Anatoly Altman, Soviet Jew who tried to hijack a plane to Israel, dies He was sentenced to 12 years in the gulag for his part in the doomed “Operation Wedding,” but eventually made his way to Israel.
Netanyahu, at Paris ceremony to mark end of WWI, says war led to Israel’s founding The Israeli prime minister said the war broke hundreds of years of Ottoman rule in Palestine.
Ideas Charles Krauthammer: ‘How dreams of peace led to Israel’s biggest mistake’ The Oslo Accords will stand as perhaps the most catastrophic, self-inflicted wound by any state in modern history, the late columnist wrote in 2002.