Dr Gedaliah Afterman is head of the Asia policy programme at the Abba Eban Institute for Diplomacy and Foreign Relations at Reichman University (IDC Herzliya), Israel. He previously served as an ...

Gedaliah was a hero to some, a traitor to others. He had a difficult task: Gedaliah had to assume the governorship of what was left of the Kingdom of Judah after the Babylonian conquest and the ...

The Fast of Gedaliah, held to mark the trragic assassination of the governor of Judea after the destruction of the First Holy Temple, is today. Our Sages said: "To teach you that the death of a ...

Gedaliah worked hard to put life back into some sort of order and it seems the people came out of hiding to join his court. They respected him – but not so the royal family.

Gedaliah son of Ahikam was assassinated at Mizpah, most likely today’s Nabi Samuel, seen here at night. A fast on the month of Tishrei other than Yom Kippur was first mentioned in the Book of ...

The fact that a Jew murdered Gedaliah, that a Jew destroyed the last vestige of Jewish existence in the Land of Israel, deepens the measure of the destruction; and this occurred in the midst of ...

Tzom Gedaliah, the Fast day of Gedaliah’s assassination must be a clear reminder to ever Jew to cast hatred out of our hearts and to return our loyalty to the biblical commandment: ...

Following the Babylonian destruction of Temple in 586 B.C.E., Gedaliah was the last Jewish governor in Judea, until he was assassinated by another Jew who returned from exile to kill him.