"It all began almost by accident,” Zalman Shoval says, leaning back with the half-smile of a man who has told and lived this story many times before. “Like many things in life.” At age 95, Shoval, a ...

It’s so often said that it’s become a cliché in modern politics: Israel has been the Jewish homeland for 3,000 years or more. Modern Israel, they say, is heir to the ancient kingdom of David and ...

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Most discussions about “saving” Israel revolve around geopolitics and security from the dangers posed by the rest of the Middle East. But the most vexing of the challenges facing the Jewish state is ...