State of Israel

Hatred of Jews so often fixates on the Land of Israel - opinion

Hatred of Jews has taken many forms, but it has always returned to one target: the Jewish people’s bond to the Land of Israel.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators carry a banner during a protest against the arrival of an Israeli cruise ship in the port of Piraeus near Athens, Greece, June 12, 2025.
RABBI MARC SCHNEIER attends the 2016 Friends Of The Israel Defense Forces Gala at The Waldorf Astoria on March 15, 2016 in New York City.

‘I’d rather be envied than erased’: NY Rabbi says Israel gives Jews power - interview

HAREDIM SCUFFLE with police outside Jerusalem’s IDF Recruitment Center, Nov. 12.

A defense of Israel's ultra-Orthodox - and a plea to their leadership - opinion

CARS SHOT at and burned in the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, are later piled high at Tkuma, a moshav in the South. It was barbaric, evil, and without justification, but it was not the Holocaust, states the writer.

October 7 was atrocious, but it wasn't the Holocaust - opinion


The myth of compulsory military service in Israel

While the strategic decision to pursue a more efficient IDF is understandable, it will come at a cost.

IDF soldiers of the Golani Brigade train for scenarios involving enemies similar to Hezbollah.

A response to Asa-El

The Zionist vision, the future of the Jewish people in Israel and in the Diaspora

Amotz Asa-El

Sermon in honor of the establishment of the State of Israel

A message from the day Israel was established as a state in 1948.

The She’arith Israel synagogue in Atlanta, Georgia

President Rivlin: Israel is the 'March of the Living' for the Jewish people

"The establishment of the State of Israel is a miracle, though it is not self-evident, and it is something that must be experienced to be believed and understood."

Youth from all over the world celebrating Israeli independence at the Western Wall

Is Independence Day a ‘Jewish’ holiday?

Following the establishment of the State of Israel, the Chief Rabbinate looked to these precedents in establishing Independence Day and later Jerusalem Day as religious holidays.

PEOPLE WATCH the Israel Air Force Aerobatic team fly over the Mediterranean Sea during Independence Day celebrations in Tel Aviv, 2017

You picked it: The Jerusalem Post's most-read stories of 2017

A review of your favorite stories of this year.

US President Donald Trump leaves a note at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City May 22, 2017

The cynical manipulations of the BDS movement

This propaganda machine, much like the Nazi propaganda machine, employs whole organizations whose sole purpose is to bring a few searing messages to permeate the crowd’s perception and memory.

A BOY holds the Jordanian national flag during a protest near the US Embassy in Amman, Jordan.

KKL bill still in limbo ahead of Knesset vote

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the KKL-JNF's money must be channeled to the needs of the state.

KKL-JNF logo and Emblem of State of Israel

Top British writers condemn 'widespread' antisemitism in Corbyn's Labour Party

Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party has been repeatedly rocked by antisemitism scandals since he assumed the party's leadership in 2015.

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn acknowledges his audience prior to giving his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, Britain, September 27, 2017.

Sixty-seven words - 100 years of conflict

On the Balfour Declaration's centenary, Elliot Jager argues that while Arab opposition to a Jewish national home remains the crux of the conflict, the nature of Jewish anti-Zionism is unchanged.

Lord Balfour declares the Hebrew University of Jerusalem open in painting by Leopold Pilichowski