In first message from new spokesperson, Hamas admits death of Abu Obeida, Mohammed Sinwar

'They gave me coffee, it was all good': UK Muslim slammed after sharing Ben-Gurion experience

The new Hamas spokesperson in front of an ilustrative image of former Hamas spokesperson Abu Obeida's coffin.

Netanyahu arrives in US for Trump summit seeking freedom on Gaza, Iran, and Lebanon

ANALYSIS
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reach out to shake hands at the White House.
THE RITUAL purification bath (mikveh) from the Second Temple period.

Second Temple period mikveh discovered beneath Western Wall

Israeli firefighters at the scene where a kid in a critical condition after a fire broke at an apartment in Ramot, Jerusalem, December 3, 2025.

Firefighters respond to flooding at special-needs school in Jerusalem amid severe weather

ANALYSIS

Between PA and Turkey, Gaza’s peacekeeping future could reshape Israel’s borders

Prominent British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who was released from prison after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a presidential pardon for him, greets family and friends at their home in Giza, Egypt, September 23, 2025.

Britain was briefed on Alaa Abd El-Fattah's incitement to violence, Egyptian news presenter claims

PROMINENT BRITISH-EGYPTIAN activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who was released from prison after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a presidential pardon for him, stands next to his mother, Laila Soueif, and sister, Sanaa, at home in Giza, Egypt, September 23, 2025.

Alaa Abd-El-Fattah apologizes for comments calling for the killing of Zionists, white people

The Hillel Yaffe hospital in Hadera.

Mentally ill man steals car with infant in back seat at Hadera hospital, baby returned unharmed

MANY ISRAELIS are receiving messages from Iran.

Iran spams Israeli phones, cyber directorate warns recipients to not respond

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, DC, US, September 29, 2025.

Netanyahu should fight ruthlessly for his agenda in Trump meeting

EDITORIAL
US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference in the State Dining Room at the White House, in Washington, DC, US, September 29, 2025

Europe is drifting away from Israel, toward Iran’s worldview

OPINION

A legacy reinforced: Keren Hayesod shows its impact in Israel’s challenging times

Keren Hayesod World Chairman Sam Grundwerg, CEO & Dir Gen Edna Weinstock-Gabay, Dr. Tzachi Slutsky, Soroka Deputy Hospital Manager, visiting ruins from an Iranian missile at Soroka Hospital, Beersheba

Israeli presence in Somaliland will be considered a 'military target,' Houthi leader warns

Trump, Netanyahu talks shaped as much by politics as by policy

ANALYSIS
Supporters of Yemen's Houthi terror group watch a speech by the movement's leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi displayed on a big screen in Sanaa, Yemen July 6, 2025

Netanyahu to meet Trump in Florida, talks to center on Gaza, Iranian missiles, Lebanon

 Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks with Cabinet secretary Tzachi Braverman during the weekly government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 17, 2018.

'Gatekeeper's fall': Handala releases photos, documents allegedly from Braverman's phone

Iranians hold banners of Benjamin Netanyahu during the annual al-Quds Day in Tehran, Iran, March 28, 2025

Iran-linked hack group Handala publishes vaguely threatening poem addressed to Netanyahu

Israel makes high-stakes moral, strategic gamble on Somaliland

OPINION

Iron Beam laser system rolled out across Israel, reshaping air defense

WATCH
Residents wave Somaliland flags as they gather to celebrate Israel's announcement recognising Somaliland's statehood in downtown Hargeisa, on December 26, 2025.

Breakthrough Tel Aviv University study uncovers how skin cancer outsmarts immune system

A 3D immunofluorescent image of melanoma cells (magenta) infected with bacteria (turquoise); cell nuclei are blue

Prosecution backs acquittal of man in 1990 murder, cites rare, exceptional circumstances

Supreme Court justices preside over a hearing at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem, December 1, 2025

Border guards indicted in scheme to smuggle illegal immigrants into Israel

A homemade Islamic State flag located in the vehicle CN59DR, which, according to a court document, is believed to have been used by Sajid and Naveed Akram, suspects in the shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.

When warnings are ignored: Bondi Beach paid the price for tolerated extremism

OPINION
A supporter of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) holds a party flag while posing for a photo in front of the stage ahead of a rally to be attended by BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman after his return from London, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 23, 2025.

Bangladesh's youth-led party shaken by Islamist alliance move

Prominent British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who was released from prison after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a presidential pardon for him, greets family and friends at their home in Giza, Egypt, September 23, 2025.

Starmer, UK gov't face backlash after repatriating Egyptian activist who supported killing Zionists

Supreme Court justices preside over a hearing at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem, December 1, 2025

Israel's High Court hears petitions to halt comptroller's Oct. 7 probe, risking future inquiry

Syria opens criminal investigation into Assad-era mass grave revealed by Reuters

Three policemen, six Islamic State terrorists killed in northwest Turkey clashes

A drone view of the mass grave site in the desert near the eastern Syrian town of Dhumair, February 27, 2025. A Reuters investigation found that the Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies there from an exposed mass grave in the Damascus suburb of Qutayfah from 2019-2021.

Israel Police shut down northern Israel business where terrorist who killed two was employed

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ministers at a 40 signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 8, 2025.

Netanyahu's proposal to open both ways of Rafah crossing is rejected by coalition members - N12

REPORT
PEOPLE HOLD a banner with images of the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia during a rally organised by Yemen's main separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council (STC), in Aden, Yeme

Political chaos in Yemen triggers Saudi Arabia security worries

ANALYSIS

Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens dramatically increased Israel focus in recent months

STUDY

Auschwitz survivor says he feels 'vulnerable' after mezuzah stolen from his Toronto senior home

Far Right influencers Candace Owens (L) and Tucker Carlson (R); illustrative.
OPINION

Qatar’s elite pipeline: How Northwestern’s Doha campus serves the Qatari ruling families

“Of 729 Northwestern University - Qatar graduates from 2014 to 2025, approximately 21 percent bear surnames from the Al-Thani royal family or 11 other elite Qatari dynasties.”
ByGREGG ROMAN

Tucker Carlson claims Israel's influence made radical Islam be seen as main threat for Americans

Tucker Carlson speaks during AmericaFest, the first Turning Point USA summit since the death of Charlie Kirk, in Phoenix, Arizona, US December 18, 2025.

NSW Premier doesn't rule out deploying army to protect Sydney’s Jewish community

Bita Shafiei walks free: Iranian activist released on bail following prison stint

Trilateral work plan for military cooperation between Israel, Greece, Cyprus signed

EXCLUSIVE
Bita Shafiei moments after her release from prison, December 27, 2025.

2025 deadliest year on record for Arab society in Israel, Abraham Initiatives report finds

 Israel Police during operation in Israel's North to thwart murder attempts, April 27, 2025. (Ilustrative)

In show of defiance, Iran launches new satellites ahead of Netanyahu-Trump summit

The Safir satellite-carrier rocket, which was designed for Iran's Omid satellite, is seen before launch at Iran's space centre in Tehran in 2009

Court clears Beersheba assault suspect of link to Haymanut Kasau disappearance, extends detention

Israel launches national space lab to lower barriers for domestic satellite, space tech development

Israeli firm that detects divers and submarines considers listing on Tel Aviv exchange

Satellite in Space.
INTERVIEW

Israel’s defense-tech revolution: How MAFAT is shaping the evolution of Israel's warfare

 The Barak medium-range surface-to-air missile system.

Anti-Israel Colombia integrates IAI's Barak air defense system

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a ceremony for the 70th cohort of military combat officers, at an army base near Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, October 31, 2024

Netanyahu: Israel to spend $110 billion on independent arms industry

France elected to lead International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2027

Three killed as Alawite protest in Syria’s Latakia turns violent

French flag in France

Justice Dept. sentences al-Shabaab terrorist for planning 9/11-inspired plane hijacking, crash plot

Cholo Abdi Abdullah training as a pilot as part of an al-Shabaab plot to attack on US soil.

Central Indonesia cancels New Year fireworks, celebrations as nation mourns Sumatra flood victims

Two schoolgirls (front) wade through a street flooded by high tide in Muara Baru, Jakarta on December 6, 2025.

China launches war games around Taiwan as island vows to defend democracy

A Taiwan Coast Guard ship patrols near Dadan Island as China's Xiamen is visible in the background, on Dadan Island, in Kinmen, Taiwan, October 18, 2025.

Why was Gal Gadot Chosen to be the 2026 Laureate of the $1 Million Genesis Prize?

STAN POLOVETS, Co-Founder and Chairman of The Genesis Prize Foundation / Gal Gadot

Chatam: The Anglo community in Rehovot you’ve probably never heard of

Rabbi Ashenberg, together with participants at the Semichas Chaver Siyum in Jerusalem

Ester Ben David’s Zionist blueprint for building a stronger state

Ester Ben David and her team: “They are my rock.”

'New beginning': Mizrahi-Tefahot launches savings grant for Israeli children born since Oct. 7

Smotrich threatens to double tax on Israeli banks if consumer benefits canceled

 A man uses an ATM at Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot in Tel Aviv, Israel November 22, 2021. Picture taken November 22, 2021.

Israel launches NIS 15 million initiative to bring Druze, Circassians into tech industry

ISRAELI AND Druze flags at the entrance to the northern Druze village of Hurfeish on November 29 2023.

New Israeli airline recruiting pilots as commercial operations set to start in 2026

A Tus Airways Airbus A320-200 is seen landing at Ben-Gurion Airport, in Israel, July 12, 2021

Delta launches service that will change the flying experience once and for all – Israel included

Rain, snow hit Israel as powerful winter system sparks flood warnings, road rescues

Religiosity among Israelis determines what they're willing to do about climate crisis

STUDY
Snow seen on Mount Hermon on December 28, 2025.b

Winter weather in US Northeast leads to thousands of flight delays, cancellations

Coastal cliffs collapse between Hefer Valley and Netanya, December 28, 2025.

Coastal cliffs between Hefer Valley, Netanya collapse due to heavy rainfall from Storm Byron

FILLING A stainless-steel bottle in the corridor’s dispenser at Hilton Paris Opera.

Refill era here to stay? Luxury hotels ditching bottled water

Petah Tikva declared 'red city' for measles outbreak, six-month-old children to be vaccinated

Pharmacies report localized shortages as weight-loss injection Mounjaro arrives in Israel

Cases of the measles rise in Israel.

Israeli health officials call for sanctions on anti-vaxxers as flu morbidity rate rises

STUDY

Babies begin forming expectations of their parents as early as their first year

Why spending time with grandchildren can ease war trauma for Israel's seniors

From visiting to belonging: Micol Radzik's path to aliyah

Israel expected to advance aliyah emergency aid plan for new immigrants

Micol Radzik on the Tayelet in Tel Aviv, 2019.

'Come home!': FM Gideon Sa’ar urges Diaspora Jews to make aliyah to Israel

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar at the Knesset, December 2, 2025; illustrative.

Israel advancing emergency aliyah plans in wake of Bondi Beach massacre

Ofir Sofer (middle), Rabbi Eli Schlanger (Far right)
POLL

'Eyeing the exits': Nearly half of British Jews don't feel welcome in UK, don't see future

 Demonstrators hold Israeli and British flags outside the Law Courts, during a march against antisemitism, after an increase in the UK, during a temporary truce between the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and Israel, in London, Britain November 26, 2023.

It’s all about the timing

Beersheba’s southern command to be vacated and transformed into a residential and leisure complex

Louis Marshall 2-4 Tel Aviv.

Festive tenders: Thousands of apartments on the way - Ma'ale Adumim in focus

Urban Renewal.

Nice presentations, less reality: Supervision in urban renewal under criticism

Construction Site.

Construction starts surge, transactions stall: More declines ahead?

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Diplomatic Conference, September 2025

Conference   

The Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference at the Friends of Zion Museum, in Jerusalem, September 16, 2025

LIVE: The Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference - where diplomacy meets the future

Building tomorrow, today: Jerusalem Post Washington Conference heads to Capitol Hill

'Biggest issue in Israeli society': First Lady Michal Herzog at 'Post' Trauma Conference

MDA Heroes   

 Michaela Berku: "Doing good is the best therapy."

Michaela Berku on volunteering, MDA, and saving lives through service

MDA Women's Circle launches new year with "Adopt a Paramedic" initiative

'I’ll keep showing up': MDA paramedic who saved dozens on Oct 7 recounts 600 days

Podcasts   

The Deep Dive: 2025 recap

2025 recap: A year of triumph, resilience, and shifting tides

'I’m not religious but I started praying': Bondi survivor Arsen Ostrovsky speaks

Professor Michael Edelstein: Measles outbreak and the trust gap in vaccines

US Politics   

 NYC democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani against backdrop of pro-Palestinian protesters. (illustration)

Newest member of Mamdani's inaugural committee praised people tearing Israeli hostage posters

White House orders US forces to focus on 'quarantine' of Venezuelan oil for next two months

Discovery of a million more potential Epstein documents delays further releases

Diaspora   

ETHIOPIAN JEWS take part in a prayer of the Sigd holiday on the Armon Hanatziv Promenade overlooking Jerusalem, in November 2025.

Zionism didn’t start in Europe, and Ethiopian Jews can prove it

Why President Herzog reaffirms the shared destiny of Israel and the Jewish world

Mezuzahs torn from Toronto seniors’ apartment building in second incident in month

Judaism   

DESPITE BEING fully recognized by the Chief Rabbinate, many Orthodox converts are living in legal and social limbo, denied citizenship, as they face systemic bureaucracy and discrimination at the Interior Ministry. Here, women pray at the Western Wall.

Recognized by rabbinate, Orthodox converts trapped in Israeli legal limbo

When brothers reunite: Ezekiel’s prophecy and Israel’s deepest divide

Parashat Vayigash: A shoulder of tears

Christian World   

Tour Guide Ofek Ron Carmel leads Israeli tourists from all backgrounds through the cobblestone streets of Mi’ilya. They wear Santa hats to be festive and keep their ears warm.

A look at Israel's winter wonderland in the Galilee, where Christmas comes to life

Christian communities grow slowly as share of population falls in Middle East, North Africa

Christmas passes peacefully in the Middle East

Food   

RAZIEL WINES.

Mamilla Hotel hosts wine weekend, attracting Israelis from all over the country

Cocktail party: Raising a glass to 2026 with the stories behind your favorite drinks

Carlton hotel in Tel Aviv: Where breakfast is a meal to be savored

Archaeology   

Rare Byzantine-era gold coins discovered at the Hyrcania archaeological site in the northern Judean Desert.

Byzantine-era coins, ring discovered in Judean Desert point to Christian presence in region

Archaeologists find 2,000-year-old labyrinth that reveals India’s role in ancient global trade

Oldest evidence of transport technology uncovered in White Sands, New Mexico

Science   

An AI generated illustrative image of a nuclear power plant on the surface of the Moon, with the Earth seen in the background.

Russia plans a nuclear power plant on Moon within a decade

A newly discovered species complicates the human origin story

The world is pushing for nuclear fusion energy. Israel has the keys to crack it

Culture   

Former hostages Matan Zangauker and Ilana Gritzwesky got engaged.

Former Gaza hostages Matan Zangauker, Ilana Gritzwesky announce engagement

French actress, icon, advocate: Brigitte Bardot passes away at 91

State Cup weekend sees Beitar comeback and dominant displays by top clubs

History   

The entrance of the former German Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, Germany.

From Auschwitz to Dachau: How a pharmacist became central to Nazi camp medical crimes

This week in Jewish history: Yearning for Zion

Inside the Jewish Brigade’s untold Holocaust survivor rescue operations

OMG   

eople look at the artifacts found during the construction of the new metro line at the Colosseum metro station which promise to dazzle locals and tourists with museum-like displays of archaeological discoveries, in Rome, Italy December 16, 2025.

New Rome metro stations showcase ancient treasures after years of delays

Trump tells children, 'US military is tracking Santa' at NORAD's Christmas calls event

Amanda Seyfried learns about Shaker founder for film ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’

Consumerism   

Airwallex Team.

Investors eye growth: Airwallex raises $330M in successful funding round

Narin Ammara turns adversity into ambition with the upcoming launch of Narins Beauty

Wood, bamboo, and warm light: Celebrate Hanukkah with green and unique design

Astrology   

Horoscope.

Daily Horoscope for December 15, 2025 – all Zodiac signs

Daily Horoscope for December 11, 2025 – all Zodiac signs

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President-CEO Eric Fingerhut addressing attendees at the 2024 General Assembly.

“We know what needs to be done”: Eric Fingerhut enters JPost DC Conference with hopefulness

Chen G. Schimmel and the demands for truth: A new generation bearing witness

From vision to action

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