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The sad truth is that Cassif’s objections have very little to do with ecology and environmental protection, and everything to do with a scorched-earth policy of anti-normalization in the West Bank.

Thousands of olim children are about to take their first steps in learning the Hebrew language, and in getting to know the new Israeli environment and culture.

Those who are currently at the bottom of the employment ladder are the young graduates who have difficulty finding work and are always among the first to be let go.

His insight, wit and passionate Zionism was inspiration for many of my columns

The challenges that the reborn State of Israel has faced since its inception in 1948 are enormous.

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

In any case, talk of a joint mission between Israel and the UAE puts me in an optimistic mood.

Since taking up the role of IDF chief of staff in January 2019 – almost two years ago – Kochavi has yet to give a single serious sit-down media interview. This is a problem

Shame on Israelis for elevating American hysteria to a higher plane than Jewish wisdom and, more importantly, common sense.

With all due respect, Kanievsky may be a great Torah sage, but he is not a medical man.

If Jews do not support our own community, our communal institutions will not have the support they need to continue.

“We are the advance guard of a massive moral revolution for jobs and freedom.”

Speakers brought up Israel on all four nights of the Republican convention.

All the polls clearly show that the right-wing bloc, without Yisrael Beytenu, safely passes the minimum threshold for forming a government of 61 seats.

The Arab states have been interested in the F-35 jets for a very long time.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is up to his old tricks.

A mutual declaration on the issue of the Temple Mount may affect the motivation and incentives for all sides to find a solution to other core issues at the heart of the conflict.

Gaza remains a place where more than two million people have no hope, and that is why the ceasefire will remain temporary.

Wrenching complete kashrut control out of the hands of a body with a vested economic interest in retaining it is not going to be easy, but the first steps are to be welcomed.

Instead of applying a financial band-aid in the form of monetary grants, the government should invest in employment programs.

The movers and shakers of Israeli society

In freedom, serving in Israel’s cabinet and at the Jewish Agency, Sharansky remained a perpetual dissident.

The readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

The Talmud teaches us that with anger, one forgets his learning. Can one learn while stoking anger within?

The Knesset could and should play a more significant role in bolstering the foreign service.

The warmth with which Israel and the UAE appear to have embraced one another represents a possible game changer for the Middle East.

This is far from ideal. But as the recent Democratic and Republican conventions have shown, there are a number of ways we can up our game.

Liberty Bell Park will host a series of outdoor film screenings.

No matter what the situation, the answer is always the same, “but the occupation!”

We understand and know that the only way for change to happen is for both sides to extend compassion.

Nefesh B’Nefesh brings Jews back to Israel in the way God would; amid unbridled kindness, compassion, providing attention and dignity for every person in their care.

Turkey's misguided vision of Pan-Islamism brings with it a culturally dominant form of political Islam and militant Jihadism

This normalization of bigotry and hatred toward Jews will have profound implications for generations to come.

In general, Jewish law and tradition have a positive attitude toward protest.

Sophisticated weaponry in Arab hands is a bad idea. It’s too dangerous.

The normalization agreement between the UAE and Israel has effectively ended the racist BDS movement.

The Erdoğan vision is to recreate the period of Turkish and Ottoman greatness.

We all need to internalize that life cannot go back to pre-corona normal. That means that parents need to regulate what their children do and who they see outside of the classroom.

The welcome achievement of the normalization treaty between Israel and the United Arab Emirates could be stymied because of the fractured nature of the government.

While Serbia takes unrestrained pride in the history of genuine friendship between Serbs and Jews, as well as our shared and individual tragedies, it is our common future that we want to focus on.

Peace could be sustained only if it is established on the basis of the relations between the citizens of the countries.

Today the conflict between Right and Left is still ideological, though the great ideological and political leaders on both sides, all of them modest-living men, are long gone.

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

A business expert from Lahav, a branch manager from Bank Hapoalim, an interior designer and the owner of an architect firm explain how to cope with the financial crisis – and even emerge stronger.

At this time of the year, popular hassidic singer Avraham Fried is usually in Israel, singing to a full house in Jerusalem’s Sultan’s Pool.

In his own voice, Netanyahu said the agreement with the Emirates became possible only after Israel canceled its planned annexation of Palestinian territories.

In 2018, Holocaust survivors posted an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg explaining the deep hurt that Holocaust denial brings to those who suffered the worst of humanity and survived.

Netanyahu has not be truthful when he spoke of sovereignty, even according to the US President Donald Trump’s plan.

No portion of the Trump plan has been implemented. No step toward annexation has been taken. Trump and Netanyahu triumphantly announce that they have achieved peace. With Abu Dhabi.

Remarkably, Abraham’s legacy is so powerful and relevant that a peace accord is named after him almost 4,000 years since his birth.

Since Israel’s establishment in 1948, it has endured hostility and isolation from most of its neighbors and the region.

US President Donald Trump’s Middle East adviser Jared Kushner hailed the UAE-Israel pact as an “icebreaker.” He is right.

Intervention is always a tricky business, because the tangled ethnic and political details are different for each of the 15 member states.

Iraq faces multiple deep challenges right now. Even without the COVID-19 crisis, the country was on the brink of economic collapse and political turmoil.

Only 4% of Jewish voters identify Israel as their top or second-most important issue.

Mutual mudslinging started the moment after the so-called peace was declared, so why should we assume that the election threat is going away?

Flying to Uman is not a basic right in a democracy, just like holding weddings with hundreds of people is not.

No wonder her appointment caused then-Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon to cheer, and Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations Riyad Mansour to flinch.

What many people don’t realize is that you really can change your financial future.

Patients using the platform can continuously measure and record their body temperature, while medical staff can initiate video calls with patients to check on their condition and provide reassurance.

Israel is the Start-Up Nation with an innovative can-do spirit for Israeli and foreign entrepreneurs especially in the tech, bio, AI and cyber sectors.

The concept of “peace for peace” rather than “land for peace,” in effect, ends the 2002 “Arab Peace Plan” that called for significant Israeli concessions as a precondition for normalization.

In sharp contrast to past peace efforts with the Palestinians, this new plan presents a pathway to achieve parameters that will lead to something realistic and long-lasting.

Today, I have the moral right to express these difficult words: Netanyahu wants blood. The real blood of citizens and of police officers.

Rose Ritch is the latest example of Jewish students who are being bullied for expressing their Jewish identity. University leaders must do everything they can to ensure that she’s the last.

It is high time to shower the Palestinian leadership with the ‘tough love’ once reserved exclusively for Israel

Hasidim who wish to go to Uman have the right to do so, but they should do so in the name of their own new religion, and not in the name of Judaism.

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

The UN recognized Israeli independence more than 70 years ago. It obviously hasn’t forgiven itself.

As the conflict with the Palestinians has become more entrenched, so has the division grown between Israel's Jews.

Rosh Hashanah is a good time to go back to caring.

The past, present and future of the Jews and Israelis are intertwined with those of the world. We are all travelers, all globalists.

In a clear-cut sovereignty challenge with Turkey, Greece cannot find full solidarity with its fellow members.

Achieving a two-state solution is in Israel’s national interests, with or without direct flights to Dubai.

My bar mitzvah portion 69 years ago commanded we pursue ‘justice, justice.’

Leaders of all three countries got something they could feel good about.

Pompeo has proven, during his 28 months in office, to be a true, consistent, articulate and unapologetic friend of the Jewish state.

Do we go somewhere after we die? This is a question for those of us left behind.

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

I was particularly struck by Mr. Trump, who usually spends his Sunday mornings on the golf course, characterizing Mr. Biden, who carries his late son’s rosary beads with him, as being able to “hurt God.”

The readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

These books will help you appreciate “why Israel?” – what it means to Jews to be anchored in a homeland.

Events in Belarus could go quite smoothly if Lukashenko accepts that exile is his best remaining option.

Washington must send a message that hosting wanted Hamas members is not acceptable.

Rav Adin Steinsaltz, died at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem – the city of his birth – on August 7, 2020 at the age of 83.

Hezbollah is known to use the Port of Beirut to receive weapons from Iran and to ship explosives to terrorist cells throughout the world.

Real and lasting victories are the victories of peace, not the victories of war.

Given its strategic location, the Eastern Mediterranean has historically been a point of conflict since antiquity.

Especially noteworthy had been his uncanny ability to teach congregations prayerful tunes that they felt drawn to join in with at appropriate moments.

In addition to the UN’s humanitarian award, Mohammad Al-Halabi was given the “humanitarian of the year” award from the international World Vision organization.

Israelis should know that in Islamic terrorism there is only one objective: to vanquish permanent enemies through jihad.

Leaving the status quo in place is not an option.

How is this a society in which women are free and equal when our celebrities, star athletes, and pop stars are given a free pass to repeatedly violate underage girls?

Germany justified the decision to ban the terrorist movement because of its call for armed struggle and rejection of Israel’s right to exist.

The balance between the right to protest and the need for order is delicate on an easy day, and especially in a time of a pandemic, mass unemployment and political instability.