Opinion

Rosh Hashanah: How memory can be a double-edged sword - opinion

Memory is central to Rosh Hashanah but can be a double-edged sword.

A SUPERMARKET in Jerusalem does a brisk business last week as shoppers stock up for the New Year holiday. Rosh Hashanah is not just a time to look back; it’s a time to look forward, the writer notes.

Rosh Hashanah 2025: Savoring the sweetness life can offer, even in the toughest of times - opinion

How is it that progressives support Hamas’s regressive agenda? - opinion

Kenyans attend a protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Nairobi, Kenya October 22, 2023.

Rosh Hashanah: Wishing for peace, better education in the new year - opinion

A RALLY for the release of hostages held in Gaza takes place outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on Saturday night. Even the wish that all the hostages will soon be brought back home is not really an issue on which we are fully united, the writer observes.

Hibuki: The national comforter of Israel’s children, and the world - opinion

“Hibuki Intervention” has been scientifically proven as the most effective and rapid treatment for post-trauma and anxiety in children.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2025ByDR. SHAY CHEN GAL

Hibuki at the Tel Aviv light rail station.

Disarming Hezbollah: The five-phase Lebanese plan is actually happening - opinion

The Lebanese military drew up a five-phase disarmament plan that is being implemented.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2025ByNEVILLE TELLER

LEBANESE FOREIGN MINISTER Youssef Raggi heads to a cabinet meeting in Baabda, Lebanon, last month. He declared that within three months, the army will have fully disarmed Hezbollah in the area nearest the border with Israel, says the writer.

Responses to Israel's Doha strike: The condemnations mask relief - opinion

Israel’s neighbors and regional players also want to be rid of Hamas.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2025ByMICHAEL EHRENSTEIN

QATAR’S EMIR Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani: Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said the Israeli strike was a ‘blatant violation of all international laws and norms,’ but Doha ignores the norm not to provide aid and shelter to terrorists, says the writer.

A complex reality: Saudi-Pakistani alliance is not a hostile pact against Israel - opinion

Israel should avoid misinterpreting the pact as a hostile alignment aimed directly at it.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2025ByYOEL GUZANSKY

SAUDI CROWN PRINCE Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif embrace after signing a defense agreement in Riyadh last week. Israel should not misinterpret it as a hostile alignment aimed directly against it, says the writer.

Health basket cuts are crippling families - opinion

Behind every child with cancer stands an entire family fighting not only the disease but often the system itself.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2025ByEFRAT LICHTMAN

HEALTH MINISTRY Director-General Moshe Bar Siman Tov attends a meeting of the healthcare basket committee earlier this year. Israelis believe they have a national health insurance system, but the picture is often very different, states the writer.

Memory and history: Quintessential components of who we are - opinion

As steeped as we are in our traditional ways of yore, we can adapt and change and incorporate new historical events into our lives.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2025ByMICAH HALPERN

AN IDF vehicle maneuvers inside the Gaza Strip last week. As Israel continues its defensive war to defeat Hamas and return our abused hostages, its reputation throughout almost the entire world devolves, the writer laments.

The premature Palestinian statehood will explode in our faces - opinion

The first bricks are still the same. One authority. One set of laws. One chain of command. If recognition is to be more than a headline, it must become pressure and support in the same paragraph.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2025ByZVIKA KLEIN

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer meet at 10 Downing Street, in London, Britain, September 8, 2025.

Curses and blessings from 5785, and why it is important to recognize them - comment

Jewish tradition is keenly aware of suffering, exile, persecution, and uncertainty, while it also reflects Jewish resilience and hope. It carries both the sober memory of hardship and hope.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2025ByHERB KEINON

A MAN blows a shofar outside the Jerusalem Central Bus Station. One of the areas of life on which we concentrate in the Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur period is health, says the writer.

A Palestinian state needs Israel's agreement to exist. It's not a matter of recognition - editorial

Pushing for a two-state solution now is unmoored from reality, as Palestinians have shown no ability or willingness to run a peaceful entity alongside Israel.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2025ByJPOST EDITORIAL

Danny Danon to 'Post': The UN is entertaining dangerous Palestinian adventurism - opinion

If the UN wants to remain relevant and credible, it must stop being a platform for political games and start standing up for the values it was created to uphold 80 years ago.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2025ByDANNY DANON

THE WRITER addresses the UN Security Council last week. If unilateral steps are taken at the General Assembly regarding the recognition of a Palestinian state, one can expect that Israel will also take unilateral steps, he writes.