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AL JAZEERA headquarters in Doha, Qatar.

Government votes to shut down Al Jazeera in Israel

National Unity warns: Could undermine hostage negotiations.

An Israeli medic walks near soldiers and an ambulance after Hamas claimed responsibility for an attack on Kerem Shalom crossing, May 5, 2024.

Seven wounded in Hamas rocket barrage toward Kerem Shalom, aid crossing closed

Israeli police work at the area where a rocket landed in Kiryat Shmona, February 13, 2024

At least two wounded in rocket barrage on Kiryat Shmona

An IDF soldier walks through the Gaza Strip.

Rockets hit Kerem Shalom, Kiryat Shmona; Israel-Hamas hostage deal 'imminent'

Breaking News

Israel accuses Hamas of stonewalling talks, threatens to hit Rafah very soon

Freed Hamas hostage Ori Magidish to light Independence Day torch

Police investigation unit indict officer for whipping judicial overhaul protester

Top News

A drone is seen over the border between Israel and Gaza in June

US Marines official: Nearly half of drones IDF shoots down are its own

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israeli police walk near a security incident scene near the compound known to Muslims as Al-Aqsa or the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, April 1, 2023.

Police prevent terror attack, detain suspect who pulled out knife in Jerusalem's Old City

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

HEZBOLLAH MEMBERS hold flags during a rally marking the annual Hezbollah Martyrs’ Day, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, last month

Enduring aggression: Iran's proxy militias' relentless offensive

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

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

By MAARIV ONLINE

Israeli minister of Transportation Miri Regev holds a press conference ahead of Israel's 75th Independence Day Ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2023.

Miri Regev confirms Israel launched retaliatory strike on Iran

Israel-Hamas War

An IDF sniper in the Gaza Strip

IDF eliminates top Hamas terrorist, destroys Gaza terror infrastructure

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Bezalel Smotrich

Those who are unable to watch Hamas videos should vacate their seats, and quickly

By DR. ORIT MILLER-KATAV

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

Hot Opinion

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

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Columbia riots’ masterminds are after the free world and the West

By AMOTZ ASA-EL

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

Israel News

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

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

IDF missed Sinwar by mere days, national security adviser claims

By MAARIV ONLINE

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

Analysis and Features

Jewish activist captures hate at London pro-Palestinian march, December 9, 2023.

Antisemitism Report: 'October 7 helped spread a fire already out of control'

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

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

Ex-Israeli ambassador: Campus antisemitism is part of an Islamist agenda

By 103FM VIA MAARIV ONLINE

Hamas killing spree haunts Holocaust survivors participating in 'March of the Living'

By REUTERS

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

HEROINES OF SWORDS OF IRON

Ono Conversation Corner

BANK HAPOALIM GATEWAY

Real Estate Listings

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

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

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

YAMAM officers operating at the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin on January 30, 2024

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , MAARIV

Dusty winds are part of a dust storm in Israel

Why are there so many dust storms in the Middle East?

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Looking into the dark reign of Seyyed Ali Khamenei

By ERFAN FARD

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

Looking to scoop up plates. Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah

Hezbollah claims to have targeted Israeli 'radar site'

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

World News

UKRAINE’S PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelensky and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg attend a news conference in Kyiv, last week.

Zelensky is in a predicament in the war against Russia

By SALEM ALKETBI

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

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

Antisemitism / BDS

An NYPD law enforcement official stands guard after establishing a closed perimeter on campus around student protesters at Columbia University during a comprehensive operation to clear campus of protesters in support of Palestinians

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

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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 protester is professional agitator, has criminal record

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

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

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

Artist Lea Gul

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

Mother of four and convert to Judaism, Lea Gul, overcame many obstacles to get where she is today.

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.

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

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

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

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

‘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

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

Kindertransport: Second generation digs up Holocaust baggage

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

Shopping

Reviewing the Best Rodent Repellents of 2024 That Actually Work

By JESSICA SCHOEMAN

The Best Quilting Fabrics on Amazon

By JESSICA SCHOEMAN

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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How can we know what the future holds for us?

By DAVID BERGER

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