Israel’s struggle to recover its fallen hostages from Gaza

EDITORIAL

Remains of two Gaza hostages arrive at National Center of Forensic Medicine for identification

Hundreds attend the funeral procession of slain Israeli hostage Idan Shtivi, September 1, 2025

'Moments that Remain': A glimpse into heroism and hope since October 7

A memorial ceremony at the Nova festival marking two years since the October 7 massacre when Hamas terrorists infiltrated southern Israel, murdering more than 1,200 people. October 07, 2025.
Pallbearers carry the coffin with the body of Israeli soldier Daniel Shimon Perez, who was killed during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas.

Bodies of two deceased hostages arrive at forensics institute, US prepares for int'l force in Gaza

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REPORT

Former Gaza hostages sent letters to families via Red Cross during captivity

Former hostage Rom Braslavski, with his family, in a helicopter on their way to the hospital. October 14, 2025.

‘They demanded he convert to Islam’: Rom Braslavski was alone for two years, mother says

ANALYSIS

With ceasefire in place, activists shift to long term objective, Israel's destruction

ANALYSIS

Western activists back Hamas executions, embrace ‘collaborator’ narrative

An armed Hamas terrorist stands guard as a Red Cross vehicle arrives to receive from Hamas terrorists the remains of deceased hostages who had been held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, in Gaza City, October 14, 2025.

Hamas knows where additional remains of murdered hostages are, Israeli official tells 'Post'

IDF troops receive remains of killed hostages at official ceremony, October 14, 2025.

Hamas 'returns' body of Gazan who cooperated with IDF in place of fallen hostage

U.S. President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi meet ahead of a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza war, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025.

Egypt seeks 10,000-person Palestinian force in Gaza as talks on Trump plan enter second phase

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro talks to member of the media on the day of Venezuela's mayoral and council elections, in Caracas, Venezuela, July 27, 2025.

Trump authorizes CIA operations in Venezuela, raising pressure on Maduro

The book that holds a thousand truths

Award-winning photojournalist Chen G. Schimmel

IDF should ‘prepare plan to defeat Hamas,’ says Defense Minister Katz

Trump says Israel could resume fighting in Gaza if Hamas fails to uphold ceasefire deal

REPORT
IDF soliers operate in the Gaza Strip, September 28, 2025.

1,158 Israeli soldiers and other security personnel fell since start of October 7 massacre

Released hostage Avinatan Or arrives to Beilinson hospital, October 13, 2025.

Personal nutritionist, tailored menu: Returning hostages given strict diet as rehab begins

Released hostage Evyatar David, who was kidnapped during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas and taken to Gaza, reacts upon arrival at the site of Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Hospital, amid a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, in Petah Tikva, Isr

Premature euphoria: While Israel celebrated the hostage deal, Hamas played cynical games

OPINION

Avenged Sevenfold singer sends welcome-home message to released hostages

Senior Syrian official denies return of Eli Cohen’s remains imminent, negotiations in progress

M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold performs at Carroponte on June 16, 2025 in Milan, Italy.

Nvidia CEO Huang welcomes return of employee held in Gaza for two years

Released hostage Avinatan Or, who was kidnapped on October 7, 2023, arrival at the site of Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Hospital, October 13, 2025.
WATCH

Deceased Gaza hostage Daniel Peretz laid to rest

Pallbearers carry the coffin with the body of Israeli soldier Daniel Shimon Perez, who was killed during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas.

Israel identifies remains of slain hostages Uriel Baruch, Eitan Levi, and Tamir Nimrodi

The Israeli-Palestinian restaurant Kanaan in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, is an Israeli-Palestinian restaurant brand

'Make hummus, not war': How the Israeli-Palestinian owned hummus bar moves forward despite the war

A SHOT from Haggai Levy’s ‘Etty.’

New series by Hagai Levi, ‘Etty,’ to open at Cinema South Film Festival

US President Joe Biden, flanked by US Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaks after negotiators reached a phased deal for a ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, during remarks at the White House in Washington, US, January 15, 2025.

The Clooneys and the politics of human rights shaping US foreign policy

OPINION
A Jewish person holds Tehillim, the book of Psalms, seeking solace in prayer on Memorial Day in Tel Aviv

Psalms in tunnels: How scripture steadied Israel’s hostages

Are Arab states already pessimistic about the future of the Gaza deal?

ANALYSIS

Planning underway for international force in Gaza, says US adviser

Trucks carry aid for Palestinians, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 14, 2025.

Negotiations for phase B on hold until all hostage remains returned, senior officials tell 'Post'

Michel Illouz eulogizes his son, Guy, whose body was returned by Hamas on October 14, 2025.

'Rest now, my darling': Israel pays final respects to fallen hostage Guy Illouz

 SHLOMO ARTZI in concert in 2011.

Israeli music icon Shlomo Artzi performs for freed hostages

WATCH

Tunisian groups launch campaign to criminalize normalization with Israel

Mehdi Hasan posts, then deletes about ways 'Gaza genocide' worse than Holocaust

A PROTEST MARCH at which Israel is accused of ‘starving Gaza’ takes place in New York City last month. Even Left and Center Israelis cannot deny that antisemitic prejudices play a role in Israel’s deteriorating international status, says the writer.

Antisemitism claims, Hamas proscription used to criminalize Palestine solidarity in West

Pro Palestine protesters march in Oslo, Norway, October 11, 2025.
OPINION

A common future for Kurds and Jews: A shared history and moral duty

TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the UN General Assembly last month. In an age when antisemitism and anti-Kurdish racism are used by states as political tools, solidarity and truth remain the final acts of resistance, the writer argues.
ByAMED MARDIN

Second man arrested in connection to defacement of three Halifax synagogues, police announce

IDF must ensure lessons of October 7 massacre are not lost amid the ceasefire's calm

ANALYSIS

In pictures: New footage and images of freed hostages reuniting with loved ones

IDF soldiers prepare their weapons on a tank at a temporary army base opposite the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
ANALYSIS

Syria’s President Sharaa makes historic trip to Russia

 Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa attends an interview with Reuters at the presidential palace, in Damascus, Syria March 10, 2025.
OPINION

Israel must secure Trump’s support to confront Hamas provocations

SECURITY FORCES pay respects as a convoy bringing four bodies arrives at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir, early yesterday morning, but one was not a hostage. Hamas violations of the agreement cannot be ignored, the writer stresses.
ByERIC R. MANDEL
OPINION

Gaza peace plan: Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar show leverage over Trump

ByPAUL WEBSTER HARE

A Black Hawk without pilots? Inside Sikorsky’s S-70 U-Hawk

When Middle East ceasefires lead to runways in Idaho

ANALYSIS
ikorsky S-70UAS™ U-Hawk™ helicopter

'A whole pile of them': Trump says US ordered 28 'updated' B-2 stealth bombers

 IDF Unit 9900 Commander Brig.-Gen. Erez Askal at the Ramon GeoInt360 conference.

PM Netanyahu appoints Brig.-Gen. Askal to lead National AI Directorate

Einav Zangauker at celebrations at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv as negotiators sign deal freeing all hostages from Gaza, October 09, 2025.

All hostages are coming home, but the war’s outcome is still unwritten

Hamas must disarm or 'all hell breaks loose,' Netanyahu tells CBS

US CENTCOM calls on Hamas to 'end violence against innocent Gazans'

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against backdrop of IDF soldiers at war in Gaza (illustration).

Syrian president to use Putin talks to request extradition of deposed president Assad, sources say

A wall painted with a damaged drawing of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is pictured in the al-Qadam neighbourhood in Damascus, Syria, March 26, 2025.
OPINION

Turkey vs Iran: The endless struggle holding the Middle East hostage

 Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meets with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, in Tehran, Iran September 3, 2023.
BySALEM ALKETBI

How the Houthis rule in Yemen: Prisons, a personality cult, and pilfered food aid

Protesters, predominantly Houthi supporters, rally to celebrate the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza on the day it went into effect, in Sanaa, Yemen, October 10, 2025.

One man’s mission to bridge faiths and defend Israel in a fractured world

ROBERT STEARNS, American pastor and Evangelical Christian leader who founded Eagles’ Wings Ministries

Twenty Years of Identity, Belonging, and Hope

FROM RIGHT, Shaul Pshebilski Shaulov, Eliezer Shkedi, chairman of I Belong. Israel  (Masa Israeli), President Isaac Herzog and First Lady, Michal Herzog, Yulia Pshebilski  Shaulov, and Uri Cohen, CEO of I Belong. Israel.

From surplus to survival, Leket Israel feeds a nation in times of crisis

Leket Israel Hot Meals Distribution at Soup Kitchen.

Israel vehicle tracking company Ituran signs sponsorship agreement with Gaza Envelope club

Amid war and investor pullback, US fund manager Ezra Gardner keeps faith in Israeli tech

MK OTEF DAROM basketball administration poses after signing a sponsorship deal with Ituran.
OPINION

When AI disrupts a trillion-dollar industry: Being #1 on Google isn’t enough anymore

GOOGLE OFFICES in London: Is this the end of Google’s dominance? Quite the opposite, maintains the writer.
ByON YAVIN

Can you forgive your computer, smartphone, or app when it breaks down?

‘WE WANTED TO explore whether feelings like disappointment or anger toward technology can give way to forgiveness, allowing people to keep using it without resentment’

Israel Bonds reports $5.7 billion milestone two years after Oct. 7

Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki erupts, spewing ash 10 km. into the sky

Mount Lewotobi, Indonesia, photographed in c. 1915; illustrative.

Hiking the Holy Land: Between harvest and rain

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg gestures while departing with other activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla, a humanitarian expedition to Gaza, at the port of Barcelona, Spain August 31, 2025.

Greta Thunberg’s flotilla creates 165 tons of air pollution, same as 206 trips from Tel Aviv to UK

A tourist covers her face near Jaffa Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem as a sand storm hits.

Air pollution: A persistent plague on the lungs of Jerusalemites

‘We are here to accompany you’: Inside IDF mental health reception of hostages

Netanyahu cancels trial appearance following bronchitis diagnosis

Maj. (res.) Yossi Mitz manages ATAL’s northern branch.
EXPLAINER

Gaza hostage release: What hormonal changes, psychological effects mean for freed captives

Pain, blindness and shrapnel wounds: What is the health status of the released hostages?

Health Ministry instructs hospitals to prepare for treatment of hostages under severe malnutrition

Nina Verzhbolovich: Russian olah builds cleaning empire in Israel

Avraham Vofsi: An aliyah journey painted on canvas

OH MY CLEANING team.
OPINION

Creating an Israel that I believe in: Making aliyah and enlisting in the IDF

THE WRITER arrives on aliyah. ‘Already in those college days, I knew Israel was my home, and that after graduation I would make aliyah,’ she states.
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FEATURE

‘Our first in Israel’: The immigrants celebrating their first Rosh Hashanah as Israelis

An illustrative image of a man blowing a shofar outside an El Al plane in Israel.

Russian Jews seek a home in Israel as Ukraine war drives aliyah wave

SINCE THE outbreak of the Ukraine-Russia War in 2022, some 80,000 Russians and 20,000 Ukrainians and Belarusians with Jewish ancestry have made aliyah. Here, people attend a ceremony marking the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Tel Aviv in February 2024.

Midtown Jerusalem: A new chapter for the city center

From Miami to Tel Aviv: Penthouse sells for NIS 5.6m in Yad Eliyahu

Midtown Jerusalem project.

How much did the French pay for a full-floor penthouse in Bat Yam?

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On the way to 800 housing units in Jaffa D: Mega urban renewal project launches

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Riverside in Yehud-Monosson’s Gadot offers luxury living with direct access to Tel Aviv

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Conference   

The Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference at the Friends of Zion Museum, in Jerusalem, September 16, 2025

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

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

'Paying a heavy price: ZAKA head Dubi Weissenstern speaks at 'Post' Trauma Conference

MDA Heroes   

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

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

Meet the medic who understood on Oct. 7 she must do everything to save a child

MDA hero: We’re here for each and every person who is sick or injured

Podcasts   

Ben Shapiro sits down with JPost

Ben Shapiro: Trump’s peace deal, Charlie Kirk’s legacy, and his new book

Tommy Robinson asks: '55 Muslim states - but no room for Israel?'

Czechia Beyond Prague: Synagogues, Caves & Mansions

US Politics   

Christiane Amanpour CBE, Chief International Anchor, CNN speaks at the Sir Harry Evans Investigative Journalism Summit in London, Britain, May 15, 2024.

CNN's Amanpour suggests Hamas's hostages were 'treated better than the average Gazan'

Plane carrying Hegseth makes unscheduled landing due to windshield crack

Milei delivers letter of thanks to Trump from Argentine families of Israeli hostages

Diaspora   

Artem Dolgopyat of Israel in action on the pommel horse at the Paris 2024 Olympics, July 27, 2024

Sport court rejects Israeli appeals after Indonesia denies visas for gymnastics championship

Diaspora Jews: Israel's ignored partners in supporting the war - opinion

Boston councilors slam City Hall for allowing violent pro-Palestinian Oct. 7 rally without permit

Judaism   

 REJOICING IN  the Torah at  Tel Aviv’s Rabin  Square.

Simchat Torah 5786: A joyful return and reflection on the hostages - opinion

Unity and gratutude are the secrets of the Jews' strength

Who was Uriel Baruch, the kindhearted family man killed at the Nova festival?

Christian World   

Bishop Robert Stearns leading Watchmen on the Wall

'God works in midst of our pain': Bishop Stearns reflects on peace and hope amid historic ceasefire

The Evangelical dimension: The Trump administration’s policy

Israel's Christian friends have no qualms about standing by the Jewish people

Food   

THE LOPOTA Resort combining pampering with breathtaking Georgian nature.

Sweet Georgian breezes: Visiting the Lopota Resort Grape Harvest Festival

The Afui Bake House: A Friday-only high-end brunch in Tel Aviv

Fringe: Good Mediterranean food at the Jerusalem Theatre

Archaeology   

THIS SEAL, dated to the First Temple period, features Hebrew writing that reads: ‘Natan-melech the king’s servant,’ which is a quote that appears in the second ‘Book of Kings,’ 23:11.

Unearthing Israel’s past: Archaeological discoveries change our understanding of history

1,500-year-old synagogue uncovered in Golan Heights nature reserve

New Israeli technology lets archaeologists see underground without digging

Science   

An artist's illustration shows a rapidly feeding black hole that is emitting powerful gas outflows.

Black holes can move and 'reawaken,' scientists say

Israeli desert microorganisms survive harsh climate, offer clues to life on Mars

Scientists unveil nano technique that could transform clean energy and tech

Culture   

MACCABI TEL AVIV'S Lonnie Walker shoots during the yellow-and-blue's 92-71 Euroleague loss to host Barcelona on Tuesday night.

Maccabi Tel Aviv falls to 1-3 in EuroLeague as Holon, Herzliya lose

Blue-and-white bows out of World Cup race race

Israeli judokas shine at Grand Prix in Peru

History   

YITZHAK RABIN and Yasser Arafat, under the gaze of then-US president Bill Clinton, sign a peace protocol on the White House lawn in 1993.

Arafat's nephew returns to West Bank with plan for post-war Gaza

Mandela's grandson returns to South Africa after deportation by Israel

How Nazi Germany erased Porsche’s Jewish co-founder, Adolf Rosenberger

OMG   

 A Palestinian prisoner waits to be released from Ketziot prison, southern Israel, October 1, 2007

Palestinian prisoner slated for release attacks female prison guard

Two North Korean women face being sent to labour camps for 'unsocialist' breast implants

In final interview, Jane Goodall said she wanted to send Netanyahu on a one-way trip to space

Consumerism   

Yoga.

Short yoga: Your calm place when everything else feels off

"It's the place where you can experience it all"

I Have Tested 20 Resume Writing Services - This Is The Best One

Astrology   

 Horoscope.

Horoscope for Wednesday,16/7: Taurus – A good day for connecting to inspiration and self-expression

Daily horoscope for Tuesday, 15/7: Sagittarius – Heightened sensitivity at home and in the family

Weekly horoscope: July 13–19, 2025

Sahar Daxa, a Government, Diplomacy and Strategy studies student and competitive athlete from Daliyat al-Carmel

Druze students at Reichman University lead efforts to save their Syrian brethren from crisis

In the face of war, Reichman University’s international students demonstrate remarkable resilience

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