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An IDF tank operates in the Gaza Strip. May 2, 2024.

ICC warns Netanyahu, UK sanctions Israeli groups over West Bank violence

US sends warplanes to Qatar• Saraya Al-Ashtar claims attack on Israel • Israeli strike reported in Syria

International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan speaks during an interview with Reuters about the violence in Israel and Gaza in The Hague, Netherlands October 12, 2023

ICC prosecutor in veiled warning to Netanyahu: Stop intimidation tactics

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to a discussion and a vote on the expulsion of MK Ofer Cassif at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, February 19, 2024.

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

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron visits Kibbutz Be’eri in November. So far, the new British Middle East policy pays off, building bridges of trust with the Israeli side, the writer maintains.

Britain sanctions Israeli groups for violence in West Bank

Breaking News

Russia says it has driven Ukrainian army from 211 square miles of territory this year

Yemen's Houthis say they will target ships heading for Israel anywhere within range

Russia says it will retaliate if Denmark restricts ship movement

Top News

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

"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

HATEM BAZIAN, chairman of American Muslims for Palestine, speaks in 2013 alongside one of the organization’s advertisements at a train station in New York City, accusing Israel of apartheid and calling for a stop to US aid.

October 7 victims sue SJP, AMP for serving as Hamas propaganda arm

By MICHAEL STARR

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

By AMOTZ ASA-EL

Minister Amichai Chikli speaks at the Jerusalem Post 2023 Annual Conference in New York, June 5, 2023

Chikli: Pro-Palestinian protesters' calls for retribution on Israel are not justified

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israel-Hamas War

DEMONSTRATORS CALL for the release of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip, this week in Tel Aviv. ‘One thing is made consistently clear by this government: The hostages are not the top priority,’ the writer asserts.

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

By TAMAR URIEL-BEERI

Maintainers and senior leaderships from the 1st Fighter Wing salute F-22 Raptors from the 1st Fighter Wing, 27th Fighter Squadron as it taxis to take-off during a deployment to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, from Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, U.S

US transfers fighter jets to Qatar in move to prevent Iran escalation

By MAARIV , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Mossad director David Barnea chats with Shin Bet director Ronen Bar.

Mossad, Shin Bet, and IDF intel. issue group message for first time since Oct 7

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey halts all trade with Israel, cites worsening Palestinian situation

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Hamas official Osama Hamdan attends a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon, March 20, 2024

Senior Hamas official in Lebanon signals: 'We made it clear that our position is negative'

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

Seder night gave us a chance to pause and remember those lost in the war

By ANDREA SAMUELS

The war has taken its toll, Israel needs investments in innovation - opinion

By BOAZ GOLANY

This Passover Jews must fight for liberation

By WILLIAM DAROFF

Israel News

GILBOA PRISON, in northern Israel near the West Bank.

Prominent Gaza doctor dies in Israeli prison

Israel Ziv

'There is no importance to military action in Rafah,' Former IDF Maj.-Gen. says

Billboards promising the end of the Ayatollah regime cover Israeli cities, stir rumors in Iran

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

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

Israel-Hamas war: What happened on day 209?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Analysis and Features

THE RESULTS OF a February 5 Iranian drone attack on a Syrian Democratic Forces training facility at al-Omar, Deir al Zur, Syria.

US shows no apparent strategy to counter Kataib Hezbollah's attacks

By JONATHAN SPYER

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

Over half of campus protestors arrested by NYPD unaffiliated with the schools

By HANNAH SARISOHN

Campus protests: Back to the ’60s, but with a nasty twist

THE WRITER addresses students at Adelphi University’s 2018 Matriculation Day.

A lesson from Nazi Germany for university presidents amid tidal wave of antisemitism

By DAVID MACHLIS

HEROINES OF SWORDS OF IRON

Ono Conversation Corner

BANK HAPOALIM GATEWAY

Real Estate Listings

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

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?

Market Data

Middle East

Lebanese army members stand near a poster of Fadi Bejjani who died during exchange of fire at the area where a truck was overturned the previous night, in the town of Kahaleh, Lebanon August 10, 2023.

Lebanese political leader sounds the alarm on Hezbollah

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu holds a news conference in Jerusalem in March. He has been through a lot, but nothing like this, the writer maintains.

Netanyahu's impossible dilemma: To make a hostage deal or not

Cabinet set to approve Netanyahu, Karhi's decision to close Al Jazeera in Israel

By ELIAV BREUER

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on, as U.S. President Joe Biden (not pictured) speaks about the conflict in Israel, after Hamas launched its biggest attack in decades, while making a statement about the crisis, at the White House in Washington, U.S. October 7, 2023

US warns against pending Rafah op., Netanyahu vows to push ahead

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Dror Or, a resident of Kibbutz Be'eri murdered on October 7 whose body was taken by Hamas to Gaza.

Dror Or killed on October 7, body taken by Hamas - Kibbutz Be'eri

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

World News

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

An official slides down a rope during a helicopter raid on MSC Aries ship at sea in this screen grab obtained from a social media video released on April 13, 2024.

Iran says crew of Israel-linked ship freed

A boy sits atop a hill overlooking a refugee camp near the Chad-Sudan border, November 9, 2023. Hundreds of Masalit families from Sudan's West Darfur state were relocated here months after fleeing to the Chadian border town of Adre, following an ethnically targeted massacre in El Geneina.

Attack on ICRC convoy in Sudan's South Darfur kills two drivers, wounds three

Students take part in a protest encampment in support of Palestinians at the Columbia University campus, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, US, April 28, 2024.

Columbia professor Shai Davidai: 'I'm just asking for equal treatment'

By HANNAH SARISOHN

Pedestrians walk past the flags for the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, May 1, 2024.

Swedish Police approve Quran burning event in Malmo ahead of Eurovision

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Antisemitism / BDS

An "Intifada" banner waves over Columbia University after students seize Hamilton Hall on 116th Street in New York City, April 30, 2024.

Rethinking free speech as hate speech and violence spread

By JPOST EDITORIAL

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.

Former Dartmouth Jewish studies chair thrown to the ground by police as 90 protesters arrested

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA

Police use a special vehicle to enter Hamilton Hall which protesters occupied, as other officers enter the campus of Columbia University, New York City, US, April 30, 2024.

Jewish groups demand further action to combat antisemitism at Columbia

By LUKE TRESS/JTA

The former concentration camp Auschwitz

Palestinian man visits Auschwitz, publicly calls on Jews to return there 'where they belong'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A protester holds a flag as he sits on a traffic light post during a pro-Palestine demonstration outside Downing Street in London, Britain, June 12, 2021

UK Pro-Palestine bus driver removed Israeli passenger for commenting on pro-Palestine symbol

By JOSH ARONSON

Environment & Climate Change

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

RECENTLY BACK-IN-HIS-CIVVIES paratrooper Aaron Seitler sets off on his fundraising cross-country hike.

Blue and white in green: A released IDF soldier's hike through Israel

JPost Spotlight

Abigail Idan, who was released after being taken hostage during the October 7 attack on Israel by the terrorist group Hamas, smiles on the lap of her aunt Liron at Schneider Children's Medical Center, November 27, 2023.

Emotional clip of orphaned Hamas victim dancing with uncle goes viral

The two are seen dancing happily together on a balcony against the backdrop of the York York City skyline.

US PRESIDENT Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman walk side by side at a Gulf Cooperation Council meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, earlier this year.

US-Saudis close to defense pact, calm in Gaza needed to advance — Miller

“There are a few details [on the defense pact] that we have to continue to work through, but we think we can reach agreement on those details in very short order,” Miller said.

LONG BEFORE Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich were anywhere near the Israeli government, the world was fiercely critical of Israel. So much for blaming Israel’s hasbara problems on the Israeli right wing, the writer asserts.

An anti-Israel media is nothing new: A walk through Western cartoons

These cartoons are from 1988, when Shimon Peres was the alternate PM and FM, Yitzhak Rabin was the defense minister, and Yitzhak Navon was the education and culture minister (all of the Labor gov't).

A SURVIVOR lights a torch at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021.

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Six stories of survival, resilience

The heart-wrenching Holocaust stories of Pnina Hefer, Allegra Gutta, Arie Eitani, Raisa Brodsky, Michael Bar-On, and Izi Kabilio.

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

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

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

Boxes of Ozempic, a semaglutide injection drug used for treating type 2 diabetes made by Novo Nordisk, is seen at a Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, U.S. March 29, 2023.

Ozempic helps HIV patients, not just diabetics and celebrities losing weight - study

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

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Arab-Israeli Conflict

Palestinian Ambassador to Egypt Diab al-Louh speaks during an interview with Reuters at the Palestine embassy in Cairo, Egypt April 30, 2024.

Palestinian Embassy seeks temporary status for Gazans who entered Egypt during war

Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants attend a military parade in Gaza October 19, 2016.

Hamas slams Palestinian Authority for killing PIJ terrorist in Tulkarm

Science

A book containing George Washington’s personal copies of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, displayed at Christie’s auction house in New York.

What causes bookworms to digest old books?

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

A 99-million-year-old bug that lived in Myanmar discovered by Israeli researchers.

A 99-million-year-old bug that lived in Myanmar discovered by Israeli researchers

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

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

A Jerusalem excavation site bearing signs of the 750 BCE earthquake destruction

Israeli researchers map out timeline of ancient Jerusalem

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

US Politics

US senate floor

Republicans blame Biden for campus protests, Democrats take middle ground

By HANNAH SARISOHN

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL candidate and former US president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Rome, Georgia, in early March.

US study shows voters willing to be morally flexible when it comes to politicians

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Diaspora

A person holds a Palestinian flag as people take part in the occupation of a street in front of the building of the Sciences Po University in support of Palestinians in Gaza, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Paris, France, April 26, 2024.

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

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A HOLOCAUST survivor examines foodstuffs she received from a nonprofit aiding impoverished survivors, in Beit Shemesh.

Echoes of struggle: half of Holocaust survivors unable to afford food, medicine

By ELI ASHKENAZI

Judaism

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

Parashat Aharei Mot: Holiness of the family

By RABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ

A scene from the documentary series The Jewish Underground,

Halachic State vs Caliphate: How do Jewish extremists differ from Islamist extremists? - opinion

Food

Tnuva hikes food prices after January NIS 200 m. dividend issue

By MOSHE COHEN , EVE YOUNG

Smoothies

Simple and sweet recipes for Passover and all year round

Culture

A TORCH burns on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl, 2017

Israel announces 2024 Independence Day torchbearers amidst war

PEOPLE WATCH the military air show as part of Israel’s 75th Independence Day celebrations, from Sacher Park in Jerusalem, in April. To identify as Zionist today is as relevant and powerful as it ever was, the writer maintains.

This is what this year’s Independence Day torch-lighting ceremony will look like amid the war

By MAARIV ONLINE

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

Ella Chaimi

New baby boy brings joy to widow of Hamas victim

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF

Amidst tension with Syria, IDF Reserve infantrymen take part in a military maneuver of their battalion in Golan Heights, on April 1, 2024.

Reporter’s notebook: Covering Israel’s war-torn north is an exercise in dodging danger

By URIEL HEILMAN/JTA

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