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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'

The head of Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei's office was reported to have also declared that the response to the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh "is coming soon."

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

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

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

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

Breaking News

US soldier who fled to North Korea is free after sentencing

Ukraine bans official use of Telegram app over fears of Russian spying

Neuberger Berman executive on leave of absence for post celebrating Gaza crisis

Top News

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

Meet the Jewish player on Japan’s national lacrosse team

By JACOB GURVIS/JTA

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

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

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

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Macron and Netanyahu (illustrative).

Macron to Netanyahu: You are pushing the region into war

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israel-Hamas War

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

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.

Bibi vows to defend North, IDF official: We're in new phase of Hezbollah war

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

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

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

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

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

ACCORDING TO foreign reports, the booby-trapped beepers were built by a fake company set up by Israel precisely for this purpose: to sell rigged communications devices to Hezbollah. More than 1,000 terrorists were wounded when the pagers they used to communicate exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday.

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

Ohana and Milei discuss Hezbollah, hostages in Buenos Aires meeting

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A view during United Nations Security Council meeting about the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza, at the U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 4, 2024.

Israel needs to get it together before the UN resolution has consequences

By TAMAR URIEL-BEERI

THEN-ISRAELI AMBASSADOR to the UN Gilad Erdan uses a paper shredder to tear apart a copy of the UN Charter, as a protest against a General Assembly vote on recognizing the Palestinians as qualified to becoming full UN members, in May.

The truth doesn’t interest the UN, ICC, and ICJ when it comes to Israel

By DAVID BEN-BASAT

Analysis and Features

Ibrahim Aqil (illustrative)

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

A proactive approach to Latin America antisemitism after October 7

By AMIR OHANA

'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

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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

(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

Market Data

Middle East

Members of Hezbollah attend the funeral of Wissam Tawil, a commander of Hezbollah's elite Radwan forces who according to Lebanese security sources was killed during an Israeli strike on south Lebanon, in Khirbet Silem, Lebanon, January 9, 2024.

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Ibrahim Aqil (illustrative)

Israel has turned the tables on Hezbollah, now what comes next?

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

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

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

An Israeli military machinery operates during a military operation, in Qabatiya, near Jenin, in the West Bank, June 13, 2024.

Israel investigates after videos show soldiers pushing bodies off West Bank roof

World News

PEOPLE ATTENDING a FIFA World Cup soccer match between Iran and England protest against the Iranian regime in Doha, in November 2022.

It's time for the US to fight against Iranian propaganda

By NAZEE MOINIAN

A man waits for the arrival of an ambulance at a hospital, after an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon

'New phase of the war': Gallant promises to pursue Hezbollah until evacuated residents return North

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD , REUTERS

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

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and his defense team, including Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, meet US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and his team on May 20 in Tel Aviv.

'No deal is imminent': US officials cast doubt on possibility of negotiation success

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Police officers operating in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, January 26, 2021. (credit: STRINGER/ REUTERS)

One dead in Rotterdam stabbing, bystanders overpower suspect

Antisemitism / BDS

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

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

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

The BBC offices (Illustrative).

BBC is still actively employing Hamas members, Trevor Asserson says

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Doha, Qatar - October 6, 2022: Georgetown University in Qatar is a campus of Georgetown University in Education City

Qatar campus of Georgetown University hosts Hamas-affiliated media personality

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

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.

An IDF soldier secures a tunnel underneath Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. This photograph, taken on November 22, 2023, was the Pulitzer Prize Winner for Breaking News Photography.

Moroccan Court to review complaint against 'mercenary' Israeli soldier for war crimes

The lawyers claimed that during his service in Gaza, the soldier "committed numerous massacres and crimes against humanity."

Ambulances arrive to American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) as more than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, according to a security source, in Beirut, Lebanon September 17, 2024.

'Iranian proxies and drug lords': Lebanese react to Hezbollah's ‘pager intifada’

The Jerusalem Post reached out to four Lebanese citizens in the homeland and diaspora to hear their perspectives on the pager explosions.

A mysterious man in a black suit standing in the shadows underneath an umbrella, looking like a spy or a secret agent [Illustrative]

Neighbor of man accused of spying for Iran reveals dramatic details

After he was indicted for suspected security offenses involving contact with Iranian regime intelligence agents, Maman's neighbor said he knew immediately the man was a spy.

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

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Read Israel news in easy Hebrew with Ivrit

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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

A damaged sign is pictured at the headquarters of UNRWA, following an Israeli raid, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City, July 12, 2024.

White House stresses need for UNRWA safeguards as progressive lawmakers call to restore funding

By HANNAH SARISOHN

Passersby read notices for the funeral of the owner of Gottlieb's Restaurant in Williamsburg, Sept. 19, 2024.

Donald Trump’s Hasidic fans lament canceled Williamsburg campaign stop

By LUKE TRESS/JTA

Diaspora

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a "Fighting Anti-Semitism in America Event" with Dr. Miriam Adelson and Jewish leaders in Washington, US, September 19, 2024.

WATCH: Key moments and highlights from the Israeli-American Council Summit 2024

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Washington DC, USA - July 1, 2015: The Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery are both housed in the historic Old Patent Office Building.

Jewish federations push US leaders to transfer National Museum of American Jews

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

Aftermath of ICOM walkie-talkie explosion, Lebanon, September 2024

Batteries of walkie-talkies that exploded in Lebanon were laced with PETN - Lebanese source

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar.

Israel thwarts Iranian plot to assassinate Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, Ronen Bar

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

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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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