50 Years Ago Today
March 17, 1969, 50 years ago today, Golda Meir was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Israel 🇮🇱👸🏽 📸 Chanania Herman, Government Press OfficeGPO National Photo Collection.
Jewish volunteers of the British auxiliary territorial service celebrating Hanukkah in Cairo, Egypt, 1942.
Jewish volunteers of the British auxiliary territorial service celebrating Hanukkah in Cairo, Egypt, 1942. Source: Kluger Zoltan, Government Press Office — in Cairo, Egypt
International journalists, bloggers and social media gurus at the Jewish Media Summit meet with Israel’s top leadership and discuss anything but prickly domestic Israeli affairs
The group of 150 writers from 30 countries participated in the third Jewish Media Summit, a four-day meet-up organized in cooperation with the Diaspora Affairs Ministry, the Foreign Ministry and the Jerusalem and Heritage Affairs Ministry. The invited attendees included heads of international Jewish media, alongside bloggers and social media […]
GPO and Reuven Rivlin, President of Israel
🇮🇱 I am honored to have been invited into the home of Reuven Ruvi Rivlin – ראובן רובי ריבלין, the President of the State of Israel as part of the Government Press Office and the New Jewish Media Summit. What a privilege to be in the presence of those who […]
120 Years Ago Today: The First Zionist Congress Meets in Basel.
On August 29, 1897, the First Zionist Congress, called together by Theodor Herzl, was held in Basel, Switzerland. The Zionist Organization (ZO – later renamed the World Zionist Organization) was thus formed. Theodor Herzl, the visionary behind modern Zionism, was elected the ZO’s first president and the Basel Program, a […]