Allied forces invaded Iran in 1941 over strategic fears, toppling Reza Shah; Jewish soldiers played key roles securing supply routes, aiding refugees and supporting the war effort against Nazi Germany

Dogs accompanied prisoners at every moment in concentration camps — during selections, marches and forced labor — leaving lasting trauma, as evidence shows a system that turned fear into method, even forcing prisoners to build the kennels

Aharon Barak recounts childhood escape from Nazi ghetto, links Holocaust trauma to legal philosophy; warns democracy must defend judges, calls for moral treatment of Arabs, says elections give him hope

Desecration at Jewish cemetery in Reghin, where Rabbi Hillel Pollak — a disciple of the Chatam Sofer and ancestor of Israeli lawmaker Benny Gantz — is buried, under investigation by Romanian authorities, with no suspects arrested so far

The Jewish Defense League had long been considered inactive, but an arrest in a plot to kill a Palestinian activist has shed light on what appears to be a resurgence of far-right Zionist activism, according to a New York Times report