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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

Hamas leadership approved the implementation of the first phase of the hostage deal, according to a senior Hamas official.

Yossi Cohen and Benjamin Netanyahu

Former Mossad Chief admits to government funding for Hamas via Qatar, calls policy a mistake

INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC Energy Agency director-general Rafael Grossi at an IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, September 13.

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

An IDF soldier operates in the Gaza Strip. May 4, 2024.

Hamas eases demands, signals progress in hostage negotiations

Breaking News

Artillery fire sounds in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah-affiliated network reports

Gantz: Outline for hostage deal yet to be received, urges against political hysteria

Israeli delegation will not head to Cairo until Hamas responds to deal - report

Top News

AN IDF soldier stands near the Israel-Lebanon border as a mobile artillery unit fires toward Hezbollah targets, on Monday.

From Iran to Israel: How it feels to be in the IDF and Iranian army - report

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A woman has her face covered with a scarf to protect her from the heat on a road during a hot summer day in Bhubaneswar, India, May 3, 2024.

Saudi Arabia sentences woman to 11 years for supporting women’s rights

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Ismail Haniyeh, top leader of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, meets a person offering condolences after the killing of three of his sons in an Israeli strike in Gaza City, in Doha, Qatar April 11, 2024.

US demands Qatar expel Hamas if they reject a ceasefire - Washington Post

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , REUTERS

Antisemitic Arabic posts on Holocaust overwhelmingly ignored by social media moderation

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

Israel-Hamas War

PRO-HAMAS posters on campus.

Leaked Students for Justice in Palestine texts show support for massacres of Israelis

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

people walking in the new Holocaust Namenmonument between the red walls of named bricks; free photo Amsterdam by Fons Heijnsbroek, April, 2022

Netherlands prepares for World War II remembrance amid Gaza security fears

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the press at the port of Ashdod, in Ashdod, Israel, May 1, 2024.

Blinken: Situation in Gaza is Hamas's making, it is responsible for preventing a deal

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

SOLDIERS OPERATE in the Gaza Strip.

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

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

Hot Opinion

Rethinking free speech as hate speech and violence spread

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

Hamas parade in Gaza

'Determined to secure an agreement': Hamas says in a statement regarding ceasefire proposal

A SCENE from Jake Paltrow’s ‘June Zero.’

'June Zero': An obscure story about Eichmann in Israel after the trial

By HANNAH BROWN

Finance Minister Smotrich urges PM Benjamin Netanyahu to kick Turkey out of hostage deal talks

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

"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

IDF forces in the area around Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem

Israel-Hamas war: What happened on day 210?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Analysis and Features

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

Students at Columbia University paint a response to a message written by Palestinians in Rafah thanking students for their support as they continue to maintain a protest encampment on campus in support of Palestinians, during the war between Israel and Hamas, April 28, 2024.

UK pro-Palestinian students brave one night in the cold before asking for ‘humanitarian aid’

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

No longer an academic debate: Anti-Zionism is antisemitism

By WILLIAM DAROFF

A science-based afterlife: Can quantum entanglement save my failing body?

FINAL DIGNITY: Jewish chaplain Rev. Leslie Hardman stands over prisoners’ bodies in a mass grave for burial after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by units of the British 11th Armoured Division, on April 23, 1945, near Celle, Germany.

Do not conflate October 7 massacre with the Holocaust

By MOSHE TARAGIN

HEROINES OF SWORDS OF IRON

Ono Conversation Corner

BANK HAPOALIM GATEWAY

Real Estate Listings

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

Waze unveils map marking 'Zikaron Basalon' Holocaust survivor testimony events nationwide

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Prof. Michael Halberthal (left) and Minister Gila Gamliel at Rambam Health Care Campus.

Israeli institutions aim to promote model for research to bypass BDS movement

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Market Data

Middle East

FILE PHOTO: An exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, March 31, 2021.

Lawyer behind push for Netanyahu’s arrest defended Hamas’s October 7 attacks - JC

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A woman takes part in a protest demanding a hostage deal, in Tel Aviv, Israel, February 1, 2024

Holocaust survivor to Netanyahu at Yad Vashem: 'Bring back the hostages'

Hamas to remain in power: Netanyahu's hidden motive unveiled

By HANAN STEINHART

Elyakim Shlomo Libman

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Tribesmen loyal to the Houthis march on U.S. and Israeli flags during a military parade for new tribal recruits amid escalating tensions with the U.S.-led coalition in the Red Sea, in Bani Hushaish, Yemen January 22, 2024.

Yemen's Houthis: 'Serious about accepting anti-Israel students who have been suspended in US'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , REUTERS

World News

STUDENTS study in the Beit Midrash of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem’s Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies opens doors to US college students

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

People sitting on the grass infront of UVIC pro-Palestine protest encampment. 4/5/2024

A talk with activists from University of Victoria's protest encampment

By MICHAEL STARR

US PRESIDENT Joe Biden speaks on the phone with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, last week.

US lawmakers urge President Biden to address alleged Israeli violations of US law in Gaza aid

GILBOA PRISON, in northern Israel near the West Bank.

Prominent Gaza doctor dies in Israeli prison

Iranian missile systems are displayed during the ceremony of joining the IRGC Navy at an undisclosed location in Iran, in this handout image obtained on August 5, 2023

CNN got a look at Iran’s drones and missiles, what did it show?

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Antisemitism / BDS

A MAN walks past a graffiti of verses from the Koran at downtown in Cairo

Many student Islamic religious teachers oppose Israel, view Jews as enemies - study

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Synagogue in Zurich

Toronto police investigate arson of signs, one in front of synagogue

By MICHAEL STARR

An actor wearing symbols of the Holocaust and of Israeli hostages held in Gaza by Hamas takes part in a ceremony hosted by the Yad Ezer Lechaver Association ahead of International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, in Haifa on January 25.

Jew-hatred and anti-Israelism: Why is antisemitism on the rise?

An illustrative image of the KKK.

Sorry, neo-Nazis: The antisemitic progressive Left is the real threat to US Jews

By MICHAEL FREUND

JUST AFTER the Hamas attack on October 7, even before the IDF began its ground operation in Gaza, Jewish Voice for Peace was already calling to ‘Stop the genocide of Palestinians.’

Jews against Jews is not so new

By ANDREA SAMUELS

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

destroyed houses from the October 7 massacre six months ago, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, southern Israel, April 7, 2024

How Jews plan to mark Yom HaShoah 7 months after the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust

Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, gains added significance amidst the Israel-Hamas war, commemorating the October 7 attack as "a sample of the Holocaust."

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

What subterranean think tank created the plan to force it to stand alone against the world after brutalizing it in a manner unthinkable to the civilized mind?

Israeli security forces guard while Jews and tourist visit the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, August 28, 2023.

Hundreds of Jews to fly Israeli flags on Temple Mount on Independence Day

Throughout Passover, a new record of Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount was broken, as over 4,000 people visited despite the limited number of days of the holiday compared to the previous years.

A WOMAN looks at photos of hostages posted at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv. Either by a deal or by force, the hostages must be returned as part of resolving the current crisis, the writer asserts.

Solving complex geopolitical environment in Middle East requires courage and creativity

Given the complexity of the current situation, its solution calls for great faith in our Creator, along with extraordinary creativity, courage, and original thought.

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

An actor wearing symbols of the Holocaust and of Israeli hostages held in Gaza by Hamas takes part in a ceremony hosted by the Yad Ezer Lechaver Association ahead of International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, in Haifa on January 25.

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

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

WHO chief urges countries to finalize pandemic accord by deadline

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

Netanyahu meets holocaust survivors, members of the "Yad Ezer Lachaver"

How did starving as youngsters during the Holocaust affect survivors and their descendants?

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

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Arab-Israeli Conflict

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inspects the Egyptian military units in Suez, as he told the media in his speech that Cairo is playing a very positive role in de-escalating the Gaza crisis, Egypt, October 25, 2023 in this handout picture courtesy of the Egyptian Presidency.

'Egyptians don't see Israeli determination to defeat Hamas,' Mid. East expert says

By PELED ARBELI

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey halts all trade with Israel, cites worsening Palestinian situation

By REUTERS , 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

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

Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona speaks during the National Action Network National Convention in New York, U.S., April 12, 2023.

Several Jewish organizations boycott a meeting regarding antisemitism with the Education Secretary

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

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

KOJI YAKUSHO and Arisa Nakano in ‘Perfect Days.’

'Perfect Days': Less a movie, more like moving in with a stranger

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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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

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

Protesters in support of Palestinians in Gaza are escorted away by police forces during the evacuation of the Sciences Po University, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Paris, France, May 3, 2024.

French police evacuate anti-Israel students from Sciences Po after overnight sit-in

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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