Trump: More talks with Iran expected, military force unpreferred

US President Donald Trump expressed his discontent with Iran, adding that "sometimes you have to" use military force.

Huckabee tells US Embassy staff in Israel to leave today amid Iran strike fears

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media, as he departs from the White House ahead of his trip to Corpus Christi, Texas, in Washington, DC, US, February 27, 2026.

As Modi backs Israel in Knesset, 'Post' gets an inside look at India's military surge

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INDIA AFFAIRS: While Indian Prime Minister Modi visited Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Post embedded with the Indian Armed Forces across the subcontinent.

A MIG-29K fighter jet sits on the flight deck of India’s aircraft carrier ‘INS Vikrant’ during the International Fleet Review 2026 off the coast of Visakhapatnam, India.
A Palestinian woman helps a burn victim, Maria Abu Aawad, at a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital, amid severe shortages of medical equipment, medicines and essential materials needed for burn treatment, in Zawaida, in the central Gaza Strip, January 26, 2026.

Supreme Court allows NGOs facing Gaza ban to keep operating, for now

Some 17 NGOs and the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) sought an urgent suspension of the ban in a petition to the High Court of Justice.

Israeli soldiers disperse Palestinian farmers and left-wing activists preventing them from picking olives during the annual harvest season, in the village of Qusra, in the West Bank, October 29, 2024.

Left-wing activists hospitalized following settler attack in West Bank village

Iran stored highly enriched uranium at underground site, IAEA report says

Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female prime minister, led through a small circle of senior advisers known as ‘Golda’s Kitchen’ from 1969 until 1974 – an exception in a political system where women’s authority has remained limited and largely isolated.

Visible everywhere, powerful nowhere: The paradox facing Israeli women in 2026

ANALYSIS
The outlook for increasing women’s participation in political life is bleak, with no women in the ultra-Orthodox parties, not a single party led by a woman, and none even committed to equal representation on their candidate lists.

Israel hits all-time low in women's political representation. Can it be reversed?

OPINION
Head of the Arabic media desk at the IDF Spokesperson Unit Major "Captain" Ella Waweya; highest ranked Arab Muslim IDF soldier. 20.7.2024.

Captain Ella trades desk for the field as IDF's new Arab spokesperson

JERUSALEM REPORT
Former US President Bill Clinton speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in Manhattan, New York City, US, September 19, 2022.

Bill Clinton to lawmakers investigating Epstein: 'I saw nothing'

US CENTCOM chief Adm. Brad Cooper makes an announcement aboard aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea February 7, 2026; illustrative.

CENTCOM chief briefs Trump on military options against Iran, source tells 'Post'

DELEGATES, OBSERVERS, staff, and others associated with Kol Israel gather at the World Zionist Congress last week. The Zionist institutions should be forums for visionary debate, says the writer.

Has Zionism grown too bureaucratic for its moment of crisis?

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From positive content to real action: Inside the United for Good Movement

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An illustrative image of a man holding an Israeli flag.

Baha’i World Center celebrates the festival of Ayyam-i-Ha

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Mothers of former hostages with Momentum founding director Lori Palatnik (C); Miriam Gritzewsky (in all white); Tzahit Levi (far R).

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Taliban soldiers carry a rocket launcher in a vehicle, following exchanges of fire between Pakistan and Afghanistan forces, near Torkham border in Afghanistan, February 27, 2026.

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'Israel is evil, genocidal': Ana Kasparian doubles down in anti-Zionist X thread

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‘Tax the Jews’ chants break out at event held by Jewish mayor of San Francisco

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Tucker Carlson pushes DNA tests for Jews: the ‘Khazar’ theory that antisemites can’t shake

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Iran triples oil loading rate as tensions rise with US, oil accumulating offshore

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US-Iran nuclear talks were 'positive,' next round to be held in Vienna, source tells 'Post'

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Iran's top targets in retaliatory strikes likely to include key Israeli infrastructure, US bases

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Iranian families pressured to falsify death records after regime kills protesting loved ones

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Protesters hold placards and Hezbollah flags during a demonstration condemning recent Israeli military actions in Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon February 4, 2026.

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Israeli air defense systems operating during the war with Iran.
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Iran's Islamic regime will fall when its pillars of loyalty begin to crack

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Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq threatens US, Kurdish groups

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Permanent Observer for Palestine withdraws candidacy for UN Presidency

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Factory chimney releases smoke.

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