Ultra-Orthodox Israelis, exempt for decades from military service, are now being drafted. Their rage is dividing Israel and threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. By Elisabeth ...

Americans in search of hope and optimism amid Israel’s multifront war as well as surging antisemitism on the home front can find it on Dec. 8 through “Ben-Gurion Day in the USA,” Americans for ...

Forward Looking Back brings you the stories that were making news in the Forward’s Yiddish paper 100, 75, and 50 years ago. Check back each week for a new set of illluminating, edifying and sometimes ...

A grandson of David Ben-Gurion on Wednesday told a minister from the far-right Otzma Yehudit party that he was not welcome at the annual state memorial for Israel’s first prime minister. Yariv ...

Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, had a twin brother who died soon after birth, according to a document recently found in Plonsk, Poland, his native town. The document — a birth ...

David Ben-Gurion left the United States today after completing a strenuous 19-day cross-country visit at the invitation of the United Jewish Appeal, in which he sought aid for absorbing Israel’s ...

In “Ben-Gurion on Judicial Reform” (Politics & Ideas, Aug. 2), William Galston quotes Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion’s 1949 statement that it was impossible to “delegate authority to the ...

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Wikimedia Commons/David Saranga, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs via JNS.org) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has launched a $1 billion fundraising campaign ...