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Sharaa's general intelligence behind attack on IDF in Syria's south, Druze in east

Those who attacked the IDF overnight were reportedly tied to the Syrian regime’s general intelligence and were the same group who organized attacks against Druze in Khader.

'He was our greatest enemy': Inside the swift IAF operation that killed Hezbollah's military chief

A person holds up an image of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa during a protest in support of Syrian territorial unity and against division, in Damascus, Syria, November 28, 2025.

Hezbollah has the 'right to respond,' terror group's secretary-general says after Beirut strike

BREAKING

"We have the right to respond, and we will determine the timing," Qassem claimed. "The assassination of Tabatabai was a blatant act of aggression."

Hezbollah supporters hold images of late former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and current leader Naim Qassem at a ceremony held by Hezbollah to commemorate the first anniversary of Hassan Nasrallah's killing by Israel, on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon, September 27, 2025.

Sheikh Tarif meets with a delegation from The Jerusalem Post to discuss the crisis in Syria.

'We need America': Head of Israel's Druze community appeals to Trump as Syrian brethren massacred

The Jerusalem Post traveled to the home of Israel's Druze leader, Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, where hundreds of former Druze IDF soldiers have mobilized for Syrian Druze after months of genocide

EXCLUSIVE

FEATURE

Israel's other front: Inside the IDF's battle to win world's toughest information war

Marwan Al-Hams, a senior Gaza Health Ministry official, speaks at his office in Gaza, in this screen grab taken from a video shot on October 21, 2024.

Daughter of formerly detained Hamas official claims Israel-backed militia abducted her

REPORT

Witkoff, Kushner to offer Ukrainian land to Putin in Moscow meeting

EXCLUSIVE

Can new MAG Itay Offir save the IDF's legal corps - and shield Israel from ICC war crime threat?

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via a video link in Moscow, Russia November 14, 2025

Russia threatens full ban on WhatsApp

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg (L), Italian United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, and Brazilian activist Thiago Avila chant slogans as they arrive on a boat during a anti-Israel demonstration against Italy's government, in Genoa on November 28, 2025

Greta Thunberg, Francesca Albanese attend transport-disrupting Israel protests in Italy

Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak looks on, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine January 22, 2024.

Ukrainian chief of staff Andriy Yermak resigns after anti-corruption police search home

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting with Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal, Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council Rustem Umerov, and other officials, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 7, 2025.

Washington’s ‘breakthrough’ on Ukraine exposes deep fault lines in Kyiv and Europe

ANALYSIS

'It just makes perfect sense': Ira Green on Beersheba, sustainability, and World Zionist Village

WATCH

WATCH NOW: JPost’s Corinne Baum in conversation with Ira Green about rebuilding Zionist dialogue and shaping a global educational hub.

Host Corinne Baum speaks to Ira Green, World Zionist Village CEO

Inside the IDF’s female field intelligence unit spying deep inside Syria

EXCLUSIVE

Commander hints that the IDF is not leaving Syria any time soon, despite US-sponsored talks

Israel, US 'running out of patience' on Hezbollah disarming, officials warn

ISRAELI/SYRIAN border fence near IDF Position 720 at the Israel-Syria-Jordan tri-border.

OPINION

How AI reshaped the battle for consciousness in Israel and the Gaza battlefield

ByDAVID BEN-BASAT

IDF troops of the 55th Brigade operate in Beit Jen, southern Syria. November 28, 2025.

IDF kills, arrests Jaama Islamiya terrorists in southern Syria, six reservists wounded

WATCH

Weapons confiscated in IDF raids on the West Bank over the past week.

Tackling West Bank terror: IDF arrests more than 40 suspects, seizes weapons in a week of raids

WATCH

Israeli Air Force hero Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Dan Tolkowsky passes away at 104

Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Dan Tolkowsky will be laid to rest, with a full military ceremony, on Monday at 2:30 PM at the Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery in Tel Aviv.

IDF, police detain 13 Israelis who crossed into Syrian territory from Golan Heights

FEATURE

AI will transform higher education and employment - is Israel ready?

THE AI revolution is driven by the ability to perform human-level tasks – reshaping industries.

FRONTLINES

In Israel's clash of politicians and generals, IDF holds the upper hand over government

DEFENSE MINISTER Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir feuded this week in a bruising confrontation that spilled into the open, dominated headlines, and led to public questions about whether the defense establishment is losing its focus, says the writer.

'Endangers future of the state': Hanegbi slams proposed haredi conscription law

Spotlight

THEN-‘INTERNATIONAL Jerusalem Post’ editor Liat Collins holds a bound volume open at the first edition of the paper, with a letter from David Ben-Gurion in the center, on the occasion of its 60th anniversary in September 2019.

International Jerusalem Post publishes final issue: Memories, and the old and new world

FRONTLINES

Soccer Football - World Cup - Asian Qualifiers - Group A - Iran v North Korea - Azadi Stadium, Tehran, Iran - June 10, 2025

Iran to boycott World Cup draw over US visa issues

Edible dreidels and pull-apart sufganiyot: Must try recipes for the Hanukkah season

An illustrative image of a nest and egg in human hands.

Parashat Vayetze: When a nation forgets its source

New field hospital established in the Gaza Strip, COGAT announces

The hospital is currently able to offer 150 beds to those in need and is the 15th field hospital established in coordination with the international community since the start of the war.

Inward fury: How Iran has changed domestic oppression after Israel-Iran war

New field hospital treating Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

UN says Israeli forces' killing of two wanted West Bank Palestinians looks like 'summary execution'

IDF troops operate behind Yellow Line in southern Gaza, November 20, 2025.

IDF soldier moderately wounded during operations in Gaza

National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS)

US asks Lebanon to return undetonated GBU-39 bomb used by IAF, fearing it could reach Russia, China

REPORT

Majority of US Jews think Mamdani is antisemitic, anti-Zionist, poll finds

A new survey reported widespread concern over the NYC mayor-elect, alongside strong support for Zionism 50 years after the UN “Zionism is racism” resolution.

Who are the anti-Israel activists on key committees of Mamdani's transition team?

EXPLAINER

Left-wing populist figures like Zohran Mamdani use their platforms with fierce and relentless hostility toward Israel.

‘Jews, we know what you did’: Jewish teens chased in antisemitic attack in Uruguay

People with Uruguayan and Israeli flags attend a rally in support of Israel, in Montevideo on October 11, 2023.

British pro-Israel org will not counter-protest pro-Palestinian march for first time

A DEMONSTRATION calling for stronger UK government action against antisemitism takes place in London last month. ‘More than 1,500 antisemitic incidents in the first half of 2025 – almost certainly an undercount, as many people no longer report,’ says the writer.

Jewish group urges halt to ‘Nakba’ exhibit at Canadian Museum of Human Rights

Why is a Turkish terror-linked ‘charity’ operating freely in Gaza?

OPINION

The IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, a Turkish organization outlawed in Israel due to its ties to Hamas, has for years funneled funds and equipment to Hamas’ military wing.

Narrative manipulation: UN Solidarity Day ignores Jewish refugees expelled from Arab countries

OPINION

People take part in a rally in support of Palestinians and to condemn Israeli forces' interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla vessels aiming to reach Gaza and break Israel's naval blockade, in Istanbul, Turkey, October 5, 2025.

WATCH

Antisemitic assassination conspiracy, Muslim Brotherhood, and regional flare-ups

Episode three of The Deep Dive discusses mass conspiracy on X, Trump desginating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, and whether Israel is going back to war in the North.

OPINION

Middle Israel: Israel Katz is a strategic liability Israel cannot afford

Defence Minister Israel Katz inspects a missile at the Tel Nof Air Force base in March.

ByAMOTZ ASA-EL

OPINION

Ireland’s new president is a troubling ally of Hamas and a danger for Israel

ByASHER MAOZ

From drones to robot dogs, Israeli startups are reshaping emergency response

At Tel Aviv’s UVID conference, startups showed off hydrogen-powered cargo drones and agile robot dogs that map dangerous spaces and aid rescue missions

Israel's top 30 under 30 in defense-tech

Israeli, German manufacturers to supply hundreds of suicide drones to NATO

Elbit's Hermes drones located dozens of concealed Iranian ballistic missile launchers

A missile launched from Iran towards Israel is seen from Jerusalem, June 19, 2025.

IAI chief: ‘The war of the future is already here’ as drones and AI reshape combat

Trump says US just ordered a lot more B-2 bombers

US President Donald Trump claims the B-2 bombers "totally obliterated the nuclear potential" of Iran.

Three Chinese citizens killed in Tajikistan by grenade-carrying drone from Afghanistan

A B-2 Spirit proceeds to an undisclosed location after flying a mission over Iraq, March 27, 2003.

UK’s Palestine Action ban could lead to Sally Rooney's books being removed from shelves

Author Sally Rooney poses for a photograph ahead of the announcement of the winner of the Costa Book Awards 2018 in London, Britain, January 29, 2019

Steinmeier becomes first German head of state to visit Guernica since 1937 Nazi bombing

Spain's King Felipe welcomes German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier during a ceremony at the Royal Palace, in Madrid, Spain, November 26, 2025.

Trump vows to 'permanently pause' migration from 'Third World Countries' after DC attack

President Donald Trump participates in a call with U.S. service members from his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Thanksgiving Day on November 27, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida.

In Collaboration

At The Jewish Agency Board Meeting, ‘we act to impact’ becomes a blueprint for Israel’s recovery

L to R: Jewish Agency Leadership: Mark Wilf, Chairman of the Board of Governors Maj. Gen. (res.) Doron Almog, Chairman of the Executive; Bruce Sholk, Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee, and Yehuda Setton, CEO and Director General.

Secure your future in Israel with a home of your own

Hashomer Hachadash Youth’s November Conference Opens with Volunteer Work

Hashomer HaChadash conference began with volunteer work at an agricultural farm

Your Taxes: The National Insurance obligations for Israelis overseas

OPINION

Relocating abroad? Israel’s National Insurance rules can follow you, with monthly payments and tax rules depending on your job and residency.

Wizz Air steps back from Israel hub, citing poor economics and Ben Gurion slot gaps

View of the National Insurance Institute offices in Jerusalem. January 23, 2017.

OPINION

Your Investments: This Black Friday, we should focus on giving

PEOPLE STAND in line outside a clothing shop advertising Black Friday sales in Tel Aviv, in 2020.

ByAARON KATSMAN

'Cafe Ba'Hazor': MiluimTech signs up 1,000 reservists in 48 hours, linking them with tech leaders

MiluimTech connects IDF reservists with senior tech leaders.

REPORT

Feel unsafe in New York? Start looking for a home in Israel

Demonstrators attend a pro-Palestinian protest on the day of the two-year anniversary of the attack on Israel by Hamas, in New York City, US, October 7, 2025.

Gov't approves plan to bring India's remaining 'lost tribe' Bnei Menashe back to Israel

Newly arrived Jewish immigrants from Manipur in India, members of the 'Bnei Menashe' community arrive to the Ben Gurion international airport on March 22, 2018. The 'Bnei Menashe' community belongs to one of the 10 'lost tribes' of Israel exiled by an Assyrian empire 27 centuries ago.

Knesset committee addresses aliyah issues as Israel anticipates postwar immigration surge

Aliyah and Integration Minister Ofir Sofer during a special session of the Knesset’s Aliyah and Immigration Committee on Monday.

Building tomorrow, today: Jerusalem Post Washington Conference heads to Capitol Hill

Jerusalem Post Miami Conference returns, shaping the future together

Past Event - The Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference - where diplomacy meets the future

Conference

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

Building tomorrow, today: Jerusalem Post Washington Conference heads to Capitol Hill

'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

Candace Owens speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Detroit, Michigan, June, 14, 2024; illustrative.

Candace Owens assassination accusation, Hezbollah commander strike - November 23, 2025

The future of Israel's drone warfare: Alon Unger on dominance and defense

Chabad Hospitality in the cloud forest of Boquete, Panama

US Politics

PALESTINIAN CHILDREN attend school on February 25, 2025, in Gaza City. Jewish students in the US are being bullied at record levels, with the positioning of Zionism as an epithet, the writer explains.

A house committee is investigating allegations of antisemitism in Philadelphia schools

White House denies Trump weighing ouster of FBI Director Kash Patel

Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign from Congress amid clashes with Trump over Israel, Epstein

Diaspora

Fire damages historic Sadigura synagogue in Chernivtsi, suspect mentally unstable

Herzl’s city, their future: Jewish teens renewed Zionist covenant in Budapest

'It just makes perfect sense': Ira Green on Beersheba, sustainability, and World Zionist Village

Judaism

Close-up of letter cubes spelling "Words Have Power" (illustrative)

Parashat Vayetze: 'Wise people, be careful with your words’

Shabbat candle lighting times for Israel and US

This Thanksgiving, our Jewish gratitude begins with acknowledging the land beneath our feet

Christian World

PASAGES STUDENTS attending last week's rally in Washington to show their support for Israel

Over 1,000 people, the largest-ever US evangelical delegation set to visit Israel, FOZ says

Pope Leo to meet Christian leaders in trip across Middle East in bid for unity

Erdogan praises pope's 'astute stance' on Palestinian issue

Food

FROM TOP to bottom: The Almera Hotel in Bat Yam.

The Almera, a nice surprise hotel in Bat Yam

Inside Moshe Basson’s kitchen: Biblical cuisine comes to life at Jerusalem's Eucalyptus

Thanksgiving: Where are the cranberries?

Archaeology

Ancient Spanish skull reveals Roman campaign of intimidation, adds to sparse record of war

Are mummies responsible for NJ Devils' string of injuries? Archaeologists, players weigh in

Two pharaohs in one tomb? Shosenq III's grave may contain body of royal predecessor

Science

Artificial Intelligence words are seen in this illustration taken March 31, 2023

AI more likely to claim consciousness when blocked from lying, study finds

Endangered elephant population count recieves boost from dung DNA study

NASA releases images of comet 3I/ATLAS, rejects alien spacecraft 'rumors'

Culture

MAKING HIS first national team appearance since 2022, Tamir Blatt reenters the fold at a pivotal moment as Israel begins its push toward the 2027 World Cup.

Israel opens World Cup qualifying campaign with tough tests vs. Germany, Croatia

Israel's national curling team delivers best-ever Deaflympics showing in Tokyo

Israel ParaSport Center marks 65 years with new Luski Aquatic Center

History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Holocaust museums are 'false propaganda' used to blackmail world, AMP director claims

Drafts of Ben-Gurion's 'Revolution of the Spirit' speech unveiled in honor of first PM's death

Titanic tragedy of prominent Jewish couple resurfaces in record auction

OMG

Costumed humans pretending to be robots at an Iranian tech expo in November.

Sharaa's general intelligence behind attack on IDF in Syria's south, Druze in east

'He was our greatest enemy': Inside the swift IAF operation that killed Hezbollah's military chief

Hezbollah has the 'right to respond,' terror group's secretary-general says after Beirut strike

'We need America': Head of Israel's Druze community appeals to Trump as Syrian brethren massacred

Israel's other front: Inside the IDF's battle to win world's toughest information war

Daughter of formerly detained Hamas official claims Israel-backed militia abducted her

Witkoff, Kushner to offer Ukrainian land to Putin in Moscow meeting

Can new MAG Itay Offir save the IDF's legal corps - and shield Israel from ICC war crime threat?

Russia threatens full ban on WhatsApp

Greta Thunberg, Francesca Albanese attend transport-disrupting Israel protests in Italy

Ukrainian chief of staff Andriy Yermak resigns after anti-corruption police search home

Washington’s ‘breakthrough’ on Ukraine exposes deep fault lines in Kyiv and Europe

'It just makes perfect sense': Ira Green on Beersheba, sustainability, and World Zionist Village

Inside the IDF’s female field intelligence unit spying deep inside Syria

Israel, US 'running out of patience' on Hezbollah disarming, officials warn

How AI reshaped the battle for consciousness in Israel and the Gaza battlefield

IDF kills, arrests Jaama Islamiya terrorists in southern Syria, six reservists wounded

Tackling West Bank terror: IDF arrests more than 40 suspects, seizes weapons in a week of raids

Israeli Air Force hero Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Dan Tolkowsky passes away at 104

IDF, police detain 13 Israelis who crossed into Syrian territory from Golan Heights

AI will transform higher education and employment - is Israel ready?

In Israel's clash of politicians and generals, IDF holds the upper hand over government

'Endangers future of the state': Hanegbi slams proposed haredi conscription law

Spotlight

International Jerusalem Post publishes final issue: Memories, and the old and new world

Iran to boycott World Cup draw over US visa issues

Edible dreidels and pull-apart sufganiyot: Must try recipes for the Hanukkah season

Parashat Vayetze: When a nation forgets its source

New field hospital established in the Gaza Strip, COGAT announces

Inward fury: How Iran has changed domestic oppression after Israel-Iran war

UN says Israeli forces' killing of two wanted West Bank Palestinians looks like 'summary execution'

IDF soldier moderately wounded during operations in Gaza

US asks Lebanon to return undetonated GBU-39 bomb used by IAF, fearing it could reach Russia, China

Majority of US Jews think Mamdani is antisemitic, anti-Zionist, poll finds

Who are the anti-Israel activists on key committees of Mamdani's transition team?

‘Jews, we know what you did’: Jewish teens chased in antisemitic attack in Uruguay

British pro-Israel org will not counter-protest pro-Palestinian march for first time

Jewish group urges halt to ‘Nakba’ exhibit at Canadian Museum of Human Rights

Why is a Turkish terror-linked ‘charity’ operating freely in Gaza?

Narrative manipulation: UN Solidarity Day ignores Jewish refugees expelled from Arab countries

Antisemitic assassination conspiracy, Muslim Brotherhood, and regional flare-ups

Middle Israel: Israel Katz is a strategic liability Israel cannot afford

Ireland’s new president is a troubling ally of Hamas and a danger for Israel

From drones to robot dogs, Israeli startups are reshaping emergency response

Israel's top 30 under 30 in defense-tech

Israeli, German manufacturers to supply hundreds of suicide drones to NATO

Elbit's Hermes drones located dozens of concealed Iranian ballistic missile launchers

IAI chief: ‘The war of the future is already here’ as drones and AI reshape combat

Trump says US just ordered a lot more B-2 bombers

Three Chinese citizens killed in Tajikistan by grenade-carrying drone from Afghanistan

UK’s Palestine Action ban could lead to Sally Rooney's books being removed from shelves

Steinmeier becomes first German head of state to visit Guernica since 1937 Nazi bombing

Trump vows to 'permanently pause' migration from 'Third World Countries' after DC attack

In Collaboration

At The Jewish Agency Board Meeting, ‘we act to impact’ becomes a blueprint for Israel’s recovery

Secure your future in Israel with a home of your own

Hashomer Hachadash Youth’s November Conference Opens with Volunteer Work

Your Taxes: The National Insurance obligations for Israelis overseas

Wizz Air steps back from Israel hub, citing poor economics and Ben Gurion slot gaps

Your Investments: This Black Friday, we should focus on giving

'Cafe Ba'Hazor': MiluimTech signs up 1,000 reservists in 48 hours, linking them with tech leaders

'It will not happen': Regev opposes potential public transport price hikes - KAN News

Israel wasted 2.6 million tons of food in 2024, worth $7.2 billion

Australia PM says formal deal reached for Turkey to host COP31 climate summit

Rare prehistoric Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore in South Carolina

Largest Israeli humanitarian mission since October 7 heads to Jamaica

US companies hold the line at climate talks despite Trump

New drug combo nearly doubles survival for BRAF-mutated lung cancer patients, trial shows

Israeli MedTech draws record interest at MEDICA 2025 in Germany

Ten-year-old girl dies from flu as cases surge in central Israel

Invisible costs of trauma and post-trauma: The economic plight Israel faces

Israeli doctors use patients' own cells to attack blood cancer cells in medical breakthrough

Preparing for the worst case scenario: Israeli gov't holds wargame for emergency aliyah

A comical series of bureaucratic frustration: Effi Frohwein's aliyah story

Feel unsafe in New York? Start looking for a home in Israel

Gov't approves plan to bring India's remaining 'lost tribe' Bnei Menashe back to Israel

Knesset committee addresses aliyah issues as Israel anticipates postwar immigration surge

Bubble alert: The report that proves housing prices around the world are out of control

Entrepreneurs become suspects, the state forgets they are the ones building it

Construction time lengthens, rent rises, and young people pay the price