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Lebanese army members work on the day after an Israeli strike in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon September 21, 2024.

Dozen Hezbollah commanders killed, Iraqi militias reassess security

IAF jets target 20 Hezbollah Radwan commanders in Beirut parking lot • Iraqi militias reassess security protocols • Macron castigates Netanyahu's push for war

PROTESTING OUTSIDE Istanbul’s US Consulate in Jan. 2020, after IRGC Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike outside Baghdad Airport earlier that month.

Voices from the Arab press: If this isn’t a war, what exactly is it?

Civil Defense members work near the site of an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, September 20, 2024.

'The gloves are off': Beirut strike signals end of symmetry with Hezbollah, expert says

Eylon Levy, spokesman for the Israeli Government

Eylon Levy to 'Post': It was a 'mistake' not to preemptively strike Hezbollah in early days of war

Breaking News

IDF strikes terrorist infrastructure in early morning strike on Nuseirat, Gaza

Hezbollah announces death of senior Radwan comamnder Ahmad Wahabi

Japan's Icom: Highly unlikely wireless devices that exploded in Lebanon are our products

Top News

International Criminal Court, The Hague

Israel challenges ICC jurisdiction, submits objection to arrest warrants

Smoke rises from Beirut southern suburbs, Lebanon September 20, 2024.

Arab states see Hezbollah’s deterrence weaken as Israel’s returns

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Israeli security forces try to disperse Palestinian, left-wing Israeli and foreign activists, during a protest near the West Bank Israeli settlement of Mitzpe Yair in Masafer Yatta near Hebron on June 10, 2022.

Israel expels British Jewish activist who tried to immigrate under Law of Return

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA

Four fallen sons: The stories of IDF soldiers killed in action

By NATAN ROTHSTEIN

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) holds up a sign as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) holds up a sign as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress on July 24.

US lawmaker Rashida Tlaib condemns cartoon showing her with exploding pager

Israel-Hamas War

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi addresses top IDF officials after the Israeli military eliminated Hezbollah Operations Division Head and Radwan Force Commander Ibrahim Aqil. September 20, 2024.

IDF officials: Hezbollah commanders killed plotted operation similar to Oct. 7, but in the North

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Macron and Netanyahu (illustrative).

Macron to Netanyahu: You are pushing the region into war

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Rescuers gather next to a destroyed building, after an Israeli strike where a top Hezbollah military commander was targeted, Lebanese authorities said, in Beirut, Lebanon, September 20, 2024.

PM Netanyahu's advisor to Arab media: 'Previous red lines with Hezbollah no longer exist'

By MAARIV ONLINE

Smoke rises from Beirut southern suburbs, Lebanon September 20, 2024.

Strike that killed Ibrahim Aqil targeted 20 Hezbollah Radwan commanders in parking lot

By MAARIV ONLINE

Plane flies as smoke rises from Beirut southern suburbs, Lebanon, September 20, 2024 (illustration).

Hezbollah confirms Radwan Force chief Ibrahim Aqil killed by IDF strike in Beirut

By SAM HALPERN , YONAH JEREMY BOB

Hot Opinion

Foiled plots and exploding pagers aside, the threat is far from over

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Will Trump's hatred of Taylor Swift be his downfall?

By DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD

A Bnei Menashe soldier died for Israel, but the state won't let his family make aliyah

By MICHAEL FREUND

Canada’s betrayal of Israel: 'Irresponsible and shameful'

By ALAN BAKER

‘To resist the academic intifada’: Letters to my students on defending the Zionist dream

By GIL TROY

Israel News

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in front of a fire cause by Hezbollah rockets.

Netanyahu firm on new phase of Hezbollah war as UN warns of catastrophe

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Firefighters at the site of a wildfire following a missiles attack from Lebanon, in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, September 18, 2024.

Fire breaks out on playground in North as Hezbollah fires roughly 140 rockets

By KESHET NEEV , SAM HALPERN

Beepers to ballistics: Israel’s evolving strategy against multiple threats

IAF jets strike weapons depot in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, August 19, 2024.

Over 1000 ready-to-launch rockets in South Lebanon destroyed in IDF strike

By YUVAL BARNEA

THE LAST major natural disaster Israel faced was the Carmel Forest fire in 2010, which claimed 44 lives, forced the evacuation of some 17,000 people, and resulted in the burning of nearly 25 sq. km., including several million trees.

Police arrest doctor from Haifa for allegedly starting wave of forest fires in the Carmel

Analysis and Features

Trekker wheelchairs are seen being used on a hike in Jerusalem.

This is how wheelchair-bound ex-soldiers can still hike in Israel

AS OF September 2024, 42 countries have signed the Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism that Dr. Deborah Lipstadt, the US State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, was instrumental in creating.

‘We can’t afford to be silent': US antisemitism envoy tells 'Post'

By DARCIE GRUNBLATT

The ongoing Houthi threat requires immediate preparedness

By YOSSI MANSHAROFF

'Hitler's People': Pathological personalities in a morally twisted universe

By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER

An F-35 Adir from the 140th squadron takes part in an Israeli air force air show during the graduation ceremony for soldiers who have completed the IAF Flight Course, at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert, June 29, 2023.

With little fanfare, IDF pulls off 2nd largest official attack on Hezbollah of year

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Ono Conversation Corner

BANK HAPOALIM GATEWAY

Real Estate Listings

Israel, US to innovate clean energy technologies under renewed bipartisan legislation

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Mlamdovsky Somech (right) and Shmilo (left): “We’re adjusting the world for the new battlefield.”

Generative AI takes center stage in the fight against hate: Insights from the ‘Hack the Hate’

By RONNIE ROSENMAN

The Lauder Center for the Promotion of Employment in the Negev and the Galilee’s fifth annual employers’ conference.

‘Israel must wake up; development of Negev is real future of Israel’

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

SMS spam and fake text message phishing concept. System hacked warning alert, email hack, scam malware spreading virus on messages alert virtual on mobile smart phone screen in hands, dark tone. (Illustrative)

Fake emergency texts received by Israelis raise concerns of a possible Iranian cyberattack

Market Data

Middle East

Ibrahim Aqil (illustrative)

Who is Ibrahim Aqil, target of Israel's Beirut strike?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A member of Hashd al-Shaabi (paramilitary forces) holds a flag of Kataib Hezbollah militia group during a protest to condemn air strikes on their bases, outside the main gate of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq December 31, 2019.

Iraqi militias reassess security protocols in wake of Hezbollah pager explosions

Inside Hezbollah's elite Radwan Force: Structure, strategy, and operations

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi addresses top IDF officials after the Israeli military eliminated Hezbollah Operations Division Head and Radwan Force Commander Ibrahim Aqil. September 20, 2024.

Israel-Hamas War day 350: What's happening in Gaza, Lebanon border?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Los Angeles, United States. Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi, activist, advocate, and oldest son of the last Shah of Iran, gives a speech at "Live For Liberty", a benefit concert in support of the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement in Iran.

Pahlavi: Israel can't just react, it's time to act against Iran’s proxies

By HANNAH SARISOHN

World News

US President Joe Biden looks on during his visit at the Chavis Community Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, US, March 26, 2024. 'There is one ‘righteous man in his generation’ – Biden is the Noah of our story, contributing from his experience to our doctrine of poverty, fundamentalism, and terror,”

Biden: Northern Israelis, southern Lebanese must be able to return home safely

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Elliot Resnick, then editor-in-chief of The Jewish Press, was among the group that breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Judge sentences former Jewish Press editor to 4 months for his role Jan. 6 Capitol breach

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

Josh Stein, then a candidate for North Carolina attorney general, speaks during Get Out the Vote at The Fillmore Charlotte on Nov. 6, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

What to know about Josh Stein, the Jewish attorney outpolling Mark Robinson in NC governor’s race

By ANDREA COOPER/JTA

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana meets with Argentinian President Javier Milei. September 20, 2024.

Ohana and Milei discuss Hezbollah, hostages in Buenos Aires meeting

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

FILE PHOTO: A man walks while smoke rises above buildings after aerial bombardment, during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum North, Sudan, May 1, 2023.

Tehran’s African pivot: A game-changer in the covert war with Israel

Antisemitism / BDS

THE WRITER presides in the Knesset plenum, in July. ‘Since becoming speaker of the Knesset, I have sought to open a new front in the war for Israel’s global name and reputation – parliamentary diplomacy,’ he says.

A proactive approach to Latin America antisemitism after October 7

An authors’ panel at an Albany book festival Saturday has been canceled after organizers said two panelists refused to share a stage with the “Zionist” moderator, author Elisa Albert, who is Jewish.

Albany Book Festival cancels panel with Jewish moderator, citing ‘impasse’ over her Zionism

By JACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA

PROTESTERS GATHER behind barricades to protect an encampment in support of Palestinians in Gaza, at the University of Washington in Seattle, this week, as a pro-Israel rally march took place nearby.

Massive increase in anti-Israel activity on campuses, ADL report highlights

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a presidential debate with Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris hosted by ABC in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 10, 2024

Donald Trump targets Kamala Harris again in latest initiative against antisemitism

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Trump participates in a "Fighting Anti-Semitism in America Event" in Washington

'Here we go again': AJC, ADL implore Trump not to make outcome of election about the Jews

By HANNAH SARISOHN , JTA

Environment & Climate Change

A man stands next to submerged vehicles during flooding yesterday in Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland/

Central Europe braces for further flooding 'apocalypse' as death toll rises

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Aerial panoramic landscape view of a beautiful rocky shore on Pacific Coast. Taken in Saxe Point Park, Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. (illustrative)

Magnitude 6.5 quake strikes off British Columbia, Canada, USGS says

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , REUTERS

Haiti Prime Minister Garry Conille looks on, as an injured victim who was evacuated to receive medical care following a fuel truck explosion exits a helicopter, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, September 14, 2024.

Haiti fuel truck blast kills 24, survivors suffer severe burns

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israel's Iron Dome intercepts Hezbollah rockets fired over northern Israel. August 25, 2024.

Fire erupts in Biriya forest after rocket barrage to Israel's North

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

An Israeli self-propelled Howitzer artillery gun fires towards the Gaza Strip from a position close to the border on November 23, 2023 in southern Israel.

Israel's scorched earth tactics aim to paralyze Hezbollah in Lebanon

By MAARIV ONLINE

JPost Spotlight

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL nominee and former US president Donald Trump attends a rally last week. Earlier this month, he told the Republican Jewish Coalition that if Kamala Harris were to win the election, Israel would cease to exist.

Rhetoric with substance: What Trump, Netanyahu deliver that Harris does not

As we live through the current world crisis and looming threats of a major global conflagration, the free world looks to its leaders to focus less on style and more on substance.

Illustrative image of a woman wearing a face mask.

Israel's top five face masks of 2024

I present to you the top five, ranked according to application and the feel of the skin after removal – both immediately and the following morning.

Kinori Rosnow has played for Japan's national team in multiple international lacrosse competitions.

Meet the Jewish player on Japan’s national lacrosse team

Rosnow said he has felt the ripple effects of the Israel-Hamas war, and the corresponding spike in antisemitism, off the lacrosse field.

David Brinn.

David Brinn: A 'Jerusalem Post' journalist for the ages

Behind the Bylines: David Brinn has been working at the Post for decades, and his career has seen him interview big names in music and help push Israel's "beyond the conflict" message off the ground.

Israel Real Estate

MOMA TEL AVIV project by Hagag Group

The new opportunity: Tel Aviv's prestigious heart expands towards Florentin

By OFER PETERSBURG

Rising demand: Approximately 70,000 unsold apartments remain on the supply shelf

By OFER PETERSBURG

Towers and buildings in downtown Tel Aviv

A year later: Sharp increase in apartment sales last July

By OFER PETERSBURG

Construction Site.

A major step towards shortening Israel's housing construction process

By OFER PETERSBURG

Ramat Gan and Givatayim, an Aerial View

Maybe also in your city: 4,000 new apartments approved in Gush Dan

By OFER PETERSBURG

Christian World

President of Samaritan’s Purse, Reverend Franklin Graham, donates ambulances to Magen David Adom

Evangelical leader donates 28 armored ambulances, including in memory of Hersh Goldberg-Polin

"The people of Israel are indebted to this great man and organization.”

Pope Francis looks on from a balcony, on the day he delivers his "Urbi et Orbi" (To the city and the world) message at St. Peter's Square, on Easter Sunday, at the Vatican March 31, 2024.

Pope Francis: 'I stand with Rachel Goldberg-Polin during this time'

He called for the end of the conflict in Palestine and Israel to cease, the end of violence, and the end of hatred.

Pope Francis reacts during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 20, 2024.

Pope decries Gazan deaths, criticizes both US candidates aboard flight

The pontiff also expressed doubt that either Israel or Hamas, now at war for eleven months, were seeking to end the conflict.

(L-R): Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are seen ahead of the presidential debate (illustrative)

Trump dominates white Christian vote, while Harris ahead with other religious groups - poll

A new survey reveals a stark religious divide in the 2024 presidential race, with white Christians favoring Trump and other groups backing Harris, as economy and immigration emerge as critical issues.

Health & Wellness

Corona outbreak in China

Q&A: New XEC coronavirus variant spreads worldwide

By DR. ITAY GAL

Caption correction (Left to right): Doctoral student Johanna Zerbib & Prof. Uri Ben-David

Israeli study uncovers cancer cell findings that may advance treatment for the disease

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A program for youth at risk supported by KKL-JNF.

October 7 and the war in Gaza severely impact Israel’s youth at risk. KKL-JNF is helping

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Wolt drivers learn first aid from MDA

Meals and CPR on wheels: MDA trains Wolt drivers in life-saving first aid

SOMITE AI FOUNDERS

FDA backs Somite.ai's new drug for rare children's muscle disease

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

JPost Store

Ivrit magazine

Read Israel news in easy Hebrew with Ivrit

The Ivrit magazine is for people with basic reading abilities in Hebrew who want to improve their knowledge of the language.

Jerusalem Post Store - International Edition

Feel close to Israel with The Jerusalem Post International Edition

The International Jerusalem Post, a weekly digest, publishes the best of the Jerusalem Post's news for the readers abroad.

MDA Heroes

Magen David Adom Ambulance

'A severely wounded soldier asked me to say the Shema with him'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Noam and Noa treat Naama after she was wounded at the Nova festival

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Conferences

Top 50 gala

50 Most Influential Jews

The Jerusalem Post Toronto Summit 2024

The Jerusalem Post Takes on Toronto, Canada

Archaeology

An exhibit shows the life of a neanderthal family in a cave in the new Neanderthal Museum in the northern town of Krapina February 25, 2010.

New Neanderthal lineage discovered in France

The stone seal found in Jerusalem.

Rare archaeological stone seal uncovered in Jerusalem

US Politics

JOHN F. KENNEDY Memorial Library and Museum

US elections 2024: Does any political party 'own' the Jews?

By STEWART WEISS

US envoy Brett McGurk in Bayan, Kuwait February 13, 2018

Brett McGurk at IAC: White House disagrees war with Lebanon is best way to return Israelis home

By HANNAH SARISOHN

Diaspora

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers remarks at the Holocaust Educational Trust's annual appeal dinner, Sep. 16, 2024.

Keir Starmer pledges to build Holocaust memorial and expand Holocaust education across UK schools

By JACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff claps as Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Phoenix Awards dinner at Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, US, September 14, 2024.

Doug Emhoff: Donald Trump has record of saying 'vile, antisemitic things'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Judaism

FRANCE’S PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron speaks during a music festival in the courtyard of the Élysée presidential palace in Paris, on Friday. Macron has opened a Pandora’s box that leaves French citizens disoriented, worried, and angry, says the writer.

WJC's Lauder, France's Macron discuss Jewish community in Paris meeting

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Shabbat candles

Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel and the US

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Food

THE ASO SALON in Jerusalem

Aso Salon: Elegance, creativity, feel at home

By YONATAN VERSTANDIG

300 GRAM – worth the trip.

300 Gram: A meaty haven relocated near Acre

By GLORIA DEUTSCH

Culture

'Truck in the Gaza border area'

Jerusalem Highlights: September 20-27

By HAGAY HACOHEN

Mosaic depicting the seven species of wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates.

Parshat Ki Tavo: Only unity will bring us bounty and Blessings in the promised land

By RABBI KENNETH BRANDER

Travel

Jewish men in the street during Tikkun HaKlali near the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, on eve of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, September 15, 2023.

'He who travels puts himself at risk': Rabbi, Ukrainian officials warn of annual Uman pilgrimage

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

ISRAEL RAILWAYS engineer Ariella Wolfson: ‘Everything needs to be inspected and checked.

Keeping eyes on the track: Israel Railways engineer Ariella Wolfson is dedicated to ensuring safety

By ALAN ROSENBAUM

Podcasts

Just one of several images depicting a bygone age in 2 Okna Cafe

Krakow's Jewish Culture Festival is so much more than a Yiddle with a fiddle

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

South Africa's Chief Rabbi, Warren Goldstein

SA Chief Rabbi: Ceasefire with Hamas dangerous, urges unconditional surrender and hostage release

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Aliyah

Alberto Shemaria presenting a project.

Aliyah made easy: Meet the company making Israeli real estate easy for Diaspora Jews

By MICHAEL STARR , EVE YOUNG

MOURNING SGT. GIDEON HANGHAL at his funeral on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl, Sept. 12.

A Bnei Menashe soldier died for Israel, but the state won't let his family make aliyah

By MICHAEL FREUND

JPost Shopping

The Best Draining Soap Dishes on Amazon

By JESSICA SCHOEMAN

Best King Size Bed Frames Review

By JESSICA SCHOEMAN

Science

Mideast: NASA satellite imagery shows how the Middle East has become a major hotspot for loss of groundwater in recent years.

Israel Meteorological Service to name upcoming storms after hostages

The winners of the third annual hackathon at The Afeka Academic College of Engineering in Tel Aviv held in conjunction with Magen David Adom. September 17, 2024.

Amid war: Afeka college holds third hackathon on emergency medical care

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

(Illustrative) A pager device and a crowd in Lebanon near a site where Hezbollah members' pager devices were attacked.

Israeli shell company behind explosive pagers used by Hezbollah

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A banner with a picture of assassinated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is displayed next to the Iran and Palestinian flags in a street in Tehran, Iran, August 12, 2024.

Haniyeh's son: Hamas rejected 'deal of a century' for statehood, billions invested into Gaza

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Sponsored Content

Amuta 'Habayta': Providing mutual aid and support to strengthen communities

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Thousands of Israeli schoolchildren are coming to school hungry

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