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Eichmann in Israel: Rare Photos of a Nazi War Criminal
In 1963, the political theorist Hannah Arendt added a chilling (and, ultimately, controversial because so often misunderstood) phrase to the international lexicon: “the banality of evil.” Arendt coined...
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Anne Frank’s Friends: Photos of the Girls Who Lived
Some stories, in their telling, are so hard to believe and, at their ending, are so hard to bear that, if they were not historically, demonstrably real, readers might be forgiven for dismissing them...
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Casualty of War: A Photographer’s Final Pictures
Paul Schutzer died 45 years ago, in June 1967, on the first day of the Six-Day War. The 36-year-old LIFE photographer was riding in a half-track personnel carrier with Israeli soldiers when he was shot...
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Born Under Fire: The Dawn of Israel, 1948
Sixty-five years ago this week, in the midst of a civil war and at the tail end of the decades-long British Mandate of Palestine, the state of Israel was born. The post-World War II era’s premier...
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When the Bible Meets the Media: How LIFE Magazine ‘Illustrated’ the Psalms
The recent uproar around Darren Aronofsky’ Noah — driven largely by bickering between the chronically aggrieved “culture warriors” on both the Right and the Left — reminds us that, when it comes to...
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‘Disarmers of Terror': LIFE With an Israeli Bomb Squad, 1984
In December 1984, LIFE magazine—then in its two-decade-long run as a monthly—published an article and photographs on “the busiest bomb squad in the world.” Written by David Friend and featuring...
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