TIME senior staff interview Sheikh Ahmed Yassin at his home

Lisa Beyer (TIME) interviews Yizhak Rabin at his home. Center: Eitan Haber

Cordelia Edvardson (Svenska Dagbladed) interviews Leopold Trepper of the ”Red Orchestra” spy network

Annette Grossbongardt (Der Spiegel) checks out a check post

Alvin Rosenfeld (NBC) doing a standup in Sheikh Jarrah

The Alexander Hotel in Beirut, home to the foreign correspondents, after a car bomb exploded nearby

Covering the Beirut war from the comfort of the Alexander Hotel roof

Juergen Hargrefe (Der Spiegel) with Sheikh Yassin

Yizhak Ben Gavriel, freelancer for German newspapers, interviews Golda Meir

Monica Dehn, TIME/LIFE’s first stringer in Israel. interviews Moshe Dayan digging fortifications opposite Gaza

Matt Rees (TIME) on a flight with Benjamin Netanyahu

Lazar Bianco, cameraman for UPI-TN

David Rubinger, Lisa Beyer and Ron Ben-Ishay in South Lebanon

Howard Goller (Reuters) and Nick Tatro (AP) both former FPA chairmen

TIME Bureau Chief and former FPA chairman Bob Slater with actor Chuck Norris

Mike Elkins, BBC

Shabtai Tal, Mike Elkins and Gideon Berli at the annual FPA meeting with Israeli Prime Minister, Begin

Mike Kubic, Newsweek Bureau Chief, interviews Menachem Begin

Roland Flamini aboard a flight to Washington with Shimon Peres

Hanne Foighel (Politiken) and Ariel Sharon

Rudolf Kuerstermayer, correspondent for Deutche Presse Agentur. reads his pool notes on the execution of Adolf Eichmann

Eric Silver of The Independent and former FPA Chairman with former Mossad head Efraim Halevi

Annette Grossbongardt (Der Spiegel) checks out a check post

Der Spiegel photographer André Brutmann at an Israeli checkpoint

Marlin Levin (TIME) and former FPA Chairman with Golda Meir

France 2 Jerusalem Bureau during the First Gulf War

FPA presser with Jibril Rajoub, FPA Chairman Samer Shalabi, October 2014

FPA Chairman Simon McGregor-Wood with former head of the Mossad Efraim Halevy

Annette Grossbongardt (Der Spiegel) with Israel’s President Moshe Katzav

Herbert Pundik, Hanne Foighel and Shimon Peres

Dan Bloom, CBS Bureau Chief and one time FPA Chairman. The air shuttle between Israel and Cyprus was nicknamed ” Bloom Air”

Time out

André Brutmann (Der Spiegel)

Shabtai Tal, Mike Elkins and Gideon Berli at the annual FPA meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Begin

Arie Wallenstein. former FPA chairman, gives the pool report on Eichmann’s execution

TIME’s Jamil Hamad in Hebron

The FPA hosts President Ruby Rivlin, seen with David Rubinger

Hanne Foighel with PM Yizhak Rabin

Anne Ponger reports from St. Catherine in the Sinai

Newsweek’s photographer Shomo Arad in South Lebanon

Early days of the Foreign Press. A poker game at the Government Press Office. At that time the GPO was housed in the Russian Compound

Marlin Levin ,TIME correspondent and former FPA chairman, with Ben Gurion

Bill Seamans and Barbara Walters

Hanne Foighel and Sylke Tempel interview Ehud Barak

Chief of Staff Ehud Barak and TIME Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer

Jamil Hamad, Lazar Bianco and Yizhak Rabin

On the steps of President Makarios’s palace in Nicosia. Shabtai Tal, Dan Pattir and Yoram Ronnen

The three major networks in brotherly love- Bill Seamans, Hillary Brown and Bob Simon

Der Spiegel photographer André Brutmann

Jamil Hamad with Jibril Rajoub

Shlomo Arad

Annette Grossbongardt (Der Spiegel) and baby in Jerusalem

Foreign press party at the home of Jim Hollander and Rina Castelnuovo

Bob Simon of CBS has a head wound tended in Beirut

Matt Rees of TIME interviews a border policeman

Der Spiegel’s André Brutmann

Sven Nackstrand (AFP) takes a day off

News photographers outside the Likud Party HQ after the 1977 election victory of Menachem Begin

Johanna McGeary, TIME Bureau Chief, slips a note into the cracks of the Western Wall

Mike Elkins interviews Border Police head Zvi Bar

Nablus Mayor Bassam Shaka’a meets the foreign press. Center: David Aikman

Francis Ofner, FPA founder and first chairman, with PM Yizhak Rabin

Foreign Press Association in Israel, Yearly General Assembly. The board. MK MERAV MICHAELI, guest speaker.

Jay Bushinsky, CNN Bureau chief at the time, with Ariel Sharon in Beirut

ISABEL KERSHNER (NYTimes) Foreign Press Assoc. at King David Hotel

Former FPA chairman Peter Allen-Frost and Tami

The FPA hosts President Ruby Rivlin, seen with David Rubinger

FPA Chairman Peter Allen-Frost welcomes PM Yizhak Shamir to and FPA presser

Likud Party HQ in 1977 after general election victory