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Steve Witkoff seen on a background of Hamas terrorists and a protest sign featuring US President Donald Trump (illustrative)
REPORT

Witkoff met with Hamas leaders, Qatari mediators to advance hostage deal, Egyptian sources say

Hamas said that Trump's repeated threats against Palestinians are support for Netanyahu to back out of the Gaza ceasefire and intensify the siege.
Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen in court in Tel Aviv on December 10, 2018, where he testified in a NIS 140,000 libel suit he filed last year against Abie Binyamin, a social activist.

Yair Netanyahu: Israeli media is ‘so radical, North Korea could take lessons’
A joint exercise between the IAF and US Air Force
WATCH

IAF conducts joint exercise with B52 bomber, jets from US Air Force
Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, March 5, 2025.
EXPLAINER

These are the 59 Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza

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Hamas terrorists stand guard in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025
LIVE UPDATES

Trump threatens Hamas to release hostages as deal talks advance

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Valve on an Iranian gas pipeline (illustrative)

Trump considering plan to disrupt Iranian oil supply, stop ships at sea

By REUTERS
US President Donald Trump seen over an Iranian flag (illustrative)
ANALYSIS

Iran accelerates diplomatic outreach as US-Israel pressures escalate

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

'Right man at the right time': Israeli, world leaders react to Trump's warning against Hamas
By SARAH MOSKOWITZ
Ben-Gurion University campus in Beersheba, southern Israel. May 28, 2023.

BGU suspends professor over anti-IDF remarks online

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
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IDF carried out Hannibal Directive, new 'Sword of Damocles' op. on October 7

Israeli security forces on road 232 near the southern Israeli city of Sderot, October 7, 2023
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'Bibas family not murdered, Hamas has legitimate cause,' claims Rima Hassan

Rima Hassan at the Humanity festival, whose name is la Fete de l Humanite, in Bretigny-sur-Orge, the 14 September 2024.
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Freed hostage Eli Sharabi details time in terror captivity to Channel 12's 'Uvda'

Ex-hostage Eli Sharabi reunites with family at Sheba Medical Center, January 8, 2025.
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'Hi, I’m Dr. Hamas': Emily Damari’s chilling testimony on 'treatment' received in captivity

Emily Damari pre surgery holding hand up, March 2, 2025.
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Father of woman killed at Nova festival commits suicide after devastating loss

Vladislav went to visit his daughter's grave often.

Israel at War

US President Donald Trump meets with a delegation of former hostages in the Oval Office, and shows off a plaque of gratitude from Hostage Families Forum, March 5, 2025.
WATCH

‘You were sent by God’: Freed hostages meet Donald Trump in White House

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara along with released hostage Tal Shoham and his wife, Adi. March 5, 2025.

Freed hostage Tal Shoham describes Hamas captivity to PM Netanyahu

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Hostage family members and protesters in Tel Aviv. March 6, 2025.

Why must Trump be their savior? Hostage families protest for completion of deal

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
US President Donald Trump is seen pointing against the backdrop of an explosion in this illustrative collage image.

'This is your last warning!': Trump gives ultimatum to Hamas

By JAMES GENN
IDF Chief-of-Staff Eyal Zamir visits the Western Wall, in Jerusalem, on March 5, 2025

'Victory and defeat of the enemy': New IDF chief Zamir's first official order

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
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Israel News

Justice Minister Yariv Levin seen in the Knesset plenum, in Jerusalem, December 4, 2024
ANALYSIS

Levin’s accusations against A-G are a roadmap of gov't’s own failures

By ELIAV BREUER
Israeli minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich attends a Finance committee meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 13, 2025.

Smotrich discusses economic partnership with Treasury's Bessent in US visit

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

NIS 1b. for yeshivot inserted into budget base, haredi parties say
By ELIAV BREUER
Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security services speaks at the annual Cyber Week, at the Tel Aviv University, on June 27, 2023.
REPORT

Netanyahu considering firing Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar in coming weeks

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.

Sa'ar, Smotrich praise justice minister's decision to remove A-G from position

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Analyses & Features

Oil pump on background of flag of Iran.
ANALYSIS

Iran looks to sit astride key east-west energy route

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN
German conservative candidate for chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader Friedrich Merz attends a press conference following the German general election in Berlin, Germany, February 24, 2025.
OPINION

Unpacking Germany’s election results and what they mean for Israel

By SACHA STAWSKI
ANALYSIS

Why Hamas loves the Arab world’s latest backwards Gaza plan
By HERB KEINON
OPINION

The Egyptian Gaza plan: A deadly trap for Israel and the US
By AMINE AYOUB
View of the Re'im music festival massacre, in southern Israel, January 16, 2025.
ANALYSIS

How Israeli intel. misread Hamas’s military evolution before October 7

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN
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The Iron Dome air defense missile systems is seen during operational trials conducted following the conclusion Operation Shield and Arrow on May 14, 2023
OPINION

An investment in national resilience: Strengthening Israeli engineering education

By AMI MOYAL
ISRAEL HAS the world’s third-largest Druze population, after Syria and Lebanon. Here, Druze gather to contact their relatives on the Syrian side of the border from the Israeli Golan Heights.

Netanyahu to unveil NIS 3.9 billion plan to develop Israel's Druze, Circassian sectors

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Nimrod Vax, CPO & co-Founder of BigID, with Jake Laznik, Senior Breaking News Desk Manager at the Jerusalem Post.
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WATCH: 'Tel Aviv University has a great brand, and it followed me wherever I went'

By IN COLLABORATION WITH TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY , JERUSALEM POST STAFF
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Antisemitism / BDS

Kingsley WIlson was recently appointed as deputy press secretary at the Pentagon.

Pentagon official posted neo-Nazi talking point about Jewish lynching victim Leo Frank last year

By BEN SALES/JTA
Protesters at Barnard College denouncing former Israeli prime minster Naftali Bennett's appearance, March 4, 2025.

Pro-Palestinian Barnard campus occupation ends after bomb threat

By MICHAEL STARR
A pro-Palestinian demonstration takes place at Columbia University, in New York City, last October, marking the first anniversary of the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023.
OPINION

Heideggerian philosophy, Identity Synthesis: The ideologies behind campus antisemitism

By SABRINA SOFFER
Marchers on the far-right are seen in London, Britain, on October 26, 2024

British neo-Nazis planned attack as part of 'race war', prosecutors say

By REUTERS
TENTS ARE pitched outside the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, as students occupy parts of British campuses in support of Palestinians in Gaza, this week. Supporters of genocidal jihadist groups are spreading mayhem across the Western world, says the writer.

Anti-Israel vandalism group defaces Cambridge, Oxford universities

By MICHAEL STARR , MATHILDA HELLER

Middle East

Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
EDITORIAL

A shameful display of disorganization and rage, we can do better

By JPOST EDITORIAL
IDF Chief-of-Staff Eyal Zamir visits the Western Wall, in Jerusalem, on March 5, 2025

IDF chief Zamir declares 2025 a year of war on Gaza and Iran

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Zamir reshapes IDF high command with key appointments
By YONAH JEREMY BOB
Commander-in-chief of the SDF, General Mazloum Abdi, in his military uniform.

Kurdish SDF chief open to support from Israel in Syria

By JAMES GENN
Hamas terrorists seen in Khan Yunis, February 20, 2025

US holding secret talks with Hamas on release of Gaza hostages, 'Post' confirms

By AMICHAI STEIN

World News

Police officers stand near a damaged building after Mk82 bombs fell outside the shooting range during joint live-fire exercises near the demilitarized zone separating two Koreas in Pocheon, South Korea, March 6, 2025.
BREAKING

South Korea air force jets accidentally drop bombs on homes, injuring 15

By REUTERS
US President Donald Trump greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in late February, 2025.
OPINION

The art of the raw deal: How Zelensky failed to learn how to deal with Trump's ego

By DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD
Israel's consul general to New York, Ofir Akunis, in his Manhattan office, August 14, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Ofir Akunis welcomes US talks with Hamas, urges Trump to intensify pressure

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
ISIS militants

ISIS-K member charged with 2021 bombing, US State Dept. says

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Hostage families call for deal now, January 11, 2025.

UN to recognize hostage families as victims of Hamas's psychological terror

By MATHILDA HELLER , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Environment & Climate Change

Dolphins spotted miles off from Rishon Lezion's coast.

Dolphins sighted 2.5 miles off coast of Rishon Lezion

By YUVAL LEVY
SOLAR PANELS on a rooftop in Jerusalem: A hospital with an independent solar system and storage can continue to operate during emergencies, as can entire neighborhoods, says the writer.
OPINION

Israel’s security reality necessitates rethinking our energy infrastructure

By ERAN MAIMON
The Ginosar shore.

Driest winter on record: Lake Kinneret sees rare February drop in water level

By ELI ASHKENAZI
Tel Aviv beach.

Heatwaves could be adding years to your biological age, researchers warn

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rare seabird discovered on Israel's shore following winter storm.

Rare seabird discovered on Israeli coast

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

JPost Spotlight

Trump's wheel of fate on Eretz Nehederet, March 5, 2025.

‘Eretz Nehederet’ returns with sharp satire on Trump, Netanyahu, and Zelensky

After a somber break, Eretz Nehederet returns with sharp satire on Trump, Zelensky, and Netanyahu, delivering much-needed laughs to Israeli viewers.
Sharon Halevi wears bracelets to honor fallen IDF soldiers.

Dozens of wristbands: Sharon Halevi’s tribute to fallen soldiers

The outgoing IDF chief of staff's wife explained that the bracelets were given to her by the families of fallen IDF soldiers she had visited during the Iron Swords War. 
Idit Ohel pleads for her sons release at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, filled to capacity by protestors marking Alon's 24th birthday - his second in Hamas captivity - in the shadow of the potential collapse of the hostage deal, and calling on the government to keep the deal alive.

Chained, beaten, starved: Idit Ohel appeals to UN Human Rights Council for release of her son

Earlier on Wednesday, family members of Nimrod Cohen, Omri Miran, and Elkana Bohbot met with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
British-Israeli former hostage Emily Damari poses for a photo with her mother, Mandy, after being released from Gaza where she was held since the deadly October 7 2023 attack by Hamas, at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, in this handout image obtained by Reuters on January 21, 2025.

Emily Damari’s story inspires global tribute on International Women’s Day

The World Zionist Organization launched #ZionistSheroes to honor Emily Damari’s courage.

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Damages Caused to the Homes of Metula, December 9, 2024

Roadmap for rehabilitation: From disaster to economic boost for cities

By WALLA/REALESTATE
Nof Hagalil

A major step toward advancing urban renewal in the periphery

By OFER PETERSBURG
Residential Buildings, Ashdod.

Surprising data: 70% of apartments in Israel are built by small firms

By OFER PETERSBURG
A HOUSING project of the Yafo Tel Aviv company: If decision-makers wish to translate people’s desire to immigrate into actual aliyah, a shift in approach is needed, along with significant actions, says the writer.
OPINION

Israel must change its approach to housing new immigrants

By KOBI SAAR

Christian World

An antique illustration of Esther's banquet from the Purim story from a book published in London in 1876.

Christian conservatives have appropriated Queen Esther as a symbol. Let’s take her back.

As Purim nears, conservatives are invoking Queen Esther to justify policies that critics say threaten democracy and civil rights in the US.
Balloons with an image of Pope Francis float outside Gemelli Hospital, as he is admitted for treatment, in Rome, Italy, March 2, 2025.

Pope Francis no longer needs ventilation, is stable, Vatican says

Vatican says Pope Francis's health is improving but he remains under close watching Rome's Gemelli hospital.
CAM Director of Christian Outreach and Engagment EJ Kimball addresses the "Breakfast to Honor Israel," at the annual National Religious Broadcasters Convention, in Grapevine, Texas, Feb. 26, 2025.

Evangelical support for Israel: NRB breakfast unites Christians against antisemitism

“Four years ago, I stood in this room and warned that this fight against antisemitism is your fight," said CAM Director of Christian Outreach and Engagement.
BISHOP ROBERT STEARNS (left) and the writer share a laugh during the recent Eagles’ Wings mission.
OPINION

Christian Birthright turns faith leaders into active Israel advocates

“The church can’t be silent. Today’s complacency is tomorrow’s captivity. What if today’s complacency is tomorrow’s Holocaust?”

Health & Wellness

AN EMPLOYEE CUTS cannabis buds in a laboratory in Vienna.

Bill regulating use of cannabis for medical purposes passes in Knesset preliminary reading

By TAL SHALEV , JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades hand over Israeli hostages to the Red Cross, in Khan Yunis, Gaza, February 15, 2025

Freed hostages suffered severe starvation, muscle loss in captivity, Israel confirms

By DR. ITAY GAL
Two women cry and grap the picture of their loved one at the site of the Supernova music festival.
INTERVIEW

State of mental health in Israel is 'extremely challenging,' says NATAL CEO

By EVE YOUNG
Doctor holds a stethoscope in front of a hospital background (illustrative)

Intl. Federation of Medical Students Associations revokes Israel suspension

By MATHILDA HELLER
Gym illustrative
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Ensuring a healthier society means addressing obesity bias

By ASNAT RAZIEL

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MDA Heroes

MDA paramedic officers get out of an ambulance a man to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center emergency and trauma care who was moderately injured when stabbed in a terrorist attack by the Neve Daniel junction, near Jerusalem on March 31, 2022.

MDA hero: We’re here for each and every person who is sick or injured

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MDA’s Joint National Command Center on October 7

'The country was burning, and I was watching it happen'

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The Jerusalem Post’s Women Leaders Summit 2025

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Archaeology

The first "fake news" of the modern era and its impact on the lives of Damascus Jews

Rare document sheds light on the Damascus Blood Libel, 185 years later

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Gravestones under restoration at Warsaw's largest Jewish cemetery, September 2024.

Archaeology students excavating Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world

By SHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA

Aliyah

WITH HIS wife, Peri.

Alex and Peri Sinclair: A Masorti power couple like no other

By LEAH HAKIMIAN
KEEPOLIM’S BABUSHKA & Dedushka program provides monthly food deliveries to nine Russian immigrants with mobility issues.
FEATURE

Aliyah and accessibility: The reality for disabled immigrants in Israel

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Diaspora

Gal Gadot receives the International Leadership award from ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt at ADL Never Is Now at Javits Center on March 04, 2025 in New York City.

'My name is Gal, and I'm Jewish': Gal Gadot speaks on Jewish pride, fighting antisemitism

By MATHILDA HELLER
The Rock memorial in honor of Bibas family at University of Michigan vandalized

Pro-Hamas vandals desecrate University of Michigan memorial to slain Bibas family

By MATHILDA HELLER

Judaism

Agam Berger reunited with her family
OPINION

Finding meaning in Judaism: From captivity to candle lighting

By SIVAN RAHAV MEIR
All in the Family

‘This Purim, who will you be?’

By TOBY KLEIN GREENWALD

Food

The best, and ours. Sahara Palace Restaurant

Miami Beach is buzzing about this long-awaited Israeli restaurant from a celebrated chef

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WADI REIR. Typical vegetarian dish of the Negev’s Bedouin.
REVIEW

'Savory Flavors': A culinary guidebook to mouthwatering food in Israel

By HOWARD BLAS

Culture

JOHN CLEESE

‘An Evening with John Cleese': Monty Python comic to perform in Israel

By DAVID BRINN
Israeli director Yuval Abraham (l) and Palestinian director Basel Adra speak on stage after having received the documentary award for "No Other Land" during the 74th Berlinale International Film Festival, Feb. 24, 2024 in Berlin.
OPINION

In No Other Land, the villain is always Israel

By PETER HIMMELMAN

Travel

Israelis can begin enjoying the snow in Mount Hermon.

Mount Hermon reopens for visitors for first time since Oct 7

By MOSHE COHEN
THE ELMA HOTEL in Zichron Ya’acov has retained its age-old charm.

Looking to stay in Israel's wine capital? Take a look at the Elma hotel in Zichron Ya’acov

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

Podcasts

Maya Belsitzman performing at the 2024 Krakow Jewish Culture Festival

Around the Jewish World in 45 minutes

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Ron Dermer (L) and Ari Harow.
LISTEN

Who is Ron Dermer? Ari Harow reveals insight into Netanyahu's top fixer

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

US Politics

US President Donald Trump makes an announcement about an investment from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, US, March 3, 2025.
REPORT

Trump to order abolishment of Department of Education

By REUTERS
US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists in the Oval Office on January 20, 2025.

Trump threatens to pull funding from campuses that allow ‘illegal protests,’ endorses mask ban

By BEN SALES/JTA

History

MONUMENT TO Shalom Aleichem in Bohuslav, Ukraine.

This week in Jewish history: Birthday of Frank Gehry, Yahrzeit of Avraham Ibn Ezra

By STEVEN DRUCKER
Rose Girone

World's oldest Holocaust survivor, Rose Girone, passed away at age 113

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Science

ELAD INBAR with one of his security robots. ‘Robots are not here to take away jobs. They are here to make jobs more meaningful and revolutionize the way we work, helping business owners operate more profitably.’
INTERVIEW

The Israeli who is looking to build the robots of the future

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Exhibits explain automorphia: Contemplation and focus shape a reaction to cycles of humidity variation.

Shape-shifting science: Jerusalem exhibition unveils self-morphing materials

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Finance

Illustrative photo of Israeli money

Doing business in Israel: How to make money and keep most of it
Vesey Ventures founders Lindsay Fitzgerald, Dana Eli-Lorch, Julia Huang.

Vesey Ventures launches $78m fund, highlighting power of well-connected investor team

OMG

Police officers and a Nature and Parks Authority officer pose with the rescued monkey, March 5, 2025.

Negev police locate illegally owned monkey

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Gabby Windey and Robby Hoffman seal their vows with a kiss in Las Vegas January 11, 2025.

Gabby Windey and Robby Hoffman tie the knot in surprise Vegas wedding

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