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Ze'ev Erlich.

Civilian unlawfully embedded with IDF killed by Hezbollah fire in southern Lebanon

IDF soldier killed, two wounded in same incident • Ze'ev Erlich, 70, entered Lebanon with forces without authorization from Northern Command

Sergeant-Major Eitan Ben Ami.

IDF announces Sgt.-Maj. Eitan Ben Ami, killed in southern Lebanon

A UNIFIL peacekeeper preparing for a patrol along the Blue Line in Labounieh, south Lebanon, April 8 20

As north nears a deal, UNIFIL’s failures cry out for overhaul

Hamas Nukhba terrorists being held at the Ofer Prison, near Jerusalem, Israel, August 28, 2024

Hamas, Fatah officials warn: We will start wars in Israeli prisons

Breaking News

Turkey condemns Houthi attack on Turkish owned cargo ship

Father and son arrested on suspicion of involvement in Qalansawe murder

Humanitarian aid delivered to Gaza via Jordanian Air Force

Top News

Ukrainian service personnel use searchlights as they search for drones in the sky over the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 20, 2024.

Ukraine reportedly strikes Russia with Storm Shadow missiles as int'l embassies close in Kyiv

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Defence Minister Yoav Gallant speaks during a press conference at Hakirya base in Tel Aviv, following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to fire him from his position as a Defence Minister, on November 5, 2024.

Gallant, Gantz slam idea of incremental military gov’t in Gaza; Smotrich accuses them of weakness

By YONAH JEREMY BOB , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

MK Simcha Rotman, Head of the Constitution Committee, at a committee vote on the judicial reform legislation at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on March 5, 2023.

Constitution Committee begins debates on bill associated with judicial reform

By ELIAV BREUER

IDF kills Hezbollah anti-tank missile commanders, says group's firepower 'dramatically reduced

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., March 11, 2024.

US vetoes UN Security Council resolution on Gaza war

By REUTERS , HANNAH SARISOHN

Israel at War

U.S. special envoy Amos Hochstein speaks to the media after meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon November 19, 2024.

US envoy arrives in Israel to try sealing Hezbollah ceasefire

By REUTERS , HANNAH SARISOHN , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

IDF soldiers conduct localized raids in southern Lebanon, November 20, 2024.

IAF kills senior Hezbollah commanders, civilian killed in southern Lebanon

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Smoke billows over Nahariya after Israeli anti-air defence systems operate, as they intercept rockets fired from south of Lebanon to Israel, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Nahariya, northern Israel, October 28, 2024.

Hezbollah fires rockets six miles from Israel, targeting UNIFIL posts

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Sheikh Naim Qassem accepts condolences for the death of Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr, who was killed on Tuesday in an Israeli strike, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon August 2, 2024.

Hezbollah chief says group received US ceasefire proposal

Sergeant Major (res.) Roi Sasson, a soldier in the Kfir Brigade, who fell in combat in northern Gaza, November 20, 2024.

IDF announces fallen soldier Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Roi Sasson killed in northern Gaza Strip

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Hot Opinion

Sa'ar, your mission, should you choose to accept it: Save Israeli diplomacy

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How will Hezbollah factor into Lebanon’s future?

By NEVILLE TELLER

Palestinians must accept that violent terror tactics have failed to stop Israel

By YISRAEL MEDAD

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By SHERWIN POMERANTZ

Mainstream media downplayed violent Amsterdam pogrom

By GIL HOFFMAN

Israel News

An ambulance is seen at the entrance to the emergency room of Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer in Ramat Gan, Israel, July 15, 2023.

Druze ed-tech startup wins NIS 300,000 investment from Sheba Medical Center initiative

By RAQUEL GUERTZENSTEIN FROHLICH

Palestinians make their way as they inspect the damages at Jabalya refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, May 30, 2024

Israel committed in writing to US: No forced displacement of Palestinians from northern Gaza

Less than half of Israelis think gov't war decisions based on professional considerations

IDF troops standing to attention at Maj.-Gen. Shlomi Binder's swearing in ceremony for head of military intelligence, August 21, 2024.

Knesset votes on bill to reshape intelligence oversight under PMO

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Israeli security forces, including from the IDF, Border Police, and Shin Bet, operate in the Jenin area in the West Bank, November 20, 2024.

Border Police, Shin Bet eliminate terrorists, destroy four explosives labs in Jenin raids

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Analyses & Features

Canadian-Israeli philanthropist Sylvan Adams.

Canadian-Israeli philanthropist Sylvan Adams challenges Roger Waters to debate

By ALAN ROSENBAUM

Steven Lowy, Keren Hayesod chairman Sam Grundwerg, and President Isaac Herzog

Steven Lowy honored for leadership as antisemitism rises and war continues

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

Stars including Sia and Ben Stiller turn out to honor Nova survivors at ADL ‘Concert Again Hate'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

What I learned from my father’s strange journey from Poland to the California desert

By DVORA TREISMAN/ JTA

View of the destruction caused by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, November 2, 2023

Many Kfar Aza residents won't celebrate Rosh Hashanah at home, with KKL-JNF helping to rebuild

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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IAI net income spikes by 74% to $416m.

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An El Al Boeing Dreamliner is prepared for its next flight at Ben Gurion Airport last month.

El Al’s record-breaking year continues with near-monopoly amid Israel-Hamas war

View of the Israeli Leviathan gas field gas processing rig near the Israeli city of Caesarea, on January 31, 2019.

NewMed Energy sees record quarter, with $147m. net profit

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Zim Integrated Shipping Services

ZIM reports $1.13 billion net profit in Q3 , driven by record cargo volume

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Market Data

Middle East

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant seen following the attack on Iran, October 26, 2024

Has Netanyahu developed a new doctrine to finally strike Iran’s nuke program for real?

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Gideon Sa'ar, Foreign Affairs Minister, March 28, 2024.

Sa'ar, your mission, should you choose to accept it: Save Israeli diplomacy

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Iran’s FM Abbas Araghchi moves to cement Russia, Qatar ties

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Smoke rises after airstrikes on a rebel-held part of the southern city of Deraa, Syria, June 15, 2017 (illustrative).

Israel strikes residential buildings, industrial zone in Palmyra, Syria, state media says

UNIFIL PEACEKEEPERS look out at the Lebanese-Israeli border, from the roof of a watchtower ‏in the town of Marwahin, in southern Lebanon, on Saturday. Never was an organization less interim than UNIFIL, the writer quips.

Italy admits rockets that hit UN forces were from Hezbollah, not Israel

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

World News

A serviceman of 24th Mechanized brigade named after King Danylo of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fires a 2s5 "Hyacinth-s" self-propelled howitzer towards Russian troops at a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region, Ukraine November 18, 2024.

US embassy in Kyiv shuts down over amid air raid alert

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference in Vilnius, Lithuania January 10, 2024.

'Israel is afraid of Putin,' Zelensky claims amid lack of support against Russia

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A woman dressed in Somaliland's flag colours parades to celebrate the 33rd anniversary of their Independence in Hargeisa, Somaliland, May 18, 2024.

Trump Team May recognize Somaliland independence, former UK Minister claims

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF

Islamophobia Discussion with Linda Sarsour, Ingrid Mattson and Imam Zaid Shakir

Hotel in Texas to host two speakers tied to Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood

By MATHILDA HELLER

THE UNITED NATIONS Security Council holds a regular meeting on the situation in the Middle East, focusing on Israel in relation to the Palestinians.

UNSC to vote on no-strings Gaza ceasefire

Antisemitism / BDS

Protesters gather at The University of Manchester campus, as students occupy parts of British university campuses to protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Manchester, Britain, May 7, 2024.

Edinburgh University accuses Palestine Society of threatening staff, to take disciplinary action

By MATHILDA HELLER

People attend a demonstration against anti-Semitism at the Place de la Bastille, in Paris, France, June 20, 2024.

Social media antisemitism surges in Germany, France, and Hungary after October 7

By MATHILDA HELLER

NEWLY ELECTED members of the US Congress pose for a photo on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, last week. Eighty-eight Democratic Congress members signed a letter to President Joe Biden, promoting the European-sponsored fable of settler violence.

Dangerous escalation: The assault on Judaism penetrates US Congress

Demonstrators take part in a pro-Palestine march in Berlin January 10, 2009. More that 6000 people shouted anti-Israel slogans to protest against the air strikes and the military action in the Gaza Strip, police said on Saturday

German architecture foundation revokes award to artist over Israel boycott stance

By RAQUEL GUERTZENSTEIN FROHLICH

Shopify faces backlash for hosting store selling antisemitic merchandise

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Environment & Climate Change

KKL-JNF staff at work to prepare new agriculture fields in Israel's south.

A year after October 7, Israeli farmers from the South need help to rebuild

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Oslo's environmental, feminine choice, 20 years later - opinion

By CARMIT LUBANOV

A bee in action

Millions of bees killed daily on highways across US

By ELLIE ESQUENAZI

Just Stop Oil protesters endanger rare lichen during vandalism attack on Stonehenge

Two climate activists charged with spraying paint on UK's Stonehenge

Ambassador Gideon Behar, Israel’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and Sustainability, in his pesticide-free garden in Modi'in.

Despite war, we are leading the fight against climate change, says Israel’s Climate Ambassador

By ROSSELLA TERCATIN

JPost Spotlight

A female IDF soldier stands in front of a tank.

Religious women break barriers in new IDF combat soldier unit

The unit will be drafted next Tuesday in the Combat Intelligence Corps, and soldiers will have spiritual and halachic guidance throughout their service.

Left to right: Dani Kogan, Deborah Greenblatt, Julian Voloj, Francil Tejada and Bradley T. Borden hold copies of "We Are Brooklyn: Stories of Hope,” a comic book celebrating the diversity of the borough and pf participants in the We Are All Brooklyn Fellowship Against Hate, Nov. 18, 2024.

To fight hate, these Brooklyn-based nonprofit professionals wrote a comic book together

A new comic book, "We Are Brooklyn: Stories of Hope," showcases personal narratives from a diverse group of Brooklyn nonprofit professionals who participated in a Jewish Community Relations Council.

Coming Home: Aliyah in Times of War

How to make aliyah amid war: Everything you need to know

LIVE: Leaders and experts talk aliyah, how to manage finances, real estate in the middle of war.

The Jerusalem Post Miami Summit

The Jerusalem Post is heading to the Magic City. Are you coming with us?

On December 9-10, 2024, The Jerusalem Post will host an inaugural summit in Miami, bringing forward the discussions about the "tomorrow" of our community.

Israel Real Estate

Yair Kaplan CEO, Bank of Jerusalem.

CEO of Bank of Jerusalem: "Mortgage terms should be extended to 35 years"

By OFER PETERSBURG

CEO of the Planning Administration Rafi Elmaliach in an interview with Ofer Petersburg.

Planning Administration CEO: 'Periphery no longer exists in modern planning terms'

By OFER PETERSBURG

Discounted Apartment: Over 90,000 Applicants Will Compete for Fewer Than 5,000 Units

Discounted apartments: Over 90,000 applicants compete for less than 5,000 units

By OFER PETERSBURG

Theatron Jerusalem: A fusion of history, hospitality, and heart

Real Estate Media Mayors Conference in collaboration with Leumi Mortgages

Who holds the key to building the nation at record speed?

By OFER PETERSBURG

Christian World

Pope Francis looks on, at a mass to open the Synod of Bishops in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, October 2, 2024.

Pope Francis suggests international study into possible genocide in Gaza

In excerpts published on Sunday from a new forthcoming book, the pontiff said some international experts say "what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide."

Pope Francis meets delegation of Israeli Hostages Freed in Gaza, at the Vatican, November 14, 2024.

'I pray for your people,' says Pope Francis to families of hostages who visit Vatican

The delegation was led by the Hostage Family Forum, the Foreign Ministry, Israeli embassies in Rome and the Vatican, the government's hostage unit, and the Defense Ministry.

The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree is lighted in Washington, December 3, 2013.

‘Grinch’ pro-Palestinian protesters force cancelation of Melbourne Christmas tradition

The protest entitled ‘Crash the Christmas Windows’ was planned by anti-war activist Amy Settal, according to the Guardian.

US secretary of defense nominee Pete Hegseth

Pete Hegseth, Trump’s defense secretary pick, has Christian and Crusades-inspired tattoos

The nominee for US secretary of defense has a slew of religiously inspired tattoos that have drawn attention as Hegseth’s public vetting for a position in Trump’s cabinet has begun.

Health & Wellness

MDA Ambulance

MDA suspends volunteer for racism against Hezbollah victim

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Matanyahu Englman - The State Comptroller of Israel, Local Government Conference 2024

Comptroller: Health Min. did not ensure IVF unit problems were fixed prior to embryo swap incident

MDA's Dani Shtarkman and Peter Lasnik

'Since when do people shoot at ambulances?' MDA medic recalls October 7 atrocities

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

MDA medics from the Rahat Station that saved lives on October 7

MDA medics from Rahat 'stayed as long as they were needed' on October 7

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

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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

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.

'He fought with EMTs; I fought to keep victims alive'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance at an Ofakim MDA station.

Reflecting on Oct. 7: 'Everyone knew exactly what they needed to do'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Conferences

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The Jerusalem Post hosts conference highlighting aliyah amid war

Archaeology

View of the bow looking east at Ma‘agan Mikhael B shipwreck.

US WWII warship found years after being sunken by Imperial Japanese Navy

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Solomon defeating the devil.

5th-century Turkish amulet shows Solomon defeating the devil, with angels invoked by a scribe

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

US Politics

THEN-US PRESIDENT Donald Trump hosts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as the foreign ministers of Bahrain (left) and the UAE, at the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House, September 15, 2020.

President-elect Donald Trump is poised to pick up where he left off

By JUDAH WAXELBAUM

US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, May 10, 2023.

Progressive senators push to block offensive US arms sales to Israel

By HANNAH SARISOHN

Diaspora

AMSTERDAM MAYOR Femke Halsema attends a new conference following the pogrom against Israeli soccer fans in the city last week. The mayor called it ‘an outburst of antisemitism the likes of which we hoped not to see again in Amsterdam.’

'Amsterdam riots were not pogrom,' mayor says, defending Muslim population

By YUVAL BARNEA

Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Zvika Klein in a conversation with Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee.

JCU 2024: A global call for unity

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Judaism

Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, March 16, 2024

Why the Weitzman, a museum of American Jewish history, tapped an Israeli as its next CEO

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA

ANCIENT COLUMNS lie in the submerged Egyptian harbor of Tyre/Sour, southern Lebanon, seen in 2019.

Southern Lebanon is actually northern Israel

By MICHAEL FREUND

Food

Run, don't walk, to Bardelas restaurant

By LINDA GRADSTEIN

Vin et Viande

Vin et Viande: 100% Israeli despite the French name

By GLORIA DEUTSCH

Culture

IPO ACADEMY participants, from left, are Tamar Deutsch, Inbar Segev Susar, Alevtyna Rakhmanina, and Nasif Francis.

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra cultivates the next generation of talent

By SARAH HERSHENSON

The damage caused to vehicles and buildings from a missile fired from Lebanon, in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, November 17, 2024

Haifa museums rally to save Templar artifacts

Travel

The Great Wall of China is easily accessible from Beijing.

Beijing, China: Eastern promise that delivers

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Poolside with beverages at the ever-so-grand America Colony Hotel: Writer Noa Amouyal (L) and ‘In Jerusalem’ Editor Erica Schachne.

Jeremy Berkovits: The face of Jerusalem's popular American Colony Hotel

By NOA AMOUYAL , ERICA SCHACHNE

Podcasts

Pro-Palestinian protesters face Dutch police while taking part in a banned demonstration in Amsterdam, Netherlands November 10, 2024.

Dutch Jewish community leader: Amsterdam Jews not responsible for Middle East war

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Michael Oren talks Donald Trump and Iran on The Jerusalem Post Podcast.

Michael Oren: The Iranians are scared of Donald Trump

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Aliyah

IMMIGRANTS FROM the Soviet Union, including an elderly man wearing military decorations, arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport in 1991. In 2025, we should, and can, bring in the next million olim, says the writer.

Israel must seize historic opportunity to welcome one million olim in 2025

By IDAN TENDLER

Nefesh B'Nefesh opens new center in Tel Aviv

Nefesh B'Nefesh opens new Tel Aviv center to assist olim, lone soldiers

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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Science

Businesswoman sitting on her desk in an office (illustrative).

Sitting, lying down for too long may increase health and heart issues

By RAQUEL GUERTZENSTEIN FROHLICH

Close up of a man using mobile smart phone

OMG: Using abbreviations in texts may make you seem insincere

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

An Iranian missile is displayed during a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran April 29, 2022.

IAEA director: False to say IDF attacked an Iranian nuke site

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

A plenum session on the appointment of Israel Katz as Defense Minister and Gideon Sa'ar as Foreign Minister at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on November 8, 2024.

'Scum': Anti-Gideon Sa'ar sticker placed on sign at his children's school

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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Mike Evans & Evangelical leaders presenting Friends of Zion Award to Donald Trump.

A Quarter of a Billion Friends of Zion Unite for the Anniversary of the October 7 Massacre

Singer Avraham Tal releases music video post-ZAKA trauma retreat

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