'Gatekeeper's fall': Hanadala releases photos, documents allegedly from Braverman's phone

Netanyahu-Trump meeting: What the PM is expected to ask for, what he shouldn't concede

OPINION
 Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks with Cabinet secretary Tzachi Braverman during the weekly government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 17, 2018.

'Breaking the glass ceiling': Border Police appoints first Arab-Muslim battalion commander

Yasser Hadaya Asadi graduated as thew first ever Arab-Muslim Battalion Commander of the Israeli Border Police. Asadi, 52, was the only Muslim from 107 graduates, Ynet reported on Sunday.
Bita Shafiei moments after her release from prison, December 27, 2025.

Bita Shafiei walks free: Iranian activist released on bail following prison stint

Snow seen on Mount Hermon on December 28, 2025.b

Rain, snow hit Israel as powerful winter system sparks flood warnings, road rescues

Parents, child rescued after being trapped in flash flood in western Negev

Odessa A'zion at A24's "Marty Supreme" New York Premiere on Dec. 16, 2025 in New York, New York.

Jewish actress Odessa A’zion pushes back after IDF T-shirt controversy: ‘Not a zio!’

 NYC democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani against backdrop of pro-Palestinian protesters. (illustration)

Newest member of Mamdani's inaugural committee praised people tearing Israeli hostage posters

An illustrative image of newspapers covering the Israel-Hamas War.

The decisive battle for Israel isn’t in Gaza – it’s in the world’s imagination

OPINION
An illustrative image of a reporter for Army Radio (Galei Tzahal) taken in 2019.

Is Army Radio a threat to Israel’s democracy?

OPINION
Residents wave Somaliland flags as they gather to celebrate Israel's announcement recognising Somaliland's statehood in downtown Hargeisa, on December 26, 2025.

Strategic misfire? Israel’s Somaliland move fuels new tensions

OPINION
Somalis react after Israel became the first country to formally recognise the self-declared Republic of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state, in Mogadishu, Somalia, December 27, 2025

The Red Sea strategy: What does Israel stand to gain from recognizing Somaliland?

ANALYSIS

Chatam: The Anglo community in Rehovot you’ve probably never heard of

Rabbi Ashenberg, together with participants at the Semichas Chaver Siyum in Jerusalem

Hamas set to elect new terror leader with Hayya, Mashaal in pole position

REPORT

Iran-linked hack group Handala publishes vaguely threatening poem addressed to Netanyahu

(L-R:) Senior Hamas officials Khaled Mashaal and Khalil al-Hayya

'We know the chances are small': Ran Gvili's mother continues fight for son's return

Israeli security forces at the scene where a Palestinian terrorist was shot after carrying out an attack at several locations near the city of Afula, December 26, 2025.

Terrorist who killed two in Israel's North discharged from hospital, brothers arrested

Police apprehend terrorist who murdered two in combined terror attack, December 26, 2025.

Two murdered, two wounded in combined terror attack in three sites in northern Israel

Israel Police 'not responsible' for border security, illegal infiltration, Ben-Gvir says

Two policemen injured at religious youth protest in Jerusalem marking Ahuvia Sandak's death

WATCH
Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Coastal cliffs between Hefer Valley, Netanya collapse due to heavy rainfall from Storm Byron

Coastal cliffs collapse between Hefer Valley and Netanya, December 28, 2025.
INTERVIEW

Israeli recognition is historic 'lifetime achievement,' Somaliland official tells 'Post'

Director-General of Somaliland's Foreign Ministry, Mohamed Abdirahman.

Netanyahu's office was warned about Feldstein before his appointment, Ben-Gvir claims

LIEUTENANT GENERAL Thomas Süssli, Chief of the Armed Forces of the Swiss Army, attends a news conference on the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Bern, Switzerland, March 16, 2020.

Russia preparing for wider war with the West, outgoing Swiss army chief says

US President Donald Trump attends a press conference, as he makes an announcement about the Navy's "Golden Fleet" at Mar-a-lago in Palm Beach, Florida, US, December 22, 2025.

Trump says US won't follow Israel's lead on recognition: 'Does anyone know what Somaliland is?'

Yael Segre celebrates the end of her academic training to further her military career, becoming an IDF captain.

Watching the Gaza border: An IDF observer on warning signs, war, and loss

INTERVIEW
Residents wave Somaliland flags as they gather to celebrate Israel's announcement recognising Somaliland's statehood in downtown Hargeisa, on December 26, 2025.

When it comes to Somaliland recognition, foreign policy is not a popularity contest

EDITORIAL

Pezeshkian: Iran in 'full-fledged war' with Israel, US, and Europe

Syria stands at political impasse as Aleppo violence reflects deep divisions

FRONTLINES
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during an interview in Tehran, Iran, August 28, 2025.

Iran had highest number of executions in over a decade, human rights report says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially recognized the Republic of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state

Israel becomes first UN member state to recognize Somaliland, Netanyahu declares

A Palestinian man charges his mobile phone and electronic devices at a charging point, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, November 1, 2025

Purchases of iPhone 17 Pro soar across Gaza amid 'limited' humanitarian aid

Zionism didn’t start in Europe, and Ethiopian Jews can prove it

OPINION

Lox & Loaded: Jewish gun club grows in popularity amid wave of antisemitism across US

ETHIOPIAN JEWS take part in a prayer of the Sigd holiday on the Armon Hanatziv Promenade overlooking Jerusalem, in November 2025.
OPINION

Instead of tackling antisemitism, cities worldwide are placing Jews under house arrest

 People take part in a protest to mark 100 days since the start of the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza during a march in London, Britain, January 13, 2024.
ByCOOKIE SCHWAEBER-ISSAN

Police investigate after woman goes viral for blowing out Hanukkah candles in Tel Aviv mall

Woman blows out candles of menorah in Tel Aviv mall.
OPINION

Confronting antisemitism requires coordination, action, and Jewish unity

ByWILLIAM DAROFF

Tiferet Sigala, Yarden Cohen: Giving space, community for Jerusalem’s teen geeks

INTERVIEW

Triumphs and tragedies: Unpacking 2025's top stories from Israel and the Jewish world

REVIEW
Tiferet Sigala (L) and Yarden Cohen.
OPINION

Israel and Germany's rekindled alliance presents a strategic opportunity

 Eyal Zamir is seen signing a many-billion-euro deal with Germany to provide Israel’s Arrow 3 missile defense system, 2023 (as Defense Ministry director-general).
ByLEV STESIN
PREVIEW

Boundless Bach at the 12th rollout of the Jerusalem Piano Festival

Ronen Shapira adapts his Cultural Piano to numerous genres and styles.

Mamilla Hotel hosts wine weekend, attracting Israelis from all over the country

Israel’s defense-tech revolution: How MAFAT is shaping the evolution of Israel's warfare

INTERVIEW

Why Israel must reinvest the billions from the Armis sale into its tech ecosystem

OPINION
Dr. Gal Harari.

Anti-Israel Colombia integrates IAI's Barak air defense system

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a ceremony for the 70th cohort of military combat officers, at an army base near Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, October 31, 2024

Netanyahu: Israel to spend $110 billion on independent arms industry

DSIT's sonar systems for naval platforms

Israeli firm that detects divers and submarines considers listing on Tel Aviv exchange

Russian man arrested for deadly stabbing of ex-wife at five-star Dubai hotel

Denmark's postal service company to end letter-carrying service after 400 years due to digitization

A fleet of Dubai Police cars (Audi RS7, Rolls-Royce Cullinan and Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG) arrive at the finish line during the 1000 Miglia Experience UAE 2025 on December 04, 2025 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
REPORT

Netanyahu to decide election date after US trip, citing problems passing draft law

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a ceremony for the 70th cohort of military combat officers, at an army base near Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, October 31, 2024

UK secures migrant return deal with Angola, Namibia as DRC faces visa curbs

Migrants disembark from a British Border Force vessel as they arrive at the Port of Dover, in Dover, Britain, December 29, 2024.

Winter weather in US Northeast leads to thousands of flight delays, cancellations

A DELTA Air Lines plane prepares to take off during a winter storm at Greater Rochester International Airport in Rochester, New York, US, December 26, 2025, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video.

Why was Gal Gadot Chosen to be the 2026 Laureate of the $1 Million Genesis Prize?

STAN POLOVETS, Co-Founder and Chairman of The Genesis Prize Foundation / Gal Gadot

Ester Ben David’s Zionist blueprint for building a stronger state

Ester Ben David and her team: “They are my rock.”

A legacy reinforced: Keren Hayesod shows its impact in Israel’s challenging times

Keren Hayesod World Chairman Sam Grundwerg, CEO & Dir Gen Edna Weinstock-Gabay, Dr. Tzachi Slutsky, Soroka Deputy Hospital Manager, visiting ruins from an Iranian missile at Soroka Hospital, Beersheba

Israel’s aviation rebounds in 2025 with 33% increase in passengers

Delta launches service that will change the flying experience once and for all – Israel included

AN EL AL flight takes off, 14 July, 2025,

Your Investments: The cost of investor overconfidence

Stock market.

Your Taxes: Leaving Israel? Leave your pension here

Israeli shekel

NYC Jewish-Syrian community buys two Jerusalem towers in deal worth over NIS 1 billion

Refill era here to stay? Luxury hotels ditching bottled water

Israeli scientists use AI to improve irrigation and spot plant stress early

STUDY
FILLING A stainless-steel bottle in the corridor’s dispenser at Hilton Paris Opera.
STUDY

Religiosity among Israelis determines what they're willing to do about climate crisis

People take part in a ceremony ahead of the demolition of a damaged building, following the earthquake, in Hualien, Taiwan April 5, 2024.

Taiwan rattled by 7.0 magnitude earthquake, no major damage reported

The First Station, in snow.

Winter in Jerusalem: Valleys, rails, and the city’s stories

Babies begin forming expectations of their parents as early as their first year

STUDY

From test results to bad news: Avoiding info can be coping strategy for threatening situations

STUDY
DR. TAHLI FRENKEL.

Why spending time with grandchildren can ease war trauma for Israel's seniors

Pharmacies report localized shortages as weight-loss injection Mounjaro arrives in Israel

STUDY

Carrying babies in cloth treated with insecticide reduces malaria cases

From visiting to belonging: Micol Radzik's path to aliyah

Israel expected to advance aliyah emergency aid plan for new immigrants

Micol Radzik on the Tayelet in Tel Aviv, 2019.

'Come home!': FM Gideon Sa’ar urges Diaspora Jews to make aliyah to Israel

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar at the Knesset, December 2, 2025; illustrative.

Israel advancing emergency aliyah plans in wake of Bondi Beach massacre

Ofir Sofer (middle), Rabbi Eli Schlanger (Far right)
POLL

'Eyeing the exits': Nearly half of British Jews don't feel welcome in UK, don't see future

 Demonstrators hold Israeli and British flags outside the Law Courts, during a march against antisemitism, after an increase in the UK, during a temporary truce between the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and Israel, in London, Britain November 26, 2023.

It’s all about the timing

Newly built or second-hand? What homebuyers need to know

OPINION
Louis Marshall 2-4 Tel Aviv.

Nice presentations, less reality: Supervision in urban renewal under criticism

The Command Compound – Heart of the Old City.

Beersheba’s southern command to be vacated and transformed into a residential and leisure complex

Young family dreaming about moving into new house.

The dream persists: New survey shows Israelis’ confidence in the housing market

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LIVE: The Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference - where diplomacy meets the future

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'Biggest issue in Israeli society': First Lady Michal Herzog at 'Post' Trauma Conference

MDA Heroes   

 Michaela Berku: "Doing good is the best therapy."

Michaela Berku on volunteering, MDA, and saving lives through service

MDA Women's Circle launches new year with "Adopt a Paramedic" initiative

'I’ll keep showing up': MDA paramedic who saved dozens on Oct 7 recounts 600 days

Podcasts   

The Deep Dive: 2025 recap

2025 recap: A year of triumph, resilience, and shifting tides

'I’m not religious but I started praying': Bondi survivor Arsen Ostrovsky speaks

Professor Michael Edelstein: Measles outbreak and the trust gap in vaccines

US Politics   

An illustration of oil rigs over a background of a Venezuelan flag.

White House orders US forces to focus on 'quarantine' of Venezuelan oil for next two months

Discovery of a million more potential Epstein documents delays further releases

Trump 'shares love of young girls,' Epstein wrote in card purportedly sent to Nassar

Diaspora   

PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog and his wife Michal attend a ceremony marking one week since the mass shooting attack in Sydney. His recent appearance at the American Zionist Movement (AZM) Biennial National Assembly should be understood not as a courtesy call, but as a meaningful marker of shared destiny, t

Why President Herzog reaffirms the shared destiny of Israel and the Jewish world

Mezuzahs torn from Toronto seniors’ apartment building in second incident in month

Actors, leaders, Holocaust survivors among 18 notable Jews who died in 2025

Judaism   

DESPITE BEING fully recognized by the Chief Rabbinate, many Orthodox converts are living in legal and social limbo, denied citizenship, as they face systemic bureaucracy and discrimination at the Interior Ministry. Here, women pray at the Western Wall.

Recognized by rabbinate, Orthodox converts trapped in Israeli legal limbo

When brothers reunite: Ezekiel’s prophecy and Israel’s deepest divide

Parashat Vayigash: A shoulder of tears

Christian World   

Tour Guide Ofek Ron Carmel leads Israeli tourists from all backgrounds through the cobblestone streets of Mi’ilya. They wear Santa hats to be festive and keep their ears warm.

A look at Israel's winter wonderland in the Galilee, where Christmas comes to life

Christian communities grow slowly as share of population falls in Middle East, North Africa

Christmas passes peacefully in the Middle East

Food   

Toasting the new year with a colorful, cordial cocktail.

Cocktail party: Raising a glass to 2026 with the stories behind your favorite drinks

Carlton hotel in Tel Aviv: Where breakfast is a meal to be savored

George & John: Classic cool rules in Tel Aviv

Archaeology   

Rare Byzantine-era gold coins discovered at the Hyrcania archaeological site in the northern Judean Desert.

Byzantine-era coins, ring discovered in Judean Desert point to Christian presence in region

Archaeologists find 2,000-year-old labyrinth that reveals India’s role in ancient global trade

Oldest evidence of transport technology uncovered in White Sands, New Mexico

Science   

An AI generated illustrative image of a nuclear power plant on the surface of the Moon, with the Earth seen in the background.

Russia plans a nuclear power plant on Moon within a decade

A newly discovered species complicates the human origin story

The world is pushing for nuclear fusion energy. Israel has the keys to crack it

Culture   

NETA ROTH in ‘Jaffa.’

What to watch in Israel: Crime drama on Jewish-Arab life and a pop culture phenomenon

Before ‘SNL,’ there was Sid Caesar and a roomful of Jewish writers

Israeli American director, screenwriter Amos Poe dies at 76 after battle with cancer

History   

The entrance of the former German Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, Germany.

From Auschwitz to Dachau: How a pharmacist became central to Nazi camp medical crimes

This week in Jewish history: Yearning for Zion

Inside the Jewish Brigade’s untold Holocaust survivor rescue operations

OMG   

eople look at the artifacts found during the construction of the new metro line at the Colosseum metro station which promise to dazzle locals and tourists with museum-like displays of archaeological discoveries, in Rome, Italy December 16, 2025.

New Rome metro stations showcase ancient treasures after years of delays

Trump tells children, 'US military is tracking Santa' at NORAD's Christmas calls event

Amanda Seyfried learns about Shaker founder for film ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’

Consumerism   

Airwallex Team.

Investors eye growth: Airwallex raises $330M in successful funding round

Narin Ammara turns adversity into ambition with the upcoming launch of Narins Beauty

Wood, bamboo, and warm light: Celebrate Hanukkah with green and unique design

Astrology   

Horoscope.

Daily Horoscope for December 15, 2025 – all Zodiac signs

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President-CEO Eric Fingerhut addressing attendees at the 2024 General Assembly.

“We know what needs to be done”: Eric Fingerhut enters JPost DC Conference with hopefulness

Chen G. Schimmel and the demands for truth: A new generation bearing witness

From vision to action

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