Photo Essays
Born Under Fire: The Dawn of Israel, 1948
Sixty-five years ago this week, in the midst of a civil war and at the tail end of the decades-long British Mandate of Palestine, the state of Israel was born...
LIFE Behind the Picture: The Liberation of Buchenwald, April 1945
Some photographs are so much of their time that, as years pass, they acquire an air of genuine authority — about an event, a person, a place — and even, perhaps,...
Jerusalem Bombings
Jerusalem suffers two suicide bombings in two days
Jerusalem: A Divided City
Photographer Tivadar Domaniczky explores the lives of Jews and Muslims in the Holy Land
Palestinian 'Day of Rage'
Anger over Israel's plan to build an additional 1,600 Jewish homes in East Jerusalem draws hundreds to the streets in protest
Eichmann in Israel: Rare Photos of a Nazi War Criminal
In 1963, the political theorist Hannah Arendt added a chilling (and, ultimately, controversial because so often misunderstood) phrase to the international...
