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Smoke and destruction is seen in Gaza following Israeli strikes, March 18, 2025

IDF carries out widespread strikes in Gaza, terror officials killed

Hostage families: State of Israel has given up on hostages • PIJ spokesperson killed in strike • European, Middle East officials condemn strikes

Palestinians at the scene of an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, March 18, 2025

Attacks in Gaza and Yemen leave Iran in confusion over its next moves

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump seen over Gaza destruction (illustration)

Israel, with Trump's full backing, escalates pressure on Hamas with fresh strikes

Palestinian Hamas terrorists stand guard before the release of hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 15, 2025.

Hamas gathered forces during ceasefire for attempted invasion into Israel

Breaking News

Poland and Baltic nations plan to withdraw from landmine convention

US says Hamas solely to blame for resumption of Gaza hostilities

UN chief: Cyprus talks 'constructive', parties agree to meet again

Top News

Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike in Gaza city, March 18, 2025.

European and Middle East countries condemn Israeli strikes on Gaza

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Protests calling for release of hostages seen with destruction in Gaza (illustrative)

'A death sentence': Freed hostages reject Israeli return to war in Gaza

Demonstrators protest for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, outside Hakirya Base in Tel Aviv, March 17, 2025

State of Israel 'given up on hostages,' families tell 'Post'

Trump and Putin start phone call on ending Ukraine war

By REUTERS

sraeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, party heads and Ministers of his government attend a meeting on the planned state budget vote, in the Israeli parliament on May 23, 2023.

Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir agree on return to gov't after Israel ends Gaza ceasefire

By ELIAV BREUER

Israel at War

IDF reservists simulate operational and logistical preparedness in northern Israel, September 27, 2024.

Zionism exploited, strength running out: Reservist wives respond to return to fighting

Then-PIJ Spokesman, Abu Hamza, giving a press conference on International al-Quds Day, April 2024.

PIJ spokesman Abu Hamza killed in IAF strike in Gaza

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Members of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and mourners attend the funeral of Al-Qassam fighters who were killed during the war between Israel and Hamas in the Al-Shati camp, in Gaza City, February 28, 2025.

IAF strikes in Gaza Strip kill five senior Hamas officials

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike in Gaza May 2, 2023.

Operation Strength and Sword: IDF carries out overnight strikes on Hamas in Gaza Strip

By YONAH JEREMY BOB , SHIR PERETS , AMICHAI STEIN

(L-R) IDF strikes on the Gaza Strip, March17, 2025, and a US strike on Sana'a, Yemen, March 15, 2025.

Timing of Israel's Gaza strikes raise questions after US strikes on Yemen

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Hot Opinion

The UN has become a mouthpiece for terrorist apologists

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Boycotting Israel’s antisemitism conference won’t solve the problem

By ZVIKA KLEIN

The IDF needs soldiers but Israel is paying yeshivas to dodge the draft

By YAAKOV KATZ

From Haman to Khamenei: The Jewish people remember their enemies

By AMOTZ ASA-EL

From King Saul to today: The Gilboa’s role in Israel’s past and present

By LIAT COLLINS

Israel News

An illustrative image of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and former national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

'The moral step': Ben-Gvir, Smotrich praise IDF strikes on Gaza, return to fighting

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

FILE PHOTO: Britain's new foreign secretary, David Lammy, is pictured at a meeting in Beirut, Lebanon in January 12, 2024.

'Israel is breaching int'l law by cutting off Gaza aid' UK FM Lammy says

By MATHILDA HELLER

Constitution Committee finishes preparation of judicial reform bill

By ELIAV BREUER

POLICE CONFRONT haredi demonstrators blocking a road in Jerusalem, protesting against efforts to draft haredim into the military, earlier this month.

Sanctions against haredi draft dodgers must be enforced, attorney general warns

By ELIAV BREUER

Muslim women walk, as Israeli settlers carry Israeli flags next to a checkpoint near the Ibrahimi mosque, also known as the Cave of Patriarchs, on the day of the first Friday prayers of Ramadan, in Hebron's Old City, in the West Bank March 15, 2024.

Israel is ramping up annexation of West Bank, UN rights chief says

Analyses & Features

On display at the Bnei Menashe gallery.

Bnei Menashe gallery opens in Sderot, showcasing lost tribe’s history

By RAQUEL GUERTZENSTEIN FROHLICH

Hamas terrorists stand guard in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025

Hamas stalled talks for a ‘Ramadan ceasefire’ and provoked Israel

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

IDF adopts cautious tactics in Gaza as massive invasion loses momentum

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

NASA astronauts head home on SpaceX capsule after drawn-out space station stay

By REUTERS

Delegates at work at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The UN has become a mouthpiece for terrorist apologists

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Elegance & Excellence

50 Influential Jews

Ono Conversation Corner

Real Estate Listings

The Wiz website on a laptop arranged in New York, US, on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Google parent Alphabet Inc. is in talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter.

Alphabet to buy Wiz for $32 billion in its biggest deal to boost cloud security

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

On the right, Neta Lempert, CEO of Enigmatos. On the left, Ron Glav, Bezek International

Bezeq International, Enigmatos join forces to secure commercial vehicle fleets

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Yitzhak Kesselman

Chabad rabbi becomes most senior haredi engineer at Microsoft

By MATHILDA HELLER

The Jerusalem Post’s Women Leaders Summit 2025

Leading Israel’s Future: The Jerusalem Post’s Women Leaders Summit 2025

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Market Data

Antisemitism / BDS

Wikipedia editor clique adding anti-Israel, antisemitic bias to pages

By MICHAEL STARR

Britain's chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

UK Chief Rabbi Mirvis pulls out from Israel's conference on combating antisemitism

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Protestors take part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Berlin, April 6, 2024.

German Jewish students have felt increasingly unsafe on campus since October 7

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Marine Le Pen, President of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party parliamentary group. Paris, France, June 2, 2024.

Boycotting Israel’s antisemitism conference won’t solve the problem

The Tree of Life synagogue at the intersection of Shady and Wilkins avenues, in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, on Oct. 30, 2018.

Pennsylvania man caught with child porn, antisemitic mass attack plans

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Middle East

Hamas terrorists seen in Gaza City, February 28, 2025

Senior Hamas official says Israel ended ceasefire agreement, hostage fate unknown

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , REUTERS

Israeli soldiers operating in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on November 28, 2024.

IDF won't strike Hamas where hostages are being held, sources confirm

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Behind Netanyahu-Bar feud: Gaza, West Bank security, and Qatargate

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

A Yemen's Houthi supporter stands on a body weighting machine covered by flags of US, UK, and ISrael and withe pictures depicting U.S. Presidents Donald Trump (L), Jue Biden (C), and the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu (R) to be stepped over in a protest of the aerial attacks launched by fighter jet

Yemen's Houthis won't 'dial down' under US pressure or Iranian appeals

Smoke rises from a fire following an Israeli air strike in Hodeidah, Yemen in this handout photo released on July 20, 2024.

US targets Houthi sites in Sana'a for third straight day of attacks

World News

FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump holds rally at the Greensboro Complex in Greensboro, North Carolina.

US announces leadership for new Oct. 7 task force

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

President John F. Kennedy signs a proclamation for the interdiction of the delivery of offensive weapons to Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis, at the White House in Washington in this handout photograph taken on October 23, 1962

Around 80,000 pages of JFK files will be released on Tuesday, Trump says

US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron (not pictured) attend a press conference at the White House in Washington, DC, US, February 24, 2025.

Trump dismisses Biden's January 6 pardons as 'void' and 'vacant'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israeli minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli speaks during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on June 25, 2024.

The illusion of alliances: Amichai Chikli is wrong to put faith in Europe's far Right

By DR. STÉPHANIE SHARE

US-Präsident Donald Trump spricht zu Reportern an Bord der Air Force One vor der Ankunft auf der Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, USA, 27. Januar 2025.

Cornell student sues Trump administration over campus deportations

By PHILISSA CRAMER/JTA

Environment & Climate Change

Debris lies around damaged houses the morning after a tornado touched down in Florissant, Missouri, U.S. March 15, 2025.

US death toll from extreme weather over the weekend rises to 36

an illustration of a shark being eaten by an even larger shark Scientists have long assumed megalodons looked like big great white sharks, but new research suggests this is not the case

Megalodon shark may have reached 80 feet, new study finds

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The Italia Valeriana flower is expected to grow in areas including Mount Carmel, Mount Gilboa, the Galilee, and the Jerusalem Hills.

During the spring, the flower Italia Valeriana to grow in Mount Carmel, Galilee, Jerusalem Hills

Israel Police seize lion cub from residence in Kfar Kassem, March 15, 2025.

Police seize ninth monkey, fourth lion cub, as part of crackdown on illegal wildlife

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A crane that was found injured in the Galilee was released back into the wild.

Rescued crane returns to the wild just in time for migration

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

JPost Spotlight

Calev Ben-David (R) speaks to Elliot Jager (L) in the Jerusalem Post podcast studio.

Trump often does the 'right thing but in the wrong way,' Elliot Jager to Calev Ben-David

Donald Trump's tendency to do the right thing "but often in the wrong way" results in undercutting the value of what he's trying to do, Elliot Jager explained on the Jerusalem Syndrome podcast.

KFAR MACCABIAH HOTEL has swimming pools, a fitness club, a spa and tennis courts.

Nonprofits should be at the front line of forming a functioning society

When the political space is frequently divided, and at times even toxic and dysfunctional, nonprofits become even more integral to a functioning society.

People visit the burial site of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, on the outskirts of Beirut

Brown U. assistant prof. deported, had photos 'sympathetic' to Hezbollah on phone, US says

Rasha Alawieh was removed after arriving at Boston airport on Thursday, with the Department of Justice noting that Hezbollah-related photos were on their device.

L-R: Bruce Pearl, Jon Scheyer, Lindsay Gottlieb and Todd Golden.

Jewish coaches lead 4 of 8 top seeds in the NCAA’s March Madness tournaments

Jewish coaches take center stage in March Madness, leading three of the four No. 1 seeds in the men's tournament and a top seed in the women's bracket.

Israel Real Estate

A seating area in Jerusalem's Givat Massuah neighborhood.

Givat Massuah: Jerusalem’s quiet, scenic neighborhood

By ALEX WINSTON

Tower Crane

The market today is hot. Many investors want in, maybe too many

By WALLA/REALESTATE

A young couple is debating whether to buy an investment property

Million-dollar question: Is now the time to buy an investment apartment?

By OFER PETERSBURG

Sample Apartment: Rent 2 Stay Long-Term Rental Project in Yavne

Surprising city: 80+ long-term rental contracts signed quickly

By OFER PETERSBURG

MY ADERET: Everything you need just a short walk away.

Carmei Gat: A growing hub with exceptional potential

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Christian World

American Jews and their supporters participate in the March for Israel in Washington, DC, earlier this month.

Trauma is universal, persecution of the Jews is inexcusable

Israel is not a political issue; Israel is a Biblical issue - because this is God's nation, and the Jewish people are His people.

Smoke rises while members of the Syrian forces ride on a vehicle as they battle against a nascent insurgency by fighters from ousted leader Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, in Latakia, Syria, on March 7, 2025.

Syria’s Christians fear for future after deadly sectarian violence

Recent sectarian violence in Syria’s coastal region deepened fears among the shrinking Christian minority about their future and prompting church leaders to urge national reconciliation.

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, showing plans to continue on, starts new process for Catholic reforms

Pope Francis approved a new three-year Vatican reform plan, pushing forward with change despite his ongoing health battle.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, 1948-2020.

Former Archbishop addresses 'resurgence of antisemitism' in speech to honor Rabbi Sacks

“The desperate plight of the hostages is a bitterly vivid symbol of the way that so many lives – Jewish and non-Jewish – are held hostage by a climate of terror,” he said.

Health & Wellness

A graph comparing waiting times to see a consultant with Israel's various HMOs.

Four-fifths of Israelis attributed their mental distress to Israel-Hamas War

By DR. ITAY GAL

DLA Piper volunteers helping bring holiday joy during Purim.

DLA Piper holds sessions supporting disabled children, war veterans in hospitals during Purim

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A gun with bullets on table

Medically discharged combat soldiers now eligible for firearm licenses

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Ben-Gurion University campus in Beersheba, southern Israel. May 28, 2023.

Children with autism less likely to suffer severe injuries than those with ADHD - BGU

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

PROF. ASSAF ZINGER’S team at work.

Technion close to develop oral consumption of medications to tackle COVID, flu, instead of vaccines

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

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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.

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

MDA’s Joint National Command Center on October 7

'The country was burning, and I was watching it happen'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Conferences

The Jerusalem Post’s Women Leaders Summit 2025

Leading Israel’s Future: The Jerusalem Post’s Women Leaders Summit 2025

The Maariv and Walla 2025 Economic Conference

Senior Government and Business Leaders to attend Maariv-Walla Economic Conference

Archaeology

Neanderthal communities in prehistoric Europe. How were they linked? (Illustrative)

130,000-year-old clues from Israel’s Tinshemet Cave point to shared Homo behaviors

By JOANIE MARGULIES

How King Tutankhamun's era saw the fading of the pyramids' lustrous cladding.

How King Tutankhamun's era saw the fading of the pyramids' lustrous cladding

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Aliyah

Former US clothing manufacturer Mordechai Saxon is seen snorkling in Eilat with wife, Shulammis, after his aliyah.

Retired US clothing exec. thrives in Israel as martial artist, scuba diver, matchmaker, and more

By ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

WITH HIS wife, Peri.

Alex and Peri Sinclair: A Masorti power couple like no other

By LEAH HAKIMIAN

Diaspora

A PROTEST takes place following the arrest by US immigration agents of Mahmoud Khalil, at Columbia University, in New York City.

Defending the rights of Mahmoud Khalil, even when we disagree with him

By SHERWIN POMERANTZ

The Jewish cemetery at Kosice in Slovakia, a country once home to a thriving Jewish community

Jewish cemetery in Slovakia vandalized with swastikas

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Judaism

American soldiers reading Megillat Esther in the vacation home of Goebbels.jpg

Purim’s poetic justice: The timeless triumph of good over evil

By SIVAN RAHAV MEIR

Jewish Soldiers Leave the Battlefield to Celebrate Purim in Kyiv

From the Frontlines to the Megillah: Jewish soldiers celebrate Purim in Kyiv

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Food

ROASTED CHESTNUTS for sale on London’s Westminster Bridge.

The chocolates and snacks that immigrants to Israel miss from home

Raif Rashed, an Israeli Druze and the owner of Taboonia, wraps up a pita with labneh. (Jackie Hajdenberg)

Taboonia, a new Israeli Druze restaurant in NYC, is run by a Nova music festival survivor

By JACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA

Culture

Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham pose with the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film for "No Other Land" in the Oscars photo room at the 97th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 2, 2025

Miami Beach mayor moves to evict theater operator for showing Oscar-winning ‘No Other Land’

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA

Artwork by Joseph Hirsch.

Israel Museum honors late Jerusalem artist Joseph Hirsch

Travel

CHIANG RAI’S stunning Wat Rong Khun – the White Temple.

Exploring the majestic Buddhist temples and heritage sites in northern Thailand

By MOTTI VERSES

An El Al flight takes off at the Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, August 25, 2024.

El Al almost quintuples profit

By NETANEL ARIEL/GLOBES/TNS

Podcasts

Pastor Luke Moon (left) and Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Zvika Klein (right) in the Jerusalem Post Podcast Studio, March 6, 2025.

Evangelical Pastor to 'Post': Christians do not show up enough for Israel

Sarah Ben-Nun is seen interviewing Dr. Menahem Merhavy of Hebrew University of Jerusalem on The Jerusalem Post Podcast.

From ancient pagans to the Islamic Republic: The shaping of Iranian civilization

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

US Politics

Democratic senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island cheer as then-US president Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address last year. The Democratic Party must reject the extremist factions that have hijacked its platform, the writer maintains.

Failure to adjust will shatter the Democrats credibility for years to come

By GREGORY LYAKHOV

US President Donald Trump seen over an Iranian flag (illustrative)

US to hold Iran responsible for further Houthi attacks, Trump says

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

History

NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV (R) and Leonid Brezhnev wave from Lenin’s Tomb in Moscow after announcing that Khrushchev was resigning as first secretary of the Communist Party and Brezhnev was taking over the role, 1964.

The enigma of Nikita Khrushchev: Unravelling the Soviet leader's views on Israel, Zionism

By ALEX WINSTON

'Ahasuerus and Haman at the Feast of Esther' by Rembrandt, 1660, at Moscow's Pushkin Museum

This week in Jewish history: Purim story, mass suicide, killing of York's Jews

By STEVEN DRUCKER

Science

Whispering Woman Illustration.

Smooth talker: Hebrew University study gives insight into brain's role in linguistic interaction

By ARIELA OHRENSTEIN

ELAD INBAR with one of his security robots. ‘Robots are not here to take away jobs. They are here to make jobs more meaningful and revolutionize the way we work, helping business owners operate more profitably.’

The Israeli who is looking to build the robots of the future

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

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

Israel police rescued another monkey in a Bedouin village.

Monkey rescued in Negev brings total to 12 as police continue wildlife crackdown

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

View of the Palestinian suspect arrested by police. March 17, 2025.

Police arrest Palestinian who disguised himself as Jewish, broke into West Bank homes

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