First intifada

BBC faces backlash for calling First Intifada 'largely unarmed and popular uprising'

The wording appeared in a piece about the UK Police's decision to arrest those who chant 'Globalize the Intifada' at a protest in the UK, in light of the antisemitic terror attack in Bondi Beach.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
A person walks outside BBC Broadcasting House. November 16, 2025.
Freed Palestinian prisoners released by Israel as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, gesture, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025.

Hamas terrorist freed in hostage deal hosted in Canada, US orgs' webinar

Hamas terrorist Othman (or Osman) Bilal, who was reportedly involved in the planning of bombings that killed 12 people, was featured in a webinar panel on the First Intifada.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
JACOB LICHT, 56, from Silver Spring to Jerusalem, 2024.

Biotech between worlds: Jacob Licht's aliyah story - interview

A better question might be: For a couple who fell in love with Israel as teenagers, why did it take us so long to make aliyah?

|ByLEAH HAKIMIAN
Yasser Arafat raises his hand as he declares an independent Palestinian state during the PNC meeting in Algiers. November 15, 1988.

On This Day: Yasser Arafat, PNC, announce Palestinian Declaration of Independence in Algiers

November 15 is also the birthday of Arafat's successor as PA leader, Mahmoud Abbas, who was born in Safed during the British Mandate in 1935.

|ByJAMES GENN

David Friedman: Keep the American Embassy in Tel-Aviv

DECEMBER 25, 2016ByDANIEL S. SMITH
The Jerusalem Post

My front row seat to the intifada

Memories of a visit to 1980s Israel, the year after the first intifada began.

DECEMBER 13, 2015ByURI PILICHOWSKI
A Palestinian stone-thrower looks on as he stands in front of a fire during clashes with IDF troops in the West Bank village of Duma

Israel's wars as told through the headlines

The fight for Israel's existence, as told by the pages of 'The Jerusalem Post.'

APRIL 22, 2015ByARIEL COHEN
War of Independence

This Week In History: Terror attack on Bus 405

Palestinian terrorist wrenches steering wheel from driver, runs bus down steep ravine killing 16 people and injuring 17.

JULY 1, 2012ByTAMARA ZIEVE
An Egged bus 370 (R)

This Week in History: Deadly riots on the Temple Mount

After fringe Jewish group attempts to lay cornerstone for a “third temple" in 1990, Palestinians riot and Israeli police fire live bullets into the mob.

OCTOBER 7, 2011ByMICHAEL OMER-MAN
Palestinians, Israeli police clash at Temple Mount 311 (R)