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Police stop protestors at Begin Gate in Tel Aviv from dispersing at the end of the protest.

Senior Arab official: Gaza deal imminent, but not completely secure

Benjamin Netanyahu may be taking political considerations into account surrounding hostage negotiations, source says

IDF forces night operation in the West Bank, April 9, 2024.

Hostage deal 'imminent'; IDF kills PIJ terrorist involved in Oct. 7 massacre

Grad rockets used by Hezbollah

Hezbollah's air defense system more sophisticated than Israel has previously thought

A person stands watch at an entrance to the encampment on the university grounds as protests continue at Columbia University, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, US, April 25, 2024.

Main Columbia protestor is professional agitator, has criminal record

Breaking News

Israel Aerospace Industries celebrates CEO for torch-lighting role on Independence Day

IDF Chief of Staff's letter for Holocaust Day: 'At [the war's] onset, we failed in our mission'

Rocket sirens sound in the Upper Galilee

Top News

A TORCH burns on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl, 2017

Druze Oct. 7 hero foregoes Independence Day torch-lighting: I'm being threatened

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A woman waves a large Israeli flag as people watch the military airshow as part of Israel's 75th Independence Day celebrations, in Jerusalem, April 26, 2023.

This Independence Day, we cry for the independence taken from our hostages

By JPOST EDITORIAL

View of Lublin Street in Chełm, Poland, pre-war. (Courtesy Yad Vashem, Source: ‘Chelm Yizkor Buch,’ published by the Chelmner Landsmannschaft in Yiddish, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1954)

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Observing with renewed urgency post-Oct. 7

NYC synagogues, museum receive fake bomb threats, New York officials say

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

NYPD puts US flag back on pole after clearing pro-Palestinian protest. Uploaded 4/5/2024

NYPD clear schools and restore US flag, decry anti-US, pro-terror content

By MICHAEL STARR

Israel-Hamas War

Imam Zerev, killed by the IDF on May 4, 2024.

IDF eliminates top PIJ commander who helped carry out October 7 attacks

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

HAMAS CHIEF Ismail Haniyeh speaks to the press upon his arrival at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip in 2017.

Hostage talks held in Cairo, as Israel and Hamas at odds on ending the war

By TOVAH LAZAROFF , REUTERS

Palestinian group Hamas' top leader, Ismail Haniyeh speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, March 26, 2024.

Hamas shows signs of progress in proposed hostage deal, waiving key conditions

By YUVAL BARNEA , SAM HALPERN , REUTERS

Palestinian Hamas militants take part in an anti-Israel rally in Gaza City May 22, 2021

Hamas claims 'flexibility' and attacks in Gaza amid talks

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Yahya Sinwar

IDF missed Sinwar by mere days, National Security Advisor claims

By MAARIV ONLINE

Hot Opinion

This Independence Day, we cry for the independence taken from our hostages

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Threatening hostage families is a new low for Israel's government

By TAMAR URIEL-BEERI

Jews against Jews is not so new

By ANDREA SAMUELS

Israel must take steps to reduce reliance on foreign weaponry for war against Hamas

By BOAZ GOLANY

No longer an academic debate: Anti-Zionism is antisemitism

By WILLIAM DAROFF

Israel News

A view of the luxury apartments and tall buildings in downtown Jerusalem, on October 27, 2015. Most of the luxury apartments are owned by foreign residents or by Israelis who use them as vacation homes. The city with the largest number of phantom apartments is Jerusalem.

Ghost apartments: How empty homes haunt Jerusalem's housing landscape

By ALEX WINSTON

People walk by pphotographs of Israelis still held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at "Hostage Square" in Tel Aviv. March 10, 2024.

Israel-Hamas war day 211: What's going on in Gaza?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

IDF kills terrorists responsible for murder of Elhanan Klein, one soldier critically injured

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , MAARIV

IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, April 23, 2024.

'Entering Rafah is a death trap, we don't trust you': Soldiers' parents pen letter to defense chief

By MATAN WASSERMAN

Marching on Shaul Hamelech Boulevard in Tel Aviv.

Families of Gaza hostages call Netanyahu to resign, some call to continue war in Gaza

By MAYA GUR ARIEH

Analysis and Features

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with a group of academic elites and scientific talents in Tehran, Iran October 19, 2022

Looking into the dark reign of Seyyed Ali Khamenei

CHILDREN PLAY in a pre-school group set up inside a bomb shelter, in the center of the country, in November. Our children have lost their innocence, and have had to grapple with concepts that most adults can barely understand, the writer laments.

Where is the concern of the children of Israel with post-Oct. 7 trauma?

By MEIRA LERNER

The US sanctioning of IDF’s Netzah Yehuda Battalion is absurd

By ALIZA PILICHOWSKI

Zelensky is in a predicament in the war against Russia

By SALEM ALKETBI

Artist Lea Gul

Artist Lea Gul's journey: Muslim upbringing in Turkey to Jewish life in Jerusalem

By ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

HEROINES OF SWORDS OF IRON

Ono Conversation Corner

BANK HAPOALIM GATEWAY

Real Estate Listings

A STUDENT protester waves a Palestinian flag above Hamilton Hall on the campus of Columbia University in New York, in late April.

Hims & Hers Health faces stock decline after CEO's comments on student protests

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Bleecker Bakery

Bleecker Bakery: Out for breakfast in Netanya

By GLORIA DEUTSCH

FRC team Orbit #1690 from Binyamina holding the world championship trophy after winning first place. Uploaded 4/5/2024

Israeli team triumphs in FIRST Robotics Competition amid war challenges

David Zaikin

What is the impact of October 7 on Israel's economy?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Market Data

Middle East

SOLDIERS OPERATE in the Gaza Strip.

Israel must take steps to reduce reliance on foreign weaponry for war against Hamas

A drone is launched during a military exercise in an undisclosed location in Iran, in this handout image obtained on October 4, 2023.

Iran-backed Bahraini group claims second attack on Israel

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Israel's message to Iran: We will act to destroy the nuclear threat

By DAVID BEN-BASAT

Looking to scoop up plates. Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah

Hezbollah claims to have targeted Israeli 'radar site'

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

AI generated image of Gaza found in the PMO's plan for a post-war Gaza, May 3, 2024.

From crisis to prosperity: Netanyahu's vision for Gaza 2035 revealed online

By YUVAL BARNEA

World News

Police in Perth, Australia, February 5, 2008.

Australian police shoot boy dead after stabbing attack, 'hallmarks' of terrorism

Police guard outside Malmo Arena ahead of Eurovision in Malmo, Sweden. April 26, 2024.

Record alert for terrorism in Sweden ahead of Eurovision

By WALLA! CULTURE

Norway's Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide speaks during a press conference, in Berlin, Germany, March 14, 2024.

Norwegian FM photographed with daughter of Palestinian terrorist

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Law enforcement officials clash with demonstrators, as they try to enter the protest encampment in support of Palestinians at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), May 2, 2024

African-American denounces pro-Palestinian UCLA protesters as 'racist'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Columbia University President Nemat "Minouche" Shafik testifies before a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing on "Columbia University's Response to Antisemitism," on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, April 17, 2024.

Columbia President addresses campus protests in statement: 'they were largely peaceful'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Antisemitism / BDS

CONTEMPLATIVE MOMENTS on campus in front of hostages, near the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University, New York City, April 24.

Holocausts and Harvards: Antisemitism and Jews joining in

By STEWART WEISS

CHAIM RA’ANAN and Guy Pines participate in the Sharing Memories project. Ra’anan was born in Budapest, survived the Holocaust, and has lived since 1948 in Kibbutz Be’eri. On October 7, he survived the massacre, staying with his grandchild in the shelter while terrorists were outside.

Sharing the memories of Holocaust survivors is a duty, not a privilege

By MAAYAN SARIG

A SIGN posted at the protest encampment in support of Palestinians at Columbia University. It is the spirit of the ’60s that seems to be animating many of the protesters on campuses protesting against Israel – in their eyes, the symbol of the established order they want to tear down.

No longer an academic debate: Anti-Zionism is antisemitism

By WILLIAM DAROFF

‘FOR NOW, in America, I only wear a baseball hat,’ says the writer.

It's still not time to wear a kippah in public in the diaspora

Pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University

Radical activists trained US student groups on 'resistance'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Environment & Climate Change

THE GRIFFON VULTURE in flight.

Saving the Israeli vulture: A lifeline for the biblical bird of prey

By ANAV SILVERMAN PERETZ

Electric car concept with windmills (illustrative)

Israel's climate tech: Visionary or hollow?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

the submerged Neolithic site of Habonim North, located approximately 100m west of the current shoreline off the Carmel Coast, Israel; c) excavation areas A and B. Uploaded on 1/5/2024

Joint US-Israeli underwater excavations reveal ancient human resilience despite climate change

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

ARAVA INSTITUTE students in dialogue with one another.

Coalition of academics nominate Israel’s Arava Institute for Nobel Peace Prize

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A general view of The Nile River, houses and agricultural land from the window of an airplane in Luxor, Egypt October 9, 2019

Groundbreaking study reveals way to resolve Nile water dispute

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

JPost Spotlight

Eden Golan in rehearsals for Eurovision in Malmo, Sweden.

Not 'just another Eurovision': A positive, energetic, emotional Eden Golan speaks from Malmo

She and her entourage arrived in Malmo last week. Advised by Israeli security not to leave their hotel rooms except when absolutely necessary.

"There is a fear of serving in office after what happened on October 7." Observation in action

'Mom, I can no longer be in the army': Female IDF soldiers reveal hellish recruitment process

Harsh treatment of female soldiers: abused, humiliated, and pressured to enlist as observers following October 7 events, leading to anxiety, trauma, and severe consequences.

AN EXTERIOR view of Kinnitty Castle.

72 hours exploring the countryside of Ireland

Staying in a haunted castle is anything but awful in County Offaly.

CRAFTED BY Bees at the Israel Museum.

Beeswax and mosaic caves: Art in Tel Aviv, Herzliya, and other locations

On Thursday, May 9, about 100 museums across the country will open their doors gratis and offer unique events in honor of International Museum Day.

Israel Real Estate

Government approves M2 metro line plan: Cities it passes through

By OFER PETERSBURG

A frustrated construction worker.

Contractors Warn: War & Turkish boycott impact on construction

By OFER PETERSBURG

Illustration: Urban Renewal Plan in Ashkelon

Israel's first urban renewal plan under Shaked Alternative approved

By OFER PETERSBURG

A decade-long struggle resolved: significant progress in establishing the second hospital in Be'er Sheva.

Decade-Long struggle resolved: New Hospital in Be'er Sheva set to proceed

By OFER PETERSBURG

The City of David remains a captivating blend of archaeological wonder and contemporary life.

City of David: Jerusalem's ancient capital and modern vision

By ALEX WINSTON

Christian World

A demonstrator holds a sign across from the Columbia University campus with a student protest encampment in support of Palestinians, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., April 25, 2024.

American Jews should take a look at Catholic universities

The conventional measures of institutional prestige cannot provide two vital pieces of information: What does an institution teach, and what kind of students does it attract?

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) attends a press conference alongside fellow Republicans following the passage of the Secure the Border Act, HR-2, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 11, 2023.

MTG opposes antisemitism bill due to rejecting ‘Gospel,’ that ‘the Jews’ handed Jesus to crucifiers

In recent years, the accusation that Jews sold out Jesus to his eventual crucifiers has reemerged as a cause to be championed among some far-right Christian sects.

A MAN PORTRAYS Jesus at the 2024 National Religious Broadcasters Association International Christian Media Convention, addressed by former US president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, in Nashville, Tennessee, in February.

Donald Trump is framing a second term as a holy crusade to defend Christianity

This will be the second coming of Saint Donald, a man who by his own admission has never done anything wrong, calling himself “perhaps the most honest guy almost in the world.”

THE LARGEST gathering of ‘Israel the Miracle’ authors (L to R): Pastors Jim and Rosemary Garlow; Dr. Juergen Bueler; the writer; Dr. Brad Young; Dr. Wayne Hilsden.

Visiting pro-Israel Christian communities in the US amid Hamas war

Not only did I not take off my kippah and not experience antisemitism, but in fact my kippah became a lightning rod for visceral expressions of support for Israel and the Jewish people.

Health & Wellness

Polish-born Holocaust survivor Meyer Hack shows his prisoner number tattooed on his arm during a news conference at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem June 15, 2009.

'Who has energy for Holocaust Remembrance Day?': Crisis fatigued Israelis amid ongoing tragedy

A woman is seen putting exfoliants on her face.

Top five exfoliators of 2024

By ALIE M. TAUB

HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR Haim Grinberg addresses IDF officers and soldiers, marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, last year.

Amidst Gaza war, Holocaust survivors in Israel reliving memories, traumas from Holocaust

SUPERNOVA MUSIC festival survivor Bar at a healing retreat organized by the nonprofit Tribe of Nova Foundation to help survivors of the festival with their rehabilitation.

The Tribe of Nova Foundation works to help festival survivors recover

A sheltered hospital ward at the Ziv medical center in Tzfat, Northern Israel. January 11, 2024.

‘Ready at any moment’: Hospitals in northern Israel preparing for tough war against Hezbollah

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Arab-Israeli Conflict

Elyakim Shlomo Libman

Body of previously classified hostage, Elyakim Libman, discovered in grave of October 7 victim

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

(L-R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar

Israel gives Hamas one week to accept hostage deal before Rafah op. will begin - WSJ

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Science

Students protest in front of the Pantheon in support of Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Paris, France, May 3, 2024.

Students for Justice in Palestine receive funding through Hamas-linked orgs, new research suggests

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Illustrative image of a dairy cow.

Bird flu has been circulating in cows for months, may be spreading among farm workers

Archaeology

One of the skulls discovered in an archaeological dig under Herman Goering's residence in Nazi base the Wolf's Lair in Poland, April 29, 2024.

Discovery of mutilated corpses under Goering's home in Nazi HQ in Poland, prompts investigation

By YUVAL BARNEA

Mysterious Roman dodecahedron found in Norton Disney to go on display in Lincolnshire for the first time

Mysterious ancient Roman object leaves archaeologists scratching their heads

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

US Politics

US Navy personnel construct a JLOTS, which stands for "Joint Logistics Over-the Shore" temporary pier which will provide a ship-to-shore distribution system to help deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza, in an undated handout picture in the Mediterranean Sea.

US temporarily suspends assembly of floating dock off Gaza and hands control to Israel

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

New York Republican State Sen. Jack Martins chairs the conference’s antisemitism working group and is pushing for Democrats to take up legislative measures which would define antisemitism at the state level. Uploaded on 4/5/2024

New York State Senate Republicans urge Democratic action on cluster of antisemitism bills

By HANNAH SARISOHN

Diaspora

HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS Betty and Itshak Eder built a new life for themselves on Kibbutz Kfar Hanassi.

Kindertransport: Second generation digs up Holocaust baggage

Billionaire investor George Soros arrives at the Schumpeter Award in Vienna, Austria June 21, 2019.

Reported Soros funding of anti-Israel encampments sparks antisemitic conspiracy theories

Judaism

THE ANZAC Torah is held high by rabbi David Yitzchak Friedman during the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I in 1915.

The story of the ANZAC Torah and how it survived

By JONATHAN LIEBERMAN

An illustrative image of a baby being offered to the Molech.

Parashat Aharei Mot: Holiness of the family

By RABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ

Food

Yehudit Restaurant

Yehudit Restaurant: Homemade comfort food in Jerusalem's shuk

By LINDA GRADSTEIN

A Tnuva truck enters the company's logistic centre in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi, Israel May 22, 2014.

Strauss, Cola, and Tnuva: Will Israel's food prices keep rising and why?

Culture

'SON OF SAUL'

A guide to Holocaust Remembrance Day programs at the movies and on TV

By HANNAH BROWN

JONAH HAUER-KING as Lali Sokolov and Anna Próchniak as Gita Furman in ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz.’

Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' hits Israeli TV

By HANNAH BROWN

Travel

FILE PHOTO: UK Border control is seen in Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport in London

Israeli student questioned at UK airport: Is there a new British policy to question IDF veterans?

THE NILI Museum in Zichron Ya'acov.

Kleptomania, cyberterror, heroism: A trip to Zichron Ya'acov and Clil

By GRAEME STONE

Podcasts

Music and dance feature large in Batumi's cultural scene

Surprising Batumi, on Georgia's Black Sea Coast

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Rachel Goldberg, the U.S.-Israeli mother of Hersh Goldberg Polin, who was taken hostage by militants of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from the Gaza Strip during the October 7 attack on a music festival in south Israel

Hostage's mother Rachel Goldberg-Polin: Both Gazans, hostages are suffering

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Aliyah

Jordan Weil, 29 From Florida to Tel Aviv, 2022

Florida woman comes to Israel so often she ends up making aliyah

By JORDANA BENAMI

SECURITY PERSONNEL eject from the stands a fan displaying a flag in support of Palestine during the women’s final match at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, in January.

Contemplating 'a return to Zion' in the face of antisemitism

By TAMMY REZNIK

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Best Air Purifiers For Home for 2023

Conferences

Jerusalem Post Annual Conference 2024.

The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York

Yom Hazikaron 2024.

A moving Yom Hazikaron ceremony for the English-speaking community

Finance

Illustrative photo of Israeli money

Doing business in Israel: How to make money and keep most of it

Vesey Ventures founders Lindsay Fitzgerald, Dana Eli-Lorch, Julia Huang.

Vesey Ventures launches $78m fund, highlighting power of well-connected investor team

OMG

Pro-Palestinian protesters maintain an encampment on Columbia University campus on April 24, 2024.

Jews may win Nobels, but the Gazan terrorists are the geniuses

By MARY GLICKMAN

Seyed Hossein Mousavian Endorsed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Fatwa Condemning British Author Salman Rushdie To Death

Princeton University sticks with pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah, pro-terror professor

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

Sponsored Content

4 growth strategies of leading Israeli tech giants

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