Editor notes

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.

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

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

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


Editor's Notes: A year to decide

The new year 5778 can be the year of change. It can be a year of decisions.

Man blowing the shofar at the Western Wall before Rosh Hashana

Hands off women conscripts

Just this past week activists posted a large billboard- looking ad alongside the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway, which claims that Israel is stronger without mixed units.

IDF female soldiers training

Editor's Note: Next Steps

Kushner should be applauded for his honesty.

PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas meets with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner in Ramallah in June. (

Editor's Notes: It's time people realize there are alternatives to Netanyahu

Israel existed (and even thrived) before Netanyahu, and will continue to do so after him.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Editor's Notes: Behind the lines of jihad

Europe, Souad Mekhennet explained, continues to live in a state of denial.

JOURNALIST SOUAD MEKHENNET interviews jihadists on assignment

Editor's Notes: A pre-storm bear hug

The general assessment in Jerusalem is that this is just the beginning.

US President Donald Trump, first lady Melania, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara in Jerusalem May 22, 2017

JPost Editorial: Trump’s vision of peace

Will Palestinian leaders take Trump’s advice and stop glorifying terrorists?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump at Ben Gurion International Airport

JPost Editorial: Triumph of debate

The packed day brought into focus the fact that Israel and American Jewry don’t always see eye to eye.

The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference

Editor's Notes: A war or an operation?

It will be interesting to see what the courts decide on this issue, mostly because Israel itself had trouble deciding what to call the fighting through the summer of 2014.

IDF FORCES operate inside the Gaza Strip during Operation Protective Edge

The cost of freedom on Israel's 69th birthday

There was a time not too long ago when we knew what it meant to be helpless.

Mount Herzl military cemetery