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After two years of war, Israelis and Palestinians ask: What comes next?

After Trump’s Gaza ceasefire, a new governance plan takes shape. From Israel’s mourning to Gaza’s rebuilding and the PA leadership race, The Jerusalem Report explores what comes next.

DECEMBER 16, 2025|ByRUTH MARKS EGLASH

What comes next for Israel and Gaza in the New Year?

IDF CHIEF OF STAFF Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir prays at the Western Wall during the ceremony officially swearing him in as the military’s highest-ranking officer.

Editor's Notes: Zamir faces painful reckoning as the IDF confronts failures, fragile leadership

A rare look inside the emotional and moral struggle facing IDF leaders after October 7 and the cost of true accountability.

NOVEMBER 29, 2025|ByZVIKA KLEIN

Taking control of the narrative is, for many survivors a form of therapy and a form of revenge. Hamas tried to erase them. Standing on a stage and saying “this is what they did to me and this is why we must bring the others home” is the opposite of erasure.

The rise of the hostage influencer and the price of public trauma - comment

Editor's Notes: The story of Israel’s new celebrities is, in the end, the story of a society that refuses to look away from its trauma, yet also cannot bear to stare at it directly for too long.

NOVEMBER 21, 2025|ByZVIKA KLEIN

IF A leader who thrives on attention can be nudged to keep doing the right thing for Israel, then a powerful front page is a small price to pay. Special ‘Jerusalem Post’ front pages from the past two years of war.

Editor's Notes: Why these covers helped push a moment we needed

After two years of counting days, names, and faces, I am ready to be surprised by good news, a celebration, a new country joining the Abraham Accords, or the rebuilding of this country.

OCTOBER 17, 2025|ByZVIKA KLEIN

No Iran in Syria

Israel must demand a full accounting of the Iranian forces in Syria and that any agreements made on the south be based on verification.

JUNE 3, 2018ByJPOST EDITORIAL

Stopping the S-300

It is in Israel's interest that Syria be stabilized, but it is in the world’s interest that weapons do not proliferate to terrorist groups and terrorist regimes.

APRIL 28, 2018ByJPOST EDITORIAL

The self-launching component of the S300 surface-to-air missile

Yogev’s diatribe

As long as Israel has no constitution that clearly protects individual basic rights, it is important that Israel maintain a strong, outspoken judiciary.

MARCH 19, 2018ByJPOST EDITORIAL

MK MOTI YOGEV listens to a colonel during a tour of Judea and Samaria last month.

A day for agunot

For well over a decade now Jewish women’s rights organizations have marked the Fast of Esther, which proceeds Purim and falls this year on Wednesday, as International Agunah Day.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018ByJPOST EDITORIAL