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Footage of Hamas terrorists using UN facilities for cover and transport, May 14, 2024

Massive rocket barrage hits Israel's North as IDF kills Hezbollah commander

US denies it withheld information about Hamas leaders' whereabouts • Hostage families criticize inaction by government

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip. May 15, 2024.

IDF hits Hamas hard on multiple fronts for second straight day

Footage of Hamas terrorists using UN facilities for cover and transport, May 14, 2024

IDF reveals Hamas terrorists use UN vehicles, UNRWA compound as cover in Rafah

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan welcomes Hamas senior official Khaled Meshaal, as Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, looks on during a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, April 20, 2024.

Hamas plans to set up secret base in Turkey, secret documents reveal

Breaking News

France issues Interpol search warrant for a fugitive gangster known as 'The Fly'

Netanyahu says Israel to 'significantly increase' foreign workforce

Yemen's Houthis say they targeted US warship and vessel 'Destiny' in Red Sea

Top News

Activists of the terrorist organization Hezbollah

Hezbollah seeks to use Syrian refugees to create crisis with Europe

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Jeffery Lax, a City University of New York law professor who waved the American flag in front of anti-Israel protesters.

CUNY prof. threatened after waving US flag: ‘They want to destroy America’

By MICHAEL STARR

A man wears a kippa.

Suella Braverman apologizes on behalf of police for UK Jewish community feeling unsafe - report

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

China-linked network funding key anti-Israel protest groups in US - report

By MICHAEL STARR

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey’s sudden ban on trade with Israel is already affecting Jews in both countries

By DAVID I. KLEIN/JTA

Israel-Hamas War

Yitzhak Kreuzer

Otzma Yehudit MK: 'The hostages can only be released through military action'

IDF soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip.

IDF kills dozens of Hamas terrorists in largest Gaza battle in two months

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Palestinians riding boats hold Palestinian flags during a protest against the Israeli blocking of a boat of foreign activists from reaching Gaza, at the Seaport of Gaza City June 29, 2015. Israel said on Monday it had blocked a boat leading a four-vessel protest flotilla of foreign activists

Gaza Flotilla flounders with search to reflag vessels

By MICHAEL STARR

An infographic of the UNRWA complex in which the Hamas war room was embedded

IDF kills Hamas terrorists embedded inside UNRWA school in Gaza Strip

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Demonstrators protest calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip outside Hakirya Base in Tel Aviv, May 8, 2024

Families of the hostages criticize government for ignoring requests, 'Nobody picked up the phone'

Hot Opinion

Marking Remembrance Day in an increasingly complex Israel

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Biden has opened a Pandora’s box - opinion

By DOUGLAS ALTABEF

The American administration is guilty of wishful thinking

By EFRAIM INBAR

Stop whitewashing Hamas; They are our enemy

By ZINA RAKHAMILOVA

Let's focus on our wins not our woes this Independence Day - opinion

By GIL TROY

Israel News

YARIN SHRIKI, survivor of the Nova festival massacre, last month won a gold medal at the Paris Grand Prix, dedicating the victory to his fallen friend, Yochai Ben-Zechariah, whose name he wears on his kimono, next to the date October 7, 2023

Yarin Shriki wins martial arts world championship, speaks about surviving Oct. 7

By JOSHUA HALICKMAN

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a ceremony on the eve of Israeli Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers, at "Yad Lebanim" in Jerusalem on May 12, 2024 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during Israeli Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers, in Jerusalem, on May 12, 2024

'You are tools,' Levinson urges local municipality leaders to stop supporting PM Netanyahu

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

After the next election: Let the government govern

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken makes a statement during a press conference at the State Department in Washington, U.S., May 10, 2024.

US State Dept moves $1b. weapons aid for Israel to congressional review, US official says

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

'To Return Home' iron sculpture outside of Tzofar. Uploaded on 15/5/2024

Central Arava Regional Council marks Independence Day presenting an artistic exhibit for hostages

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Analysis and Features

Rabbi Warren Goldstein

After October 7, ‘never again’ has become an empty promise

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

American Jewish actor and comedian Michael Rapaport visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem, on December 15, 2023

From 'Friends' actor to vocal defender of Israel: Michael Rapaport's New Yorker’s guide to advocacy

Christian leaders to hold day of prayer for Israel this weekend

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Parasomnia: What strange things can happen inside a sleepwalker’s brain?

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

psychological factors such as individual needs, conceptions and reasons play an important role in the cheating behavior in online exams. (Illustrative).

Why do students cheat in online exams and how can it be discouraged?

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

HEROINES OF SWORDS OF IRON

Ono Conversation Corner

BANK HAPOALIM GATEWAY

Real Estate Listings

Moving Forward: Turning Israel Railways into Israel’s transporation engine

By ISRAEL RAILWAYS

(R to L) Michal Cohen, CEO Rashi Foundation; Yitzhak Danino, Mayor of Ofakim; and Oren Sagi, CEO Cisco Israel, at the Magnet youth center in Ofakim

Reviving Israel’s periphery

By ALAN ROSENBAUM

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks at a Republican fundraising dinner in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. August 5, 2023.

16 Republican senators demand IRS investigate fiscal sponsor of Students for Justice in Palestine

By LUKE TRESS/JTA

An aerial view shows the Dome of the Rock in front and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Jerusalem, April 26, 2023.

Despite war, Israeli universities rise in global rankings, Hebrew University placed highest

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Market Data

Middle East

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry attends a press conference with French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Stephane Sejourne and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi following a meeting discussing the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at Tahrir Palace,

Israeli-Egyptian tensions rise over closed Rafah crossing

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Protesters in Sderot gather for the 'Gaza March,' May 14, 2024

Protesters call for Jewish settlement of Gaza during Sderot march

By EVE YOUNG , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Citizen killed, five IDF soldiers injured by Hezbollah anti-tank missile in Western Galilee

By YONAH JEREMY BOB , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv last week.

President Herzog to 'Post': Hamas started this war, we will never give up

By TAMAR URIEL-BEERI

Egyptian cleaning workers are seen in front of the Rafah crossing from the Egyptian side, while trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians await for it to open to enter Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt October 19, 2023.

State Dept. calls for investigation into 'incredibly disturbing' reports of killed UN worker

By HANNAH SARISOHN

World News

Egyptian cleaning workers are seen in front of the Rafah crossing from the Egyptian side, while trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians await for it to open to enter Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt October 19, 2023.

State Dept. calls for investigation into 'incredibly disturbing' reports of killed UN worker

By HANNAH SARISOHN

Dutch far-right politician and leader of the PVV party, Geert Wilders speaks to the press following the exit poll and early results in the Dutch parliamentary elections, in The Hague, Netherlands November 22, 2023

Dutch nationalist Wilders on verge of forming right-wing government

FORMER US president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, last Saturday.

Biden has opened a Pandora’s box - opinion

By DOUGLAS ALTABEF

US senate floor

Candidate endorsed by J Street beats AIPAC-aligned opponent in Maryland Democratic primary

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

U.S. President Joe Biden remains in the nearly empty chamber greeting members of Congress following his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 7, 2024.

This Jewish Gen-Z-er wants to be the next progressive pro-Israel congressman

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

Antisemitism / BDS

A QUAD at Cornell University.

In a rarity, Cornell pro-Palestinian encampment disbands with neither arrests nor deal

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA

MOSHE BARTH, age 96 at the time, celebrates Independence Day.

'The Holocaust shaped my grandfather, but amid the tragedy: Hope' - opinion

Blood-red hands graffiti on the Paris Holocaust memorial, May 14, 2024.

Paris Holocaust memorial vandalized with 'blood-red hands'

By MICHAEL STARR

ISRAELI MILITARY vehicles operate on the Gazan side of the Rafah crossing, last week. An operation in Rafah is not something Israelis want, but Hamas has left us no choice, the writer states.

Stop whitewashing Hamas; They are our enemy

By ZINA RAKHAMILOVA

Soccer Football - South Africa Invitation XI v Palestine - Athlone Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa - February 18, 2024 Fans display flags in support of Palestine amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Official Hamas propaganda distributed at Mandela Foundation and fringe Jewish organization event

Environment & Climate Change

Superdeep borehole facility on the Kola peninsula, taken in 2020. Uploaded on 14/5/2024

Due to worrisome reason, the 'Entrance to Hell' in Russia is sealed

Different color fabrics.

From silk to silence: MIT unveils lightweight fabric that can tackle noise pollution

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

A 3D model of mRNA is displayed on the day of opening of German pharmaceuticals company BioNtech mRNA vaccine manufacturing plant to serve the African market in Kigali, Rwanda December 18, 2023.

Hebrew University study finds zebrafish provides clues to RNA's role in embryo formation

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Isopods eat soil crust. Uploaded on 8/5/2024

New study from the Hebrew University unveils Isopod eating habits which affects the ecosystem

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Artist's impression of the exoplanet Proxima Centauri b shown as of a arid (but not completely water-free) rocky Super-Earth.

Ozone has a key role in influencing the climate of habitable exoplanets

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

JPost Spotlight

Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, speaks during the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine with a focus on women, at the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S., April 11, 2022.

October 7 reminds us the feminist fight has a way to go

October 7 prompts us to confront uncomfortable truths about the state of feminism and the fight against violence toward women.

People walk on Jaffa street in Jerusalem, during Israel's 76th Independence Day celebrations, May 13, 2024.

Reporter's Notebook: Independence Day with the war in mind

For all that tragedy in the background of this year's ceremony, there was a spirit of hope and optimism in the air.

David Ben-Gurion publicly pronouncing the Declaration of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948, beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl, founder of modern political Zionism, in the old Tel Aviv Museum of Art building on Rothschild Street.

A brief history of Zionism, 1860-1949

A brief rundown of major historical events in the history of Zionism.

Dizengoff Square on the eve of Independence Day 1966.

A trip back to the birthplace of modern Israel: Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv tour guide Ilan Shchori's annual Independence Day tour shines light on how the city helped give birth to the modern Jewish state.

Israel Real Estate

Homes are destroyed, following the deadly October 7 attack by Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, southern Israel November 2, 2023

Evacuees' return to the South: Hundreds of apartments approved in quick procedure

By OFER PETERSBURG

Illiustration: The IMI Systems Hashalom complex

Surprising price: Tel Aviv entrance land sold for surprising price

By OFER PETERSBURG

Criminal seizure of machinery and tools in Arara

End factory noise: Peace for town residents

By OFER PETERSBURG

Palestinian workers at the end of a workday, Eyal Crossing, May 2015.

Israel already employing 28,000 Palestinians; Renovation sector in crisis

By OFER PETERSBURG

A view of the luxury apartments and tall buildings in downtown Jerusalem, on October 27, 2015. Most of the luxury apartments are owned by foreign residents or by Israelis who use them as vacation homes. The city with the largest number of phantom apartments is Jerusalem.

Ghost apartments: How empty homes haunt Jerusalem's housing landscape

By ALEX WINSTON

Christian World

A MAN PORTRAYS Jesus at the 2024 National Religious Broadcasters Association International Christian Media Convention, addressed by former US president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, in Nashville, Tennessee, in February.

No, Jews didn't kill Jesus - and many Christians know it

With God’s grace, Jewish-Christian relations have evolved in positive and productive ways over the past 60 years, thanks, in large part, to the bravery and sensitivity of Christian leaders.

The spiral stairs of the Vatican Museums, designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932.

Vatican Museums staff start unprecedented legal action over labor conditions

"Workers have decided this action only after all their demands and requests over the years were left unanswered."

Luis Andrade, President of the International Observatory of Human Rights, Gabriela Cantergi, President of B'nai B'rith International Portugal, and the Bishop of Oporto, D. Manuel Linda.

Portuguese Jewish orgs commemorate Christian figures who were kind to Jews

A nun who made kaddish for a Jewish man when no one else would was honored alongside the Bishop of Oporto, D. Manuel Linda.

A person holds a crucifix outside a Catholic church in Harare, Zimbabwe March 29, 2024.

'God has intervened': Gun failure saves Pittsburgh church pastor from shooter

A church congregant wrestled the shooter to the ground and restrained him until police arrived.

Health & Wellness

Petri dishes are pictured in an unknown location in a Cancer Research UK laboratory on an unknown date.

Breakthrough research on fruit flies may pave way for ALS cure

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

DNA MAGIC READING DNA Sample

NY study identifies genetic link between inflammatory bowel disease and Parkinson’s disease

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

THE TAIWAN delegation in the annual parade during Sukkot in Jerusalem 2023.

Time to allow Taiwan into the WHO - opinion

By YA-PING (ABBY) LEE

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during a protest against the recent killings of Palestinian protesters on the Gaza-Israel border and the U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem, in Istanbul, Turkey May 18, 2018.

Erdogan: more than 1,000 Hamas members being treated in Turkish hospitals

BEN’S SYMPTOMS included hot flashes.

Exploring the unspoken: Male menopause and the taboo around It

By ANDREA SAMUELS

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The International Jerusalem Post, a weekly digest, publishes the best of the Jerusalem Post's news for the readers abroad.

Arab-Israeli Conflict

IDF Chief Herzi Halevi salutes during a ceremony marking Memorial Day in Jerusalem on May 13, 2024

The great non-resignations, non-probe of Oct. 7 and the end of personal responsibility- analysis

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Palestinians sit to next to belongings as people flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza city, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the southern Gaza Strip May 9, 2024.

Criminal gangs, profiteers thrive in Gaza as cash shortage worsens misery

Science

Adult male killfish.

How germline regulation, sex differences impact the lifespan of male, female vertebrates

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Fake news

People are more likely to avoid the news as concerns on misinformation grow, study finds

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Archaeology

Sanhedria derives its name from the Tombs of the Sanhedrin, an ancient complex of tombs believed to be the final resting place of the Sanhedrin.

Sanhedria: Living in the Great Council’s long shadow

By ALEX WINSTON

An ancient coin from the reign of the last Jewish king, Antigonus II Mattathias is seen after having been recovered from an alleged thief in eastern Jerusalem.

Discovery of 17th century coins may prove legend of infamous Polish conman actually true

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

US Politics

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a visit to Gateway Technical College in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, US, May 8, 2024

House to vote on Republican-led bill requiring Biden to allow delivery of restricted weapons

By HANNAH SARISOHN

Displaced Palestinians prepare to evacuate a tent camp, after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of Rafah, amid ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 11, 2024.

US: Israel can’t totally defeat Hamas in Gaza, end game needed

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Diaspora

Police speak with people after detaining a man with a Palestine flag at a vigil for Israel held by Manchester Jewish Community in Manchester, Britain, October 11, 2023

ISIS-inspired terror attack against British Jewry thwarted, suspects charged

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Money Mind Hack Poster

In Maryland, AIPAC has poured $4.2M into a congressional primary where Israel is not an issue

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

Judaism

A demonstrator carries an Israeli flag as he walks through fields to avoid a check-point and reach a protest against the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza and demanding the immediate release of Israeli hostages kidnapped in the deadly October 7 attack, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel an

Zionism isn't inconsistent with the Torah: Rather, they go hand-in-hand

By URI PILICHOWSKI

Israelis cheer during the annual Bible Quiz on Israel's Independence Day. April 16, 2013

Independence Day Bible Quiz: Bringing Jews worldwide together

Food

The weekly Tuesday Farmers’ Market at the First Station. The Israeli flag reads ‘Now is the time to buy local – strengthening Jerusalem businesses.’

Down (South) on the farm: Bringing southern produce up to Jerusalem

By NATAN ROTHSTEIN

COOKING WITH Henny Shor.

Grill it easy

Culture

STRONG, DIVERSE, intelligent, vocal, and accomplished women are important to our country

‘The Quad’: A different type of current affairs show

By PAULINA FELDSCHAREK

Still from Come Closer

Movie by Israeli director Tom Nesher to be shown at Tribeca Festival

By HANNAH BROWN

Travel

The Market House Jaffa.

Market House Jaffa: A cool boutique hotel a stone's throw from the shuk

By LINDA GRADSTEIN

ANANTARA KALUTARA, a resort on the picturesque southwest coast, where the Kalu Ganga River meets the Indian Ocean.

Is Sri Lanka the new luxury hospitality getaway for Israelis?

By MOTTI VERSES

Podcasts

Adam Rakib and Liat Ashkenazi

Meet the Israeli gaming co. fighting October 7 censorship

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Yifat Calderon, cousin of Ofer Calderon, who is being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, and supporters in front of the US Embassy branch in Tel Aviv. "Entry into Rafah is a death sentence for the hostages. The government is sacrificing the hostages. We will not allow it to bury the deal."

What is Qatar's role in hostage negotiations?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Aliyah

FIGHTING THE WhatsApp war, with a group of 800 volunteers.

Meet the Oleh rabbi making a difference for families in Tel Aviv

DAVID BEN-GURION officially declares the State of Israel, in Tel Aviv’s Independence Hall, May 14, 1948.

A Zionist story from the founding days of the State of Israel

By DAVID GEFFEN

JPost Shopping

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Best King Size Bed Frames Review

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Conferences

The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference

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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

A truck carrying humanitarian aid bound for the Gaza Strip drives at the inspection area at the Kerem Shalom crossing, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in southern Israel, March 14, 2024.

Protesters torch aid trucks headed for Gaza through West Bank

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , REUTERS

The judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, the Netherlands.

World Court to hold hearings over Israel's Rafah attacks

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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