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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

Anti-Semitism in Europe

“We are so used to Jews being killed because they are Jewish,” wrote Charlie Hebdo editor-in-chief Gerard Biard.

JANUARY 5, 2016ByJPOST EDITORIAL

A French soldier secures the entrance to a Jewish school in Paris after the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher terrorist attacks last January

Deepening the divide

No conditions should be set for receiving basic rights such as equal funding for health, housing and education, or adequate law enforcement.

JANUARY 3, 2016ByJPOST EDITORIAL

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the scene of the shooting attack in Tel Aviv

No kindness

By deciding to limit morality, ZAKA is already losing direction.

DECEMBER 26, 2015ByJPOST EDITORIAL

Zaka first responders Yossi Frankel (right) and Benzi Oring pose in front of one of the organization’s emergency vehicles

Remembering the UN’s hypocrisy, 40 years on

A roundup of news from across the country.

NOVEMBER 24, 2015ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

BGU HONOREES (back row, from left) Nobel Prize laureate Prof. Yisrael Aumann, BGU rector Prof. Zvi Hacohen, journalist Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, media personality Yitzhak Livni, (front row, from left) entrepreneur and philanthropist Judith Yovel Recanati, Negev activist Dodik Shoshani, BGU president Ri

Collateral damage

Haftom Zarhum, an Eritrean migrant, was shot by a guard and beaten by a mob during a terrorist attack at the Beersheba Central Bus Station last month.

NOVEMBER 24, 2015ByJPOST EDITORIAL

Blood at the scene where terrorist was shot at the Beersheba central bus station on October 18, 2015

Compromised Judaism

The lack of judges has generated a tremendous backlog of cases waiting to be tried, particularly on the High Rabbinical Court where hardly any judges are functioning.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015ByJPOST EDITORIAL

The rabbis of the Council of the Chief Rabbinate

The Jenin model

Increased cooperation, particularly when it is supported by Turkey, a country with immense importance to Israel both economically and militarily, should be encouraged.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015ByJPOST EDITORIAL

PALESTINIAN WOMEN visit Jerusalem on the eve of Ramadan

Music censor

Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev demanded on Wednesday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel cancel talks for a planned performance in Tehran by Daniel Barenboim.

AUGUST 29, 2015ByJPOST EDITORIAL