Editor notes

Editor's Notes: Israel just met the America that comes after Trump - comment

Here is a bet you can hold me to. The respect from the US lasts. The protection that used to come with it does not, and it gets tested before the year is out, probably in Lebanon.

US VICE President JD Vance and President Donald Trump listen to Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House, April 23, 2026, during an earlier round of talks. Trump leads now; Vance and Rubio are next. Israel was in the room as an ambassador, not a principal.
DF armored forces at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza. January 01, 2024.

Editor's Notes: High Court ruling on women in tanks deepens religious divide in IDF - comment

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu give thumbs-up at the White House in Washington, DC, US, September 29, 2025.

US Jews are realizing that Netanyahu can handle war better than Trump can - comment

US President Donald Trump and Yakir Gabay.

Editor's Notes: Who is Yakir Gabay, the billionaire on Trump's Gaza Board of Peace?


JPost Editorial: Mourning Gaza

One inevitable result of the Gaza withdrawal is that it has made a sizable portion of Israelis reluctant to consider a similar withdrawal from PA territories.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon addresses the nation on the disengagement from Gaza, August 15, 2005

JPost Editorial: Palestinian elections

It is unlikely that elections held in either Gaza or the West Bank will be particularly free or fair...

Palestinian president Abbas stands between PM Haniyeh and senior Fatah leader Dahlan in Gaza

Editorial: Stop the accidents

The high number of Arab children killed in accidents reveals a glaring inequality that must be addressed.

The scene of a traffic accident on Road 31 near Arad

Editorial: Probe thoroughly and quickly

Still, it is unclear whether this preliminary probe will lead to a full-blown police investigation.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Entebbe, Uganda

EDITOR'S NOTES: A free Kotel

This Shavuot, we should keep in mind something Rabbi Jacobs reminded me of – the place where the Torah was originally given to the Jewish people was in the desert wilderness.

members of women of the wall at the Kotel.

Jpost Editorial: Vote against terrorism

A Palestinian draft of a resolution for statehood would have the UNSC state its opposition to Israel’s settlement activity in the West Bank.

THE UN General Assembly in the 1990s, when the ‘Zionism is Racism’ resolution was repealed.

Arab sector driving

A third of young Arabs said they do not use safety belts.

The scene of a traffic accident on Road 31 near Arad

April 8: PM’s Kotel moment

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Hebron’s lesson

Strict rules of engagement also foster discipline. A trigger-happy soldier is dangerous not just to the enemy but to his comrades.

IDF soldier who killed neutralized Palestinian terrorist in Hebron on March 24, 2016

Speed factor

On Sunday it was a bus driver’s recklessness that resulted in the death of six and the injury of a dozen.

Bus accident on Highway 1 on February 14, 2016