Golda Meir

As the 50th anniversary of Nixon's Middle East tour approaches, the strategic lessons from his 1973 diplomacy reveal crucial insights for today's US-Israel relations and regional security.

Ultimately, the events of this week signal a clear message: No matter how secure an enemy might feel, no matter how hidden or protected, Israel’s reach is long.

Israel's people "will remain proud Jews, standing by the principles that Israel and America will continue to share long after Biden has been forgotten," the author writes.

The first Israeli passport issued was in the name of Golda Meir, who at the time worked for the Jewish Agency and was soon to become Israel’s ambassador to the Soviet Union.

President Biden, we literally have no place to go. And no, as Begin told you, we won’t sit back and wait for someone else to eliminate Hamas. 

Half a century on, Benjamin Netanyahu faces the same combination of public wrath and political dead end that Meir faced when Passover 1974 approached.

Women are not better than men, but they are also no worse. It is time to meet the challenge laid down decades ago by our one and only female leader.

As long as gender equality exists in this world, Women's History Month and International Women's Day must be at the top of the agenda in Israel.

As part of its collection marking fifty years since the Yom Kippur War, the National Archives of Israel has detailed the role of US Sec. of State Henry Kissinger in the Israel-Syria negotiations.

Biton served as an MK for the Communist party Hadash for 15 years, and then endorsed the Shas Party after retiring from political office.