Two-minute siren brings country to a halt; Netanyahu addresses official state ceremony at Mount Herzl

New research deciphers historical whodunnit over who penned one of the country's most important founding texts in 1948

Trapped in her Jerusalem apartment during 1948 war, Rebecca Affachiner made iconic emblem from bed sheets to hang from her balcony on Israel's first Independence Day

Krystyna Budnicka lost all seven siblings in the Holocaust but made it out alive herself by hiding in an underground bunker and then in the Polish capital's sewer system

Dozens of residents of West Bank Efrat settlement file into living room to hear Tali Muskal speak about her brother, who was killed in the Second Lebanon War

New electoral system has shaken up the political scene for Israel's northern neighbor, but observers fear changes could help terror group Hezbollah sweep parliamentary seats

Two-minute siren will bring country to a halt at 11 a.m. as families, fellow soldiers attend the gravesides of 23,646 war dead and 3,134 victims of terror

At least three Gazans said injured by Israeli fire; group was reportedly trying to plant an explosive device on security fence