How was the founding of Israel?

It was officially announced on May 14, 1948. The creation of Israel was based on a resolution approved a year earlier at the United Nations (UN) and which foresaw the division of the then territory of Palestine into two states:…

Who were the Templars?

(Disclosure/Reproduction/Wikimedia Commons) They emerged as a kind of religious army: an order formed by knightly monks to protect Jerusalem after the city’s conquest, in the twelfth century, by the Crusades – expeditions organized by European Christian powers to take the…