As the Great War spread to Palestine in 1914, the Ottoman Turks looked for spies and informers among the Jews of Jerusalem and the settlements.  They saw Zionism as an enemy and Ben Yehuda was obviously at the top of their list.

We are electing a prime minister on April 9. Our current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was recently indicted. On the other hand, Israelis admit there is no one like Netanyahu.

Down through the ages the Hebrew Bible has been preserved in its original beautiful lyrical language — but modern Hebrew was born out of trial by fire.

Australia’s decision on Saturday 15 Dec. 2018 to officially recognize the western half of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel prompted a number of outbursts, some of them very, very revealing.

Eliezer Ben Yehuda dreamed of a family—his family—having many children, all speaking Hebrew from birth. And his wife, Devora, agreed.

What kind of person does it take to single-handedly resurrect a language which had been dead since the second century A.D.?

Theodore Herzl, today considered the Father of the Modern State of Israel, had just hosted the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, with 202 delegates in 1897. The Zionist movement was birthed and began to breathe.

The unlikely friendship of Theodore Herzl and William Hechler led to the modern state of Israel 50 years later.