The fire is said to have started in a nearby factory, and residents reported a large cloud of smoke rising from the area.

Exactly 80 years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated the remaining 7,000 prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The largest of the Nazi death camps, Auschwitz saw the murder of 1.1 million ...

He and his close friend, Elihu Bergman, managed to contact a Haganah operative in the US. Eventually, Syd, Eli and a third Seattleite, Bailey Neider, were recruited to serve as crewmen on a de ...

There are manifest dangers in drawing historical lessons from popular culture, in this case an enormous bestseller from the ...

Reports from northern Palestine tonight said that the Haganah had blown up bridge linking Syria to Palestine, following new attacks on Jewish settlements in upper Galilee. Arab snipers renewed ...

Israel was on the brink of war and Yehudit served in the Haganah as a medic. She would have liked to have become a nurse but that was impossible in her circumstances.

After the ceasefire agreement was signed in Gaza, Israel continued targeting ordinary people in the West Bank. This is hardly ...

In 1947, while still a teenager, she moved to what was then the British Mandate of Palestine, where she trained as a sniper in the Haganah, a forerunner of the Israel Defense Forces. She ...

Who organized the arms smuggling? Both the Haganah and the Irgun Zvai Leumi organized underground networks to gather weapons and send them overseas. I once interviewed someone whose family had ...

Israel was recognised by the UN the following year. A Haganah (Jewish Underground) fighter just before the start of the Israeli war of independence in 1948 By the time the fighting ended with an ...

The conflict came to be known in Israel as its war of independence. Getty Images A Haganah (Jewish Underground) fighter just before the start of the Israeli war of independence in 1948 By the time ...