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Israel must act now and end Gaza war or lose Arab support for peace

If moderate Muslim states keep looking over their shoulders while Tehran empties the table, then Israel could miss its golden opportunity to expand the Abraham Accords.

From Tehran to terror tunnels: Netanyahu’s pivot back to Gaza

SIGNING THE Abraham Accords (from L): Bahrain’s Foreign Affairs Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayan; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; US president Donald Trump; and the UAE’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, at the White House, Sept. 15,

Israel would offer temporary ceasefire if Hamas lays down weapons, IDF soldier killed in Khan Yunis

Soldier found dead on southern Israel base • Houthi missile triggers sirens across central Israel, Jerusalem, intercepted by IDF

IDF soldiers operating throughout the Gaza Strip, July 9, 2025.

Master Sergeant (Res.) Abraham Azulay

Staff-Sergeant-Major Abraham Azulay killed in Khan Yunis during attempted abduction

Azulay was killed during an operational mission in Khan Younis after terrorists emerging from a tunnel attempted to abduct him.

IDF intercepts Houthi missile that triggered sirens in central Israel, Jerusalem

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (L) with then-Iranian defense minister Amir Hatami, November 2020.

Inside the risky shooting orders behind the assassination of Iran’s nuclear chief

'You’re killing Palestine, go eat in Gaza': Spanish restaurant manager kicks out group of Israelis

Israeli Prof. Shai Davidai resigns from Columbia on same day as harassment investigation dropped

TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization last week in Khankendi, Azerbaijan.

Why Erdogan, not Netanyahu, is the real threat to Middle East peace

UN Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese gives a press conference at the UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark February 5, 2025.

Rubio imposes sanctions on UN's Albanese over 'political, economic warfare' against Israel, US

Hussein, son of Wissam Tawil, a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces who, according to the group, was killed during an Israeli strike on south Lebanon, holds his picture at a memorial ceremony to mark one week since his killing, in Khirbet Silem, southern Lebanon, January 14, 2024.

Hezbollah's Radwan Unit 'unfit' to carry out large-scale invasion into Israel

US Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Democrat, speaks during a Democratic Steering and Policy Committee hearing in the US Capitol on April 10, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Jewish Democrats in Congress raise concerns about Zohran Mamdani’s anti-Israel positions

Meuhedet launches AI-powered service for members

This new service enables members to ask questions, receive information, and perform medical-related tasks explained in simple terms, without navigating complex menus

Meuhedet launches new AI system to help members interact with their HMO.

Israel at War

Israel at War

There is significant progress in hostage talks following new Israeli proposal, source tells 'Post'

Netanyahu said, “I believe there’s a good chance we will reach a ceasefire, and it will bring us closer to the goal I have set.”

US D-9 bulldozers worth billions of shekels arrive in Israel after Trump admin. releases shipment

Demonstrators take part in a protest to demand the immediate release of all hostages held in Gaza since the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas, near the US Consulate in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 7, 2025.

What is the Morag Corridor and why is it important?

Displaced Palestinians fill water at a tent camp, in Gaza City, May 20, 2025.

Gaza plan likened to Nazi camps, sparks condemnation and political storm

Conference at Knesset included rare speeches by Saudi and Syrian nationals.

'Gaza remains main obstacle to regional peace deal,' leading Saudi journalist tells 'Post'

Israel News

Israel News

Better mobile reception on trains? Israel Railways to improve service, WiFi on trains

The Transportation and Communications ministries announced a NIS 68 million plan to improve cellular reception for passengers traveling on Israel Railways.

October 7 and beyond: Hamas's use of sexual violence was systematic weapon of war, report finds

Israel Railways trains

Deri and Lapid clash over IDF draft law, sanctions on ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students

A view of the Shas party offices in Jerusalem, June 4, 2025

OPINION

Israelis oppose gender segregation

WOMEN AND children at a separate beach in Haifa. Supporters of separation see it as pluralism allowing religious people to operate in the public sphere while maintaining their lifestyles, the writer notes.

ByASIF EFRAT

Over 120 former MKs oppose Ayman Odeh's removal in joint letter

Spotlight

Illustrative image of a dairy cow.

600 cows return to rebuilt Kibbutz Kissufim dairy farm nearly two years later

ETGAR KERET receives a Lifetime Achievement award from Roni Kuban.

ACUM awards music and literature prizes

Former hostages, Sapir Cohen and Sasha Troufanov announce engagement, July 9, 2025.

Gaza hostage survivors Sasha Troufanov and Sapir Cohen announce engagement

LAWRENCE BENDER: I worked really hard to support all my friends, and then no one was there for us after October 7 – and that was very disheartening.

Producer Lawrence Bender to receive lifetime achievement award at J’lem film fest

Analyses & Features

Analyses & Features

Jewish schools, families poised for windfall under new federal tax-credit program

The $1,700 federal tax credit to support private school tuition delivers a long-sought victory to Orthodox Jewish advocacy groups and other religious education proponents.

Amid the chaos: A Palestinian reflection on Trump's strategic opportunity for the Mideast

Orthodox Jewish children get off a Yeshiva school bus, as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency in parts of Brooklyn in response to a measles outbreak, in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, US, April 9, 2019.

The West clings to the two-state myth—but Arab leaders are moving on

IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a televised message last month. One could argue that he despises Azerbaijan almost as much as he despises the US, says the writer.

Khamenei’s personal hatred of Azerbaijan

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump uses a gavel after signing the sweeping spending and tax legislation known as the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act,’ at the White House last week.

Why is Trump hurting red states?

Business & Innovation

Business & Innovation

Israel’s EV charging chaos needs a credit card, not another app

The digital bureaucracy of Israel’s electric vehicle (EV) charging market reflects a fundamental market failure, but there are simple technological solutions.

Turkey blocks X's Grok chatbot for alleged insults to Erdogan

Electric vehicles now as reliable and durable as petrol and diesel cars, study finds.

OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends an event to pitch AI for businesses in Tokyo, Japan, February 3, 2025; illustrative.

Nvidia-backed Perplexity launches AI-powered browser to take on Google Chrome

X CEO Yaccarino to step down in surprise move

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Most Influential Jews

DHGATE

Craft Resumes

MDA Heroes

Antisemitism

Antisemitism

Melbourne’s night of shame

The explosion of antisemitism in Australia is a serious problem, shattering its image as a tolerant, welcoming country.

Faculty are source of US campus antisemitism, Yad Vashem head says

‘FREE PALESTINE’ is scrawled on a Melbourne synagogue last month. Over the past 21 months, Australia’s image as a tolerant, diverse, welcoming country has been shattered, the writer charges.

REPORT

Google co-founder slams UN as 'antisemitic' in internal forum

Google co-founder Sergey Brin at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos in 2017.

Trump admin. to subpoena Harvard for info on antisemitism, harassment by foreign students

Demonstrators rally on Cambridge Common in a protest organized by the City of Cambridge calling on Harvard leadership to resist interference at the university by the federal government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. April 12, 2025.

Three charged with assault, criminal damage following attack on Israeli restaurant in Melbourne

World News

World News

Trump asks Liberian president where he learned English, his country's official language

"Such good English," Trump told Liberian President Joseph Boakai. "Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?"

Paris court extends detention of Iranian woman held on terrorism charges

Several African leaders, including Liberian President Joseph Boakai, sit with US President Donald Trump on July 9, 2025.

Russia recruiting unknowing suicide bombers as part of shadow war against Ukraine

Palestinians seeking aid gather near an aid distribution site in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 27, 2025

Former DOGE official rushed grant to GHF, skips mandatory anti-fraud safeguards

Maxyne Finkelstein President of the Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation

'It’s amazing to see what education can do'

In Collaboration

Lydia: A lifeline for PTSD sufferers and their families

In collab with:

Anish

YULIA FRIDMAN (L) & CHEN SHAKLIAR: "Our idea was to develop an app that would accompany people on their journey of living with PTSD".

How "I Belong. Israel (Masa Israeli)" Created a New Educational Model

In collab with:

Belong. Israel (Masa Israeli)

Where love for Israel meets core values – a group of teens on a recent journey

Incredible investment to develop the center of our homeland

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The Getter Group

Herzliya Marina Aerial View

Middle East

Middle East

Lebanon’s long overdue reckoning

Hezbollah’s claims about Israel's colonial ambitions in Lebanon do not stand the test of Israel-Lebanon’s history.

Houthi-attacked Greek ship in Red Sea sinks: Four dead, seven rescued, 14 missing

HEZBOLLAH LEADER Sheikh Naim Qassem delivers an address earlier this year. Recently he affirmed that ‘liberation is a duty, no matter how long it takes.’

ANALYSIS

Pro-Iran militia leader claims US interference in Iraq’s PMF legislation

Members of Iraqi security forces salute during a military parade held by Iraq's army, Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), and the Police force during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the defeat of the Islamic State (IS) group, in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on December 2024.

ANALYSIS

PKK moves towards peace: Ocalan’s historic appeal for a democratic future

A demonstrator holds a picture of jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan during a rally in Diyarbakir, Turkey, February 27, 2025.

ANALYSIS

When less is more: Why Netanyahu's meeting with Trump felt different

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US President Donald Trump at the White House, in Washington DC, US, July 8, 2025

Environment & Climate Change

Environment & Climate Change

European heatwave caused 2,300 deaths, scientists estimate

Last month was the planet's third-hottest June on record, behind the same month in 2024 and 2023, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service said in a monthly bulletin on Wednesday.

Thousands flee wildfires in Turkey as Europe is hit by early heatwave

A helicopter flies over smoke rising from a fast-moving wildfire spreading on the outskirts of Marseille, southern France, July 8, 2025.

Tropical storm Chantal hits South Carolina, moves inland with flooding threat, NHC says

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Turtle illegally smuggled onto El Al plane escapes, bites another passenger

Turtle illegally smuggled from US escapes on plane, bites passenger.

Palestinian smugglers arrested with protected birds taped to their bodies

Health & Wellness

Health & Wellness

Missile fire and sleepless nights: How Israelis are battling fatigue after the war with Iran

Following war with Iran thousands of Israelis are still struggling to return to healthy sleep routines — and many are suffering from extreme fatigue.

New study reveals psychological impact of twin separation during Hamas-Israel War

People take shelter in an underground parking lot in Tel Aviv, during ongoing missile attacks from Iran, June 24, 2025.

Poor housing conditions linked to national health issues, Hebrew U. researchers find

Childhood obesity is a rising epidemic.

New obesity definition highlights higher mortality risk for US adults

Israel's High Court of Justice

Israeli High Court blocks fast-track bid to undo gender change

Aliyah

Aliyah

Bavarian policeman keeps job after wishing Holocaust survivor gets sent to camps

The police officer worked as a personal protection officer between 2016 and 2020, at which point he was banned.

Exploring aliyah under fire: Tel Aviv visitor's journey begins amid a barrage of missiles

Frontex’s Executive Director Hans Leijtens speaks to German and Greek border police during his visit at the border between Bulgaria and Turkey, near Kapitan Andreevo, Bulgaria, February 29, 2024.

Undeterred by war, over 2,000 immigrants expected to arrive in Israel this summer

Reflections on almost 48 years of aliyah: An American family arrives and grows

'We understand why we're here': New olim share their aliyah experiences

Israel Real Estate

Israel Real Estate

From real estate to reality: How the Alma project built a bridge between Israel and the US

When Jews from Great Neck and Kings Point bought 50 homes in Alma, Kiryat Ono, they built more than real estate - they sparked a historic bond, leading to a sister city pact with US towns.

14 HaRav Kook – Where luxury meets the sea

Alma project - Cnaan Group

Now is the time to live by the sea in Gush Dan

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A new flavor in the heart of Gush Dan: The 'Umami' neighborhood surprises young people

Visualization – Umami Project in Kiryat Ono

The scenario that could reignite Israel’s real estate market

Sunrise in the Dan Region, December 25, 2017

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Read Israel news in easy Hebrew with Ivrit

The Ivrit magazine is for people with basic reading abilities in Hebrew who want to improve their knowledge of the language.

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The International Jerusalem Post, a weekly digest, publishes the best of the Jerusalem Post's news for the readers abroad.

Conference

NYC Mayor Eric Adams, Israeli Minister Nir Barkat sign economic partnership at The Jerusalem Post's Annual Conference in New York, US, May 19, 2025'

NYC Mayor Eric Adams, Israeli Economics Minister Nir Barkat sign economic partnership

Trump admin. stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel, Steve Witkoff says

ANeustart wins Next-Gen Women entrepreneurship award at Jerusalem Post Women Leaders Summit

MDA Heroes

A Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance at an Ofakim MDA station.

Reflecting on Oct. 7: 'Everyone knew exactly what they needed to do'

Meet the medic who understood on Oct. 7 she must do everything to save a child

MDA hero: We’re here for each and every person who is sick or injured

Podcasts

Amazing vistas from the infinity pool at Dukley Hotels & Resort

Dukley, Montenegro: A stunning view and kosher options too

Chief Rabbi denounces South African government for supporting Iran

Why should Israelis move down to the Negev?

US Politics

Former CIA, FBI directors under FBI criminal investigation over Trump-Russia probe conduct

Religious institutions may endorse candidates in US, undoing a longstanding ban by IRS

Trump’s DOJ shuts down Epstein theories, declares death suicide

Diaspora

Firemen evacuate a murdered person after the French-Jewish delicatessen restaurant Jo Goldenberg in Paris was attacked by Palestinian terrorist gunmen that threw a grenade into the restaurant and shot at customers with sub-machine guns, killing six customers and injuring 22 others, August 8, 1982.

French prosecutors seek trial of six over 1982 attack on Jewish restaurant

Thieves mistakenly take historic Masonic banner believing it was a Jewish Star, owners claim

Five facts on Superman’s Jewish immigrant origins and James Gunn’s reboot

Judaism

An illustrative image of a hospital bed.

Jewish ethical dilemma: What does Halacha say about coercing medical treatment?

The first Zionist diplomat: How Theodor Herzl changed Jewish and world history

25 touchstones for a moral compass: Lessons from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Christian World

Ancient church in Taybeh set on fire by Israeli settlers

Last Christian West Bank town calls on global community to assist against settler violence

Praying the world halts climate change? There's now a Catholic Mass for that

Protesters break into Greek Orthodox Church in Nazareth, remove outer gate

Food

Ima

Ima: Welcoming back a beloved Jerusalem tradition

Goldy's: Great Jewish food just like Grandma used to make

Chabad restaurants around the world put greater focus on gourmet

Archaeology

A paleontologist cleaning a skeleton during an archaeology dig; illustrative.

Ancient proteins found in fossils up to 24 million years old

Oldest known 15th-Century Orit Books of Ethiopian Jewry uncovered by TAU researchers

Ancient wooden tools uncovered in China shed new light on early human diet, cognitive abilities

Science

A mechanical clock

Scientists warn that the Earth’s rotation is accelerating, making Wednesday in living memory

Ireland experts to begin identification of 800 dead children in home for unmarried mothers

A tragedy for science: Weizmann Institute mourns irreplaceable research losses from Iran attack

Culture

Chris Jones (left) and Tyler Ennis (right) are expected to be key pieces of Hapoel Tel Aviv’s Euroleague debut this season.

Hapoel Tel Aviv boosts squad with former Euroleague stars

Maccabi Tel Aviv reveals former European basketball star as new GM

ACUM awards music and literature prizes

History

The triumphant boxer celebrates as the referee calls the fight as his opponent lies on the floor.

Take it from the top: A history of phrases, idioms with the word 'take'

Staro Sajmiste: Belgrade's fairground of death for the Balkans' Jews

Discovering layers of US Jewish history at the National Library of Israel

OMG

A pet lion escaped in Lahore and attacked a woman and two children.

Authorities make arrest after unlicensed pet lion attacks woman and two children

UFC confirms plans for event at White House in 2026

Suspect arrested for stealing over 2 million NIS worth of peanuts in Beersheba

Consumerism

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I Have Tested 20 Resume Writing Services - This Is The Best One

As Antisemitism and Global Crime Rise, Israeli-Trained Dogs Become the First Line of Defense

The Rise of Humanized AI: Impact on Businesses & Writers

Astrology

Horoscope

Tuesday's horoscope: Capricorn - Ability to empower and be empowered

Is your friend an Aquarius? We have a sharp message for her!

Daily horoscope for Sunday: Virgo – Try not to make rash decisions

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