Levi Eshkol

Israel's open secret: Why is Dimona at the center of Israel’s nuclear weapon ambiguity? - explainer

In the 1960s, then prime minister Levi Eshkol vowed that “Israel will not be the first state to introduce nuclear weapons into the region.” The sentiment has been repeated by Israeli officials since.

 A view of the Israeli nuclear facility in the Negev desert outside Dimona, now called the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center.
 SCENE FROM ‘A Warrior & A Dreamer’ in celebration of Noa Eshkol.

No time to dance – a celebration of influential dancer Noa Eshkol

 Levi Eshkol

How it really was: Israel’s first oil discovery

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu exposes files that prove Iran’s nuclear program in a press conference in Tel Aviv, in 2018.

Bibi’s Eshkol moment on the Iran question


Triumph and tragedy

On the 46th anniversary of that great drama, we can only wish that it had never happened, that it was all a dream.

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Conquérants de fortune

La capture de la Vieille ville de Jérusalem ne faisait pas partie des plans israéliens, jusqu’à l’irruption de la Guerre des Six jours en juin 1967. Retour sur les événements inattendus qui ont changé la donne du conflit

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All in the family

The legacy of Labor MK Isaac Herzog runs deep.

Isaac Herzog as a baby with his father, Chaim Herzog in 1960

Sunday morning feeling

The country needs to work on getting a weekend worthy of its name.

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Eshkol in 1933: Jews ‘adapting’ to new situation in Germany

The Israel State Archives release letter from Eshkol to his wife from Berlin six months after Hitler's rise to power.

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Kadima and the Likud, time to try again

Netanyahu has adopted a more flexible stance, bringing him much closer to Kadima’s centrist views.

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Governing Israel: Ultimate insider's account

As speechwriter to several prime ministers, Yehuda Avner was present at many of the most fateful moments in the leadership of the state.

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