Reform

Israel unveils High-Tech tax reform to bring talent home

8,300 Israelis working in the high-tech sector had left the country between October 2023 and July 2024,

|ByANNA AHRONHEIM
People walk near office towers at a business park also housing high tech companies, at Ofer Park in Petah Tikva, Israel August 27, 2020
US President Donald Trump listens to Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev as he speaks during a trilateral signing event with Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (not pictured), at the White House, in Washington, DC, August 8, 2025.

Time for a reset: Amid institutional paralysis, Trump and Aliyev call for a UN overhaul - opinion

The joint message is clear: the UN must adapt to the realities of the 21st century or risk irrelevance.

|ByRACHEL AVRAHAM
ANGELA BUCHDAHL in 2013. She was ordained as a cantor in 1999 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion before going on to become a rabbi.

'Yes! I am Jewish’: How a Jewish Korean princess was ordained as a rabbi - review

In her book Heart of a Stranger, Buchdahl tells the story of her life. She ends each chapter with a homily applying a sacred text to contemporary faith, values, and behavior.

|ByGLENN C. ALTSCHULER
Britain's Reform UK Party leader Nigel Farage speaks at a news conference in London, Britain, August 4, 2025.

UK's Farage unveils plan to deport asylum seekers, warns of 'civil disorder’

The announcement comes against the backdrop of sustained, small-scale protests in recent weeks outside hotels housing asylum seekers.

|ByREUTERS

Ex-deputy IDF chief calls for civil disobedience to protest Netanyahu

Netanyahu's government announced a set of judiciary reforms that have been received negatively across many sectors.

JANUARY 10, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Deputy Economy Minister Yair Golan at the Knesset plenum

Israel's new gov't must be careful with judicial reform - editorial

Let’s learn from these lessons, hold a sincere dialogue and be open to learning from the other side. This is what being a democracy is really about.

JANUARY 9, 2023ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Thousands of protestors gather in Tel Aviv to protest the new government and the proposed judicial reforms of Justice Minister Yariv Levin, January 7, 2023.

Israel's judicial reform needs legitimacy to be effective - analysis

For these reforms to work, they will need public legitimacy, and for that legitimacy to be granted, all sides of the political spectrum need to have a say.

JANUARY 8, 2023ByHERB KEINON
Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu gestures at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 30, 2022.

Rothman to 'Post': Judicial reforms to strengthen Israeli democracy

MK Simcha Rothman explained to The Jerusalem Post the next steps for the proposed judicial reforms.

JANUARY 8, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
MK Simcha Rothman at a special committee meeting on the "Deri Law", at the Knesset, the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 15, 2022.

An Egalitarian Hanukkah: Israeli politics have room to improve - editorial

US Ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, attended an egalitarian service at the Western Wall. What does that teach us?

DECEMBER 22, 2022ByJPOST EDITORIAL
US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York, September 12, 2022

Why your synagogue, and mine, needs a pickleball court - opinion

Pickleball, the subject of countless breathless articles calling it the fastest growing sport in America, is essentially tennis for people with terrible knees.

DECEMBER 18, 2022ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
Boaz Lazarus-Klein, 12, awaits a return during a pickleball match at Congregation Shir Shalom near Buffalo, New York, where his father Alexander is the rabbi.

Letters to the Editor December 14, 2022: Lack of responsibility

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

DECEMBER 14, 2022ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

Grapevine November 16, 2022: A government of alienation?

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

NOVEMBER 16, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Former Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai.

Are the Reform and Orthodox movements missing the point about Judaism? - opinion

Once a Jew, always a Jew, no matter the path you took to get there

NOVEMBER 16, 2022ByTROY O. FRITZHAND
MIKVEH in Efrat: The convert changes completely, declaring to be a new person altogether, keeping all the mitzvot. Just saying a bracha and jumping in the mikveh does not accomplish this sacred task, says the writer

3 things Ben-Gvir will attempt to promote as Israeli minister

So what does Itamar Ben-Gvir, the most colorful and controversial senior Israeli politician, plan to do if he actually joins a Benjamin Netanyahu-led coalition?

NOVEMBER 2, 2022ByZVIKA KLEIN
Head of the Otzma Yehudit Party MK Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks to supporters as the results of the Israeli elections are announced, at the party's campaign headquarters in Jerusalem, November 1, 2022.