
October 10, 2019, 3:28 pm
Netanyahu at Yom Kippur War memorial: Israel will defend itself, by itself
Prime Minister uses remembrance ceremony to restate that 'Iran threatens to wipe us off the map'
By JTA
Israel's first - and only female Prime Minister
October 7, 2019, 3:49 pm
Golda Meir letter sent to bereaved families on eve of Yom Kippur War found
'Your pain is the pain of the entire nation… Our main concern is  achieving peace for Israel', the first and only female PM wrote to families
By JTA
Screenshot from Youtube of 'The Angel'
September 13, 2018, 12:47 pm
Netflix film ‘The Angel’ spotlights Egyptian spy who helped Israel
New spy-thriller reveals role of enigmatic Egyptian Ashraf Marwan, who became an Israeli spy and warned of the Yom Kippur war
By Naomi Pfefferman (JTA)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
October 2, 2017, 6:59 pm
Netanyahu sorry for government no-show at Yom Kippur War memorial
Israeli leader apology after nobody in the cabinet went to Mount Herzl ceremony honouring the fallen
By JTA
April 4, 2017, 10:41 am
Iron Lady Digging machines ‘Margaret’ and ‘Golda’ meet in Tel Aviv
Two machines connect underground in Tel Aviv, 41-years after British and Israeli female prime ministers met in city
By Jewish News Reporter
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