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Turkey’s neo-Ottoman ambitions: Erdogan, Hamas, and threats to Israel - opinion

Last week, we learned from US Vice President JD Vance that the Trump Administration considers Turkey eligible to receive F-35 fighter jets. It is reviewing how Turkey can legally get the fighter jets

JULY 6, 2026|ByYISRAEL MEDAD

Syria's newly appointed president for a transitional phase Ahmed al-Shaara meets with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, February 4, 2025.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan gesture as they pose for a photo, at a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza war, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025.

Turkey's Erdogan is waging war on the West and Israel - NATO must not ignore it - opinion

It is time to confront Erdogan about his much-too-close alignment with Russia, China, and Iran; his military occupation of northern Cyprus and northern Syria; and the war he wages against Israel.

JULY 4, 2026|ByDAVID M. WEINBERG

The restored western face of the Parthenon, Greece, July 2, 2026.

After 200 years in ruin: Greece unveils complete restoration of Parthenon's western pediment

The external scaffolding hiding the Parthenon’s western face was removed in early June following the completion of the monument’s back wall.

JULY 2, 2026|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM

Members of the Armenian community in Jaffa perform a pray during a memorial service held to mark the 106th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, at the Armenian Church of Saint Nicholas, in Jaffa, April 24, 2021.

Israel officially recognizes Armenian Genocide after decades of diplomatic friction - analysis

Israel’s recognition of the genocide has been decades in the making. It's been a strange aspect of Israel’s history that, for many years, the Armenian genocide was downplayed in official circles.

JUNE 29, 2026|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

Israeli history photo of the week: The Mount of Olives

JPost special feature: A Library of Congress collection of photographs that document Israel prior to 1948.

FEBRUARY 23, 2012ByLENNY BEN-DAVID

Israeli history photo of the week: The Battle of Beersheba

JPost special feature: A Library of Congress collection of photographs that document Israel before the creation of the state.

OCTOBER 27, 2011ByLENNY BEN-DAVID

Colorful Ladino and Turkish sounds

The Piyyut Festival in Jerusalem gains momentum with piyyutim in Ladino and Turkish as well as a tribute to Rabbi Itzhak Algazi.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011ByLOREN MINSKY/ITRAVELJERUSALEM.COM TEAM

The new superpowers

Is Israel prepared to face the geo-political changes taking place in the world?

JULY 12, 2011ByYORAM BECK

European Union ministers in Luxembourg 311 (R)

The emergence of Turkey’s hidden Jews

Fundamentally Freund: the Donmeh community, numbering several thousand people, descends from followers of the false messiah Shabtai Zvi.

MARCH 23, 2011ByMICHAEL FREUND

The Ottoman train challenge

The new fast lane underlines the need for a more straightforward solution to chronic traffic jams: a decent railway between J'lem and TA.

JANUARY 9, 2011ByJPOST EDITORIAL

Lion's Den: Islamist Turkey vs. secular Iran?

As the secular Turkey founded by Atatürk threatens to sink under a wave of Islamism, the Islamist Iranian state founded by Khomeini is apparently teetering on brink of secularism.

DECEMBER 1, 2010ByDANIEL PIPES