Arab Israeli conflict

This Elul, Israel's government should ask forgiveness from the citizens it has wronged - opinion

As yet another Israeli election fast approaches, I ask our government to acknowledge the errors it has made, errors that have affected, often disastrously, every one of our citizens.

HEED THE SHOFAR: Can we harness the ‘Elul effect’?
Palestinian and Israeli flags overlook Dome of Rock and Western Wall

'It was a ticking bomb': Inside Israel's most uncomfortable dialogue

EINAT WILF, leader of the new Oz party.

'Peace, Not Now:' Inside the shaping of Israeli policy - review

Thousands attend a protest against the violence in the Arab community, in Tel Aviv. January 31, 2026.

Will Israel’s Arabs reach the political Promised Land? - opinion


Israel to compensate family of Omar As'ad, who died after IDF detention

Omar As'ad had been detained by soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion at an impromptu checkpoint, and died of heart failure.

Mourners attend the funeral of Palestinian-American Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad, 80, who was found dead after being detained and handcuffed during an Israeli raid, in Jiljilya village on January 13, 2022.

5783 had a disappointing start, but hopeful for the rest of the year - opinion

Lapid is so consumed with his own importance that he has become over-confident, without the necessary competence.

 PRIME MINISTER Yair Lapid briefs opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu on security and diplomatic matters, in the presence of the prime minister’s military secretary, Avi Gil, in August. Netanyahu called Lapid’s UN speech, ‘full of weakness, defeat and surrender.’

The trauma of Israel's Yom Kippur War was fully justified

To what extent was Israel's Yom Kippur War trauma justified? Fully. How could it have happened – the blunders, the existential fear, the casualties? Could it happen again?

 THE PHOTOS chronicle the Yom Kippur War and its aftermath.

PA envoy: Israel has committed most terrible massacres since WWII

The Palestinian Authority's ambassador to the UN, Ibrahim Khraishi, continues to argue for sanctions against Israel to be put in place.

Khraishi 298

The two-state hypocrisy in the reaction to Lapid’s speech - analysis

Political leaders are having a field day after hearing that Lapid's delegation to the UN planned to support a two-state solution.

 People take part in a protest outside the Israeli embassy

NGOs in the Palestinian Authority aren’t a threat - opinion

It’s not the IDF’s job to shut them down.

 The EU representative and representatives from EU nations met with members of the 6 Palestinian NGOs that Israel labeled terrorist organizations.

Violent ‘armed struggle’ returns to West Bank, warning of Intifada's return - analysis

These past few months show that the West Bank is headed back to the days when wanted gunmen used to roam the streets of Palestinian communities.

 A Palestinian gunman fires a weapon in the air during the funeral of Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, a senior commander of the Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades who was killed in armed clashes with Israeli forces, in Nablus in the West Bank August 9, 2022.

Letters to the Editor August 24, 2022: Keep the peace

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Israel's Jewish-Arab partnership will succeed against all odds - opinion

It isn’t too late to give a real chance to Arab-Jewish partnership, to reach out to the Arab community and bring an agenda of partnership to the forefront of Israeli politics as well. 

Mansour Abbas, head of the Ra'am party, seen at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on April 26, 2021.

‘Israel is my state and the Palestinians are my people' - interview with Esawi Frej

"Why do we serve in the Knesset? So we can deliver fiery speeches? We serve in the Knesset to change things, to serve a community," said the retiring Meretz MK.

  Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej.