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(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

Yahya Sinwar, Hamas's Gaza chief, has yet to make his response known, further complicating the situation.

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

Israel gives Hamas one-week deadline, ICC warns Netanyahu

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

Breaking News

Three bodies found in area where Australian, US tourists went missing

Hamas confirms its delegation to visit Cairo on Saturday, Hamas official says

Canada police arrest 'hit squad members' linked to murder of Sikh leader Nijjar, says CBC

Top News

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

Elyakim Shlomo Libman

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) attends a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on voting rights on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, April 20, 2021.

Sen Graham to 'Post': Senate won't pass US-Saudi pact without Israeli normalization

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

'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

Israel-Hamas War

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

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

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

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

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

GILBOA PRISON, in northern Israel near the West Bank.

Prominent Gaza doctor dies in Israeli prison

Settler arrested on suspicion of murdering Palestinian boy during riots in April

By YUVAL BARNEA

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

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.

Aid provided to Holocaust survivors by National Insurance Institute

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Analysis and Features

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

An illustrative image of the KKK.

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

By MICHAEL FREUND

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

By TAMAR URIEL-BEERI

Kindertransport: Second generation digs up Holocaust baggage

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

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

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'

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

Columbia/CCNY protest arrests by the NYPD.

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

By HANNAH SARISOHN

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

A STUDENT DEMONSTRATION and riot at Columbia University in New York, in 1968.

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

By AMOTZ ASA-EL

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Antisemitism / BDS

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

Nick Fuentes is hosting another white nationalist conference in Orlando during CPAC

‘It is better to have anti whatever out in the open’: Nick Fuentes to be reinstated on Musk's X

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

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

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

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

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

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

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Tamar Uriel-Beeri and Zvika Klein.

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.

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

The Tattooist of Auschwitz is more visually accurate than many other Holocaust dramas, with inmates looking disheveled and dirty. The violence is also appropriately graphic.

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

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

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

Israel Ziv

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

HAIM GAN, wine entrepreneur and educator, decanting a large bottle of Castel Grand Vin.

Haim Gan: A hero of Israeli wine

By ADAM MONTEFIORE

Tiny Ocean

Jerusalem highlights May 3-9

By HAGAY HACOHEN

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

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

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The former concentration camp Auschwitz

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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