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'Invade Iran or accept talks,' ex-Israel Air Force chief warns

Former IAF commander Eitan Ben Eliyahu said Operation Rising Lion delayed Iran’s nuclear program but did not destroy it, warning Tehran is learning for the next round.

Israel's next Mossad chief: Who are you, Roman Gofman?

An Israeli Air Force plane utilized in the October 2024 strike against Iranian military infrastructure.

Netanyahu taps Military Secretary Roman Gofman as next Mossad chief

Gofman is set to replace the current Mossad chief, David Barnea, in June of next year.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shaking hands with Maj.-Gen.Roman Gofman.

Former hostage, Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, attends an event at the Nova festival massacre site with a US delegation on December 3, 2025 in Re'eim, Israel.

'I’ll give you hell back': Ex-hostage Edan Alexander vows payback on Hamas 'demons'

"I gathered knowledge over there. I know the language, I know the culture, I know a lot about these demons. I have to use all of that and come back. And now I’m here in uniform,” said Edan Alexander.

Gantz calls to abolish 12th grade, restructure system in education reform proposal

Hezbollah supporters hold images of late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and Palestinian and other flags at a ceremony held by Hezbollah to commemorate the first anniversary of Nasrallah's killing by Israel, on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon

Iraq backtracks on freezing Iran-backed groups’ funds, plans to revise terror list

Netanyahu will visit New York City despite Mamdani's threat to arrest him, PM vows

ANALYSIS

Iran-backed drone strikes on US oil sites push Iraq closer to Washington over Tehran

Elon Musk calls Jewish people 'peak white' in viral X post about extinction of white people

US senator pushes ban on dual citizenship, creating uncertainty for Israeli-Americans, olim

Penultimate hostage returns: Sudthisak Rinthalak identified as deceased captive returned to Israel

Thai hostage Sudthisak Rinthalak, November 5, 2025.

Who was slain Gaza hostage Sudthisak Rinthalak?

EXPLAINER

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

In Collab

Community representatives met with relatives of hostages and with bereaved families, toured war-affected areas, and discussed plans to increase aliyah while confronting antisemitism.

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.

Following the multi-front war, Israel should reduce US dependency and seek alliances in Asia

OPINION

Israel’s recovery from the October 7 Hamas attack reshaped the Middle East battlefield. Yet the war exposed a deeper challenge: growing strains in its relationship with the United States

Hamas infiltrated, manipulated aid NGOs, captured Gaza documents reveal

REPORT

A woman walks past a street lined with Taiwanese flags, in Kinmen, Taiwan, October 19, 2025.

Israel, Lebanon hold first senior-level talks in decades as US pushes engagement

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert testifies during a hearing of the civil investigative committee on the October 7 massacre, in Tel Aviv, August 8, 2024

Canadian group calls for Olmert, Livni arrest over alleged war crimes

US President Donald Trump speaks during an announcement of new fuel economy standards, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, US, December 3, 2025.

Phase two of Gaza peace plan is 'going to happen pretty soon,' Trump says

'Watershed moment': Eurovision faces boycott threat as EBU meets on Israel’s participation in 2026

Public broadcasters from Slovenia, Ireland, Spain, and the Netherlands are threatening to boycott the May 2026 event, to be hosted by Austria, if Israel is allowed to compete.

Nearly quarter of Israeli public would consider moving overseas, IDI survey reveals

POLL

Yuval Raphael representing Israel walks on stage during the Grand Final of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest Opening Ceremony at St. Jakobshalle on May 17, 2025 in Basel, Switzerland.

Israel races to cut Trump tariffs on billions in exports to US

A protester with the Main Street Alliance holds a sign outside the U.S. Supreme Court, as its justices are set to hear oral arguments on U.S. President Donald Trump's bid to preserve sweeping tariffs after lower courts ruled that Trump overstepped his authority, in Washington, DC, US, November 5

INTERVIEW

'The voice of the industry': Inside IATI’s fight for continuity and growth in Israel’s tech sector

An Israeli business employee after leaving her job; illustrative.

Knesset hears harrowing new testimony of alleged ritual sexual abuse; survivors demand action

Spotlight

THE ANNOUNCEMENT by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to suspend arms deliveries to Israel has unleashed quite a storm at home, says the writer.

Germany knows that erasing Israel from various platforms does nothing for peace

OPINION

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei seen on the backdrop of the pre-revolution flag of Iran (illustrative)

'A woman is like a flower': Khamenei defends Iran’s treatment of women as critics cite Mahsa Amini

Megyn Kelly speaks during a rally for US President-elect Donald Trump, the day before he is scheduled to be inaugurated for a second term, in Washington, US, January 19, 2025.

The primetime princess's fall from grace

Photo of Lammers in black Allgemeine-SS uniform 1938

Hugo Boss became wealthy off SS uniform production, study finds

Reservists Party accuses Likud of pressuring registrar to block its registration

The party, led by former communications minister Yoaz Hendel, is made up largely of IDF reservists. Registered back in September, its final approval has been delayed for more than a month.

Saudi Arabia sends $90 million to rescue Palestinian Authority from financial collapse

Yoaz Hendel, head of the Reservists’ Party, speaks during the party’s launch event ahead of the 2026 general elections, at Kibbutz Ma'ale HaHamisha near Jerusalem, November 19, 2025.

Israel sends diplomats to Lebanon for ceasefire body meeting for first time

Russian-Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was held hostage by Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq, returns to Israel, September 11, 2025.

Released hostage Elizabeth Tsurkov: ‘Nothing prepares you for horror’ of torture in captivity

Iranian women perform a prayer for rainfall at the Saleh Shrine in Tehran on November 14, 2025, as the country suffers from severe water shortages. Authorities in Tehran warned last week of possible rolling cuts to water supplies in the capital amid what officials call the worst drought in decades.

Decades of mismanagement and corruption, not climate alone, pushed Iran toward water collapse

ANALYSIS

Australia records sharp rise in arson and violent antisemitism

This year's total of 1654 consisted of 24 physical assaults, 33 incidents of vandalism, 621 physical abuse, and 359 graffiti, 238 messages, and 379 posters, according to the ECAJ

Over 300 rabbis, Jewish leaders call for removal of UN official who denied Oct. 7 rapes

An Israeli flag flutters in the wind as boats gather on Sydney Harbour during the Solidarity Convoy opposing antisemitism, in Sydney, Australia, October 12, 2025.

Judge orders University of Florida to readmit law student who posted antisemitic content online

OPINION

Stopping Jews from bettering mankind: What drives modern antisemitic conspiracies

JUDGES ARRIVE for a session of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

ByCOOKIE SCHWAEBER-ISSAN

OPINION

Hypocrisy: Mamdani's claim to follow int'l law is merely disguised antisemitism

ByMICHAEL EHRENSTEIN

Ben Rhodes’s NYT piece on Gaza is misinformation disguised as moral reality

OPINION

A recent column on Gaza relies on disputed claims and raises serious questions about how the conflict is being framed.

Israel adopting messaging reforms, following Charlie Kirk's warning in final letter to Netanyahu

New field hospital treating Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Carrie Soloway, inspiration for trailblazing trans Jewish protagonist of ‘Transparent,’ dies at 88

Pentagon review faults Hegseth over Signal messages on Yemen strikes, sources say

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group, after a meeting of NATO Defense Ministers at the Alliance headquarters, in Brussels, Belgium October 15, 2025.

OPINION

Will young Israelis' rightward, traditional shift impact the country's future?

BySHUKI FRIEDMAN

CENTCOM unveils Task Force Scorpion Strike to field one-way attack drones in Mideast

The reverse-engineered Shaheed drones are long range, can operate autonomously, and can be launched by catapult, rocket-assisted takeoff, or mobile ground and vehicle systems.

Baram to 'Post': Selling Arrow-3 to Germany helps increase IDF missile defense capacity

EXCLUSIVE

CENTCOM's Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones.

REVIEW

Pro-Palestinian hacktivists launched hundreds of cyberattacks on Israeli space sector

The Jerusalem Post's Yonah Jeremy Bob visits Holzdorf Air Force base in Germany, December 3, 2025.

'Post' witnesses blockbuster deployment of Germany's Israeli-made Arrow anti-missile defense

Massivit 10000 additive manufacturing system

From theme parks to UAVs: Massivit 3D joins Israel’s defense pivot

NYC principal turns down Holocaust survivor’s talk over his ‘messages around Israel and Palestine’

The principal of the Brooklyn middle school MS 447, Arin Rusch, said that she believed that hosting survivor Sami Steigman’s presentation was not “right” for the school.

Doctor in Matthew Perry overdose case sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison

Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann is photographed in his home on December 9, 2024 in New York.

Guinness World Records no longer accepting submissions from Israel, Palestinian territories

Egyptian Ashraf Mahrous, 44 years old, pulled 20 private cars for a distance of 10 meters on August 1, 2025 in Cairo, Egypt.

Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa

UN sending Hamas 'dangerous message': Rights groups urge UN to recognize Hamas’s sexual violence

ISRAELI WOMEN protest outside UN Headquarters in Jerusalem, in November. Finally, yet months too late, a UN team investigating the sexual violence against women in Israel on October 7 found “reasonable grounds” to believe that such violence did indeed occur.

In Collaboration

Small patients, big emergencies

The Israeli golden era

Aryeh Bar Eitan, Joint Founder and CEO – IGOLD.

A new model for purposeful aging, made in Jerusalem

Nofei Yerushalayim: Philosophy that goes beyond a mere idea.

OECD sees sustained post-war growth in Israel

The OECD recommends Israel adopt structural reforms, including cutting the budget of yeshivas

How one Canadian donor is turning the Negev into Israel’s AI capital

A person holds Israeli shekel coins in their hand in Jerusalem on December 18, 2024.

Lockheed Martin extends industrial cooperation with Israel through 2029, aiming to boost trade

ILA unveils plan for Israel’s first American-model retirement village

'Planned retirement village in Arad' - illustrative

Rabbi Sid Slivko: Helping pave the way for olim to live and thrive in Israel

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

EDITORIAL

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.

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

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.

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

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

Chabad Hospitality in the cloud forest of Boquete, Panama

US Politics

Jared Isaacman, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, April 9, 2025.

NASA nominee Isaacman returns to Senate, stressing urgency on US lunar strategy

Dell family pledges $6.25 billion to jump-start 'Trump Accounts' for 25 million US children

US pauses all immigration applications from 19 non-European countries, including Iran

Diaspora

Police officer and security staff look on as protesters display banners before Maccabi Tel Aviv faces Aston Villa, in Birmingham, UK, November 6, 2025

West Midlands police chief under fire for bogus intel used to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans

Lighting the way: A glimpse into the life of an Israeli emissary

Palestine Action vandals hospitalized amid hunger strike against proscription

Judaism

HAREDIM SCUFFLE with police outside Jerusalem’s IDF Recruitment Center, Nov. 12.

A defense of Israel's ultra-Orthodox - and a plea to their leadership

Planning first Guinness record-breaking Shabbat dinner, and not bitter about being beaten

America’s oldest Jewish congregation launches a kosher food pantry on the Upper West Side

Christian World

TUCKER CARLSON speaks at a memorial service for slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, in September.

US evangelical leader calls Tucker Carlson’s anti-Israel line ‘worse than Nazi Party platform’

Pope to end first overseas trip by praying with 100,000 Lebanese at Beirut blast site

Vatican, Hezbollah flags wave: Pope Leo calls for peaceful dialogue during Beirut visit

Food

ANICCA – from coffee and pastries to wine and tapas.

Anicca: Tel Aviv’s all-day vegan café

Holy in Tel Aviv: Great cocktails, innovative food, and jazz

Boiler 02: The hottest new club in Jerusalem

Archaeology

Site BP 784, relics of a hut with an annex from the Middle Ages.

Ancient Sudan burial site reveals 4,000-year-old funeral ritual in forgotten Nubian kingdom

Archaeologists find record-size Ming Dynasty cannon at Great Wall of China

Turkey unveils new Gobeklitepe discoveries, adding to picture of Neolithic age

Science

A microscopic magnetite fossil discovered in sediment below the North Atlantic, seen using X-ray microscopy

Ancient magnetite fossils may be remnants of a natural GPS used by marine creatures

Israeli gas sensor spots ‘mirror’ molecules, opening path to breath-based diagnostics

NASA rover detects electrical discharges - 'mini-lightning' - on Mars

Culture

The winners of the search for America's "best Jewish college athlete" will be announced in March 2026

Manischewitz holding competition for its next matzah-box cover athlete

Eti Tsicko's Nandauri, far more psychologically complex than its outline indicates

Solidarity Film Festival focuses on human rights

History

In 1979, Claude Lanzmann (right) interviews Tadeusz Pankiewicz, a Polish pharmacist who aided Jews in the Krakow ghetto, for the film "Shoah."

New York Historical exhibition immerses listeners in Holocaust testimony

500-year-old Bible map inadvertently shaped modern ideas of national borders, study asserts

Nazi killer in infamous ‘Last Jew in Vinnitsa’ picture finally identified using AI

OMG

Tesco suspends employee for refusing to handle Israeli goods, prompting pro-Palestinian protests

Nick Fuentes complains about being left off StopAntisemitism's ‘Antisemite of the Year’ list

Over 20,000 rounds of German military ammunition, stolen in overnight shipping heist

Consumerism

'Invade Iran or accept talks,' ex-Israel Air Force chief warns

Israel's next Mossad chief: Who are you, Roman Gofman?

Netanyahu taps Military Secretary Roman Gofman as next Mossad chief

'I’ll give you hell back': Ex-hostage Edan Alexander vows payback on Hamas 'demons'

Gantz calls to abolish 12th grade, restructure system in education reform proposal

Iraq backtracks on freezing Iran-backed groups’ funds, plans to revise terror list

Netanyahu will visit New York City despite Mamdani's threat to arrest him, PM vows

Iran-backed drone strikes on US oil sites push Iraq closer to Washington over Tehran

Elon Musk calls Jewish people 'peak white' in viral X post about extinction of white people

US senator pushes ban on dual citizenship, creating uncertainty for Israeli-Americans, olim

Penultimate hostage returns: Sudthisak Rinthalak identified as deceased captive returned to Israel

Who was slain Gaza hostage Sudthisak Rinthalak?

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

Following the multi-front war, Israel should reduce US dependency and seek alliances in Asia

Hamas infiltrated, manipulated aid NGOs, captured Gaza documents reveal

Israel, Lebanon hold first senior-level talks in decades as US pushes engagement

Canadian group calls for Olmert, Livni arrest over alleged war crimes

Phase two of Gaza peace plan is 'going to happen pretty soon,' Trump says

'Watershed moment': Eurovision faces boycott threat as EBU meets on Israel’s participation in 2026

Nearly quarter of Israeli public would consider moving overseas, IDI survey reveals

Israel races to cut Trump tariffs on billions in exports to US

'The voice of the industry': Inside IATI’s fight for continuity and growth in Israel’s tech sector

Knesset hears harrowing new testimony of alleged ritual sexual abuse; survivors demand action

Spotlight

Germany knows that erasing Israel from various platforms does nothing for peace

'A woman is like a flower': Khamenei defends Iran’s treatment of women as critics cite Mahsa Amini

The primetime princess's fall from grace

Hugo Boss became wealthy off SS uniform production, study finds

Reservists Party accuses Likud of pressuring registrar to block its registration

Saudi Arabia sends $90 million to rescue Palestinian Authority from financial collapse

Israel sends diplomats to Lebanon for ceasefire body meeting for first time

Released hostage Elizabeth Tsurkov: ‘Nothing prepares you for horror’ of torture in captivity

Decades of mismanagement and corruption, not climate alone, pushed Iran toward water collapse

Australia records sharp rise in arson and violent antisemitism

Over 300 rabbis, Jewish leaders call for removal of UN official who denied Oct. 7 rapes

Judge orders University of Florida to readmit law student who posted antisemitic content online

Stopping Jews from bettering mankind: What drives modern antisemitic conspiracies

Hypocrisy: Mamdani's claim to follow int'l law is merely disguised antisemitism

Ben Rhodes’s NYT piece on Gaza is misinformation disguised as moral reality

Israel adopting messaging reforms, following Charlie Kirk's warning in final letter to Netanyahu

Carrie Soloway, inspiration for trailblazing trans Jewish protagonist of ‘Transparent,’ dies at 88

Pentagon review faults Hegseth over Signal messages on Yemen strikes, sources say

Will young Israelis' rightward, traditional shift impact the country's future?

CENTCOM unveils Task Force Scorpion Strike to field one-way attack drones in Mideast

Baram to 'Post': Selling Arrow-3 to Germany helps increase IDF missile defense capacity

Pro-Palestinian hacktivists launched hundreds of cyberattacks on Israeli space sector

'Post' witnesses blockbuster deployment of Germany's Israeli-made Arrow anti-missile defense

From theme parks to UAVs: Massivit 3D joins Israel’s defense pivot

NYC principal turns down Holocaust survivor’s talk over his ‘messages around Israel and Palestine’

Doctor in Matthew Perry overdose case sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison

Guinness World Records no longer accepting submissions from Israel, Palestinian territories

Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa

UN sending Hamas 'dangerous message': Rights groups urge UN to recognize Hamas’s sexual violence

In Collaboration

Small patients, big emergencies

The Israeli golden era

A new model for purposeful aging, made in Jerusalem

OECD sees sustained post-war growth in Israel

How one Canadian donor is turning the Negev into Israel’s AI capital

Lockheed Martin extends industrial cooperation with Israel through 2029, aiming to boost trade

ILA unveils plan for Israel’s first American-model retirement village

Israeli startup Zafran Security raises $60m

Southeast Asia storm deaths near 800 as scale of disaster revealed

Greece declares water emergency as nationwide supply measures accelerate

Sri Lanka's cyclone death toll climbs to 355, with 366 missing

Australia climate change protest disrupts shipping at coal port, 21 arrested

'Tis the season: Signs that winter has arrived in Jerusalem

Digital attention exercises reduce soldiers’ PTSD risk, study shows

World AIDS Day: HIV diagnoses in Israel drop 22% in 2024, Health Ministry reports

Complications arise from stopping weight-loss injections before pregnancy, study finds

A symptom of adult failure: Why 40% of Israeli teens exhibit violent, aggressive behavior

Israel's measles outbreak linked to global decline in vaccination rates, WHO warns

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

Knesset committee addresses aliyah issues as Israel anticipates postwar immigration surge

Rabbi Sid Slivko: Helping pave the way for olim to live and thrive in Israel

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

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

Many young people don’t want to buy apartments

New study: 63% of Israelis believe buying an apartment is a worthwhile deal