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Entrance to the Police Investigation Unit in the Justice Ministry.

Shin Bet official suspected of leaking classified information to journalist, minister

"In light of the dissemination of partial and incorrect information, it was decided to lift the gag order," the PID said.

The Nova Massacre Scene

IDF kills Nukhba terrorist who participated in Oct. 7 massacre, hostage release ceremony

An Iranian newspaper with a cover photo of Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, is seen in Tehran

Witkoff: Trump seeks to limit Iran's uranium enrichment

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian visits Iran's nuclear achievements exhibition in Tehran, Iran April 9, 2025.

Time for Trump to show his tough rhetoric on Tehran carries results

Breaking News

Three injured after gas tank explodes in Petah Tikva

Blast targeting police truck in southwestern Pakistan kills 3, injures 19, says Geo TV

Defense Ministry to conduct exercise at border crossing on Highway 90

Top News

IDF soldiers seen operating in the southern Gaza Strip, April 13, 2025

Hamas says studying ceasefire proposal, IDF kills Nukhba terrorist in Gaza

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University in Somerville, Massachusetts, poses in an undated photograph provided by her family and obtained by Reuters on March 29, 2025

State Department says Trump admin. has no grounds to deport Tufts Uni. student

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Rawa Majid, leader of the 'Foxtrot Network' in an Interpol Red Notice arrest warrant.

UK sanctions Iranian-backed, Swedish-based criminal gang 'Foxtrot', leader

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Green Day makes pro-Palestinian lyric change at Coachella, sparking controversy

By NERIA BARR

Beirut Port, one of the largest and busiest ports in the Eastern Mediterranean, shows traces of Beirut 2020 port explosion on October 10, 2024 in Beirut, Lebanon. The city, which located on the eastern Mediterranean coast, has a population of over 1.5 million.

Iran resumes smuggling arms to Hezbollah via Beirut’s port

By AMICHAI STEIN

Israel at War

(Illustration) Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer against a backdrop of posters of missing hostages.

Hostage deal talks stall as Israel, Hamas clash over guarantees to end war

By AMICHAI STEIN

Yona Brief with parents, David and Hazel.

IDF soldier Yona Brief’s life and death: 417-day miracle defying all medical expectations

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

IDF soldiers seen operating in the northern Gaza Strip, April 13, 2025

Israel's Gaza invasion reduced to a crawl as IDF makes limited progress

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

The first of two Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors is launched during a successful intercept test

Half of ballistic missiles fired by Yemen since resumption of Gaza fighting failed

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip. February 22, 2025.

Hamas agrees to release nine hostages, pressure exerted to release more

Hot Opinion

Time for Trump to show his tough rhetoric on Tehran carries results

By JPOST EDITORIAL

A turbulent time for the Jewish people can be an opportunity to come together

By DAVID JABLINOWITZ

Libya as a model: How to stop Iran - and Tehran's path to survival

By YAAKOV KATZ

Behind the Iran nuclear talks: What Donald Trump needs to tell Tehran

By AMOTZ ASA-EL

Yemeni people continue to bear burden of weaponization of Houthis

By NEVILLE TELLER

Israel News

Protesters call for the release of hostages on Begin Street in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 14, 2025

What happened on day 555? Latest on US-Iran talks, Gaza war, Syria

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

View of the Ibn Sina Hospital, in the West Bank city of Jenin on January 30, 2024

IDF soldiers enter Jenin hospital in breach of protocol, arrest suspect

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

IDF chief tells cabinet: Conquering Gaza a 'fantasy' amid troop deficit

By ELIAV BREUER

The Israeli Kennel Club, sponsored by Royal Canin, will hold the largest international dog show in Israel in Arad.

Israel Kennel Club to host dog show in Arad to support southern residents

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Einav Zangauker, mother of Israeli hostage Matan in video address to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday April 12, 2025.

Netanyahu 'imposed death sentence' on abandoned son, hostage mother says

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Analyses & Features

AZERBAIJAN’S PRESIDENT Ilham Aliyev is flanked by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the UN’s COP29 climate change conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, last November. Israel-Turkey talks were underway in Baku last week, according to sources.

A war between Israel and Turkey can be prevented with Azerbaijan's help

By ROMAN GUREVICH

Antennarius pictus - Painted FrogFish

Masters of camouflage: Rare sighting of frogfish spotted in Gulf of Eilat

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Josh Hammer: A renewed Jewish-Christian alliance for Western civilization

By PESACH WOLICKI

It's time for Israel to deradicalize and free the hostages

By YARON SCHWARTZ

Books (illustrative)

The power of telling the whole story: Honoring truth and complexity

By JACOB SCHIMMEL

Elegance & Excellence

50 Influential Jews

Ono Conversation Corner

Real Estate Listings

Stenella frontalis.

Google announces new AI aimed at communicating with dolphins

By DR. ITAY GAL

MILORAD DODIK, president of the Republika of Srpska, addresses his supporters in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in February. For Israelis, the strange story of Bosnia’s political turmoil should highlight the vast hypocrisy of European states, says the writer.

Illegitimate lawfare: Bosnia uses Israel as a battleground

By EUGENE KONTOROVICH

A new Israeli startup has begun a new venture that will allow companies to hire an AI agent to join their development teams.

Israeli startup AutonomyAI raises millions turning AI into full-time developers

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

An illustrative image of Telegram.

The new battleground: How Oct. 7 set a new standard, challenges for the media

Market Data

Antisemitism / BDS

Crowd gathers at Place Kleber with the call of Strasbourg Palestine Collective and marches to the Place du Chateau with slogans in support of Gaza, in Strasbourg, France on March 22, 2025.

Clash with anti-Israel marchers at Jewish-owned Strasbourg bakery draws outrage

By MICHAEL STARR

French police in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, central France, August 31, 2019. (illustrative)

'Dirty Jew': French Jew beaten on street in latest antisemitic attack in Villeurbanne

By MICHAEL STARR

Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre speaks during his election campaign tour, in British Columbia, Canada, April 6, 2025

Poilievre: Deport foreign antisemitic lawbreakers, Conservative gov't would protect Jews

By MICHAEL STARR

Hamas terrorists in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. February 4, 2025.

Jenrick: Disbar Hamas lawyers who appealed to remove group from terrorism list

By MICHAEL STARR

Palestinian businessman Bashar Masri.

Palestinian billionaire resigns from Harvard post after lawsuit alleges he helped finance Hamas

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Middle East

Hamas terrorists in Rafah, in Gaza, February 22, 2025.

Hamas unwilling to lay down arms in Gaza, Al Jazeera reports

By LIRAN HARONI

UAE's Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan greets Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa, as UAE's Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Court for Special Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan looks on, at Al Shati Palace, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Em

Middle East summits cement Syria's Sharaa as regional leader

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Hezbollah's drone supply chain uncovered across Europe

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun attends a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, March 28, 2025.

Lebanon supports return to 1949 agreements with Israel, president says

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi speaks in Baghdad, Iraq October 13, 2024.

Why is Iran looking forward to a second round of US nuclear talks?

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

World News

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas before a meeting at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, France July 20, 2022

PA President Abbas, French President Macron discuss Israel-Hamas ceasefire, reject Gaza plan

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam meets with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, April 14, 2025

Syria's Sharaa, Lebanese PM discuss border demarcation weeks after ceasefire

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa and Vice-President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas attend a press conference, following their meeting at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah Monday, March 24, 2025.

EU announces €1.6 billion support package for Palestinian Authority reforms

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks during a joint press conference with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Tehran, Iran, February 25, 2025.

Iranian foreign minister to visit Moscow ahead of second Iran-US meeting

US President Donald Trump leads a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, April 10, 2025

Trump: Iran issue is easy to solve, they cannot obtain nuclear weapons

By AMICHAI STEIN , REUTERS

Environment & Climate Change

An injured forest dormouse being treated at KKL-JNF's Hula Valley Wildlife Acclimatization Center, April 2025.

KKL-JNF rehabilitates injured forest dormouse after rare daytime sighting

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

HAMEGINIM FOREST – The Holiday of Spring comes at just the right time here in Israel.

Hiking the Holy Land: Israel’s outdoors during Passover

By SUSANNAH SCHILD

From crisis to innovation: Doral calls for renewable energy to become Israel’s strategic priority

By LIOR NOVIK , IN COLLABORATION WITH DORAL

An illustrative image of wildfires caused by climate change.

Climate crisis hits women hardest, Tel Aviv conference reveals

By ARIELA OHRENSTEIN

A wildfire in Israel's north.

Israel launches AI fire prediction tool to protect transportation systems

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

JPost Spotlight

Berlinale Best Documentary award winner ‘Holding Liat’ opens this year’s festival.

'Holding Liat': Docaviv Film Festival to open with hostage documentary

The festival will include premiere screenings of over 100 documentary films from Israel and abroad, including 36 new Israeli films.

Dennis Gaitsgory at the award ceremony on April 5, 2025 in Santa Monica.

Israeli-American mathematician Gaitsgory scoops $3m Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics

Gaitsgory and his team have spent the past thirty years solving the geometric Langlands conjecture.

Yaakov Kirschen.

‘National treasure’ Yaakov Kirschen, Dry Bones cartoonist, dies at 87

The famed cartoonist, known for Dry Bones, has been published by many leading newspapers in both Israel and the Diaspora.

Mélanie Laurent, an award-winning French actress who will star in the fifth season of Fauda.

Mélanie Laurent to star in Fauda’s fifth season

Idan Amedi will be returning as a guest after he was wounded while fighting in Gaza.

Israel Real Estate

"Utopia" Project, Sde Dov Tel Aviv-Yafo

30 years in tower construction: Nachmias Group conquers Tel Aviv

By IN COOPERATION WITH NACHMIAS GROUP

Illustration: Pisgat Ramot neighborhood

The IDF Is moving South – and Beersheba prepares with a variety of housing options

By THE BEERSHEBA MUNICIPALITY & THE CONSTRUCTION , HOUSING

Air builds as clear as wine

By OFER PETERSBURG

Taubel Complex, Neighborhood G in Beersheba.

New street and rental apartments for service members in Beersheba

By WALLA/REALESTATE

Tzur Shalom Renewal Project, Kiryat Bialik

From suburbs to towers: Kiryat Bialik's old neighborhood transforms

By OFER PETERSBURG

Christian World

Pope Francis. Vatican announces new guidelines allowing gay men to become priests in Italy under vow of celibacy.

Britain's King Charles makes surprise visit to Pope Francis at Vatican

King Charles and Queen Camilla had been due to make a formal state visit to the Vatican, but postponed their plans after doctors prescribed Francis two months of rest.

Tucker Carlson speaking with attendees at the 2020 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Pro-Israel evangelical leader calls on Trump to tariff Tucker Carlson for pro-Iran post

"It’s time for the White House to impose a Tariff on Tucker Carlson for illegally importing anti-Semitic Iranian talking points and putting America last,” Cardoza-Moore said.

Pope Francis gestures during his first public appearance in five weeks, on the day of his discharge from Gemelli Hospital, in Rome, Italy, March 23, 2025.

Pope Francis was so close to death, doctors considered ending treatment

The pope's official nurse pleaded with doctors to ensure that they did not stop his treatment despite significant risks.

istoric St Mary’s City, Town Center, St Mary’s County, Maryland.

After 300 Years, Maryland's 1667 brick chapel reopens to the public

On April 12, Maryland’s Historic St. Mary's City will open the doors of its reconstructed Brick Chapel.

Health & Wellness

Dr. Rabbi Refael Feuerstein in the office of his late father, Prof. Reuven Feuerstein.

Jerusalem's Feuerstein Institute spreads its techniques for helping kids with trauma, disabilities

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

$DR. URI YOEL of the Soroka Medical Center conducted a new study that examined patients aged 65 and over who had undergone hip fracture surgery and were subsequently treated in the geriatrics department.$

Soroka-University Medical Center saves bones and lives with new special department

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

An illustrative image of two people holding hands.

Is it love? Psychologist shares 10 ways that real love manifests

By DR. MIRIAM ADAHAN

A joint study conducted by Dr. Ziv Ben-Zion has discovered that it’s possible to predict the severity of PTSD by analyzing brain connectivity patterns as early as one month after a traumatic event.

How to predict PTSD severity by brain connectivity patterns: University of Haifa researcher

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Eye-tracking glasses show how dogs perceive human gestures. Illustration.

Hebrew University’s innovation in antibiotic eyedrops offers new hope for dogs and humans

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF

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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

A synagogue mosaic at the Huqoq site depicts an elephant alongside other soldiers and war animals, as well as an elder holding a scroll surrounded by young men with sheathed swords.

Elephant in the synagogue: Iconography in thriving post-Temple community raises questions

Soviet M-class submarine Malyutka VI series.

Modern tech unveils WWII submarine 'M-49' lost for 82 years in Russian waters

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Aliyah

A pro-Palestinian demonstrator holds a sign, as they take part in a protest against US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Turkey, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Istanbul, November 4, 2023.

World Betar leaders calls on diaspora Jews to immigrate to Israel amid rising antisemitism

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

ALIYAH AND INTEGRATION Minister Ofir Sofer welcomes immigrants from France at Ben-Gurion Airport in August. The writer asks: Isn’t it time to welcome immigrants the way we would embrace a long-lost friend who has finally come home?

More families with young children making aliyah, Sofer tells 'Post'

By AMICHAI STEIN

Diaspora

Policemen arrest student during students and pro-Palestine activists protest across New York City demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student activist and recent Columbia graduate in the borough of Manhattan.

Authorities changing visas status of students at southern US universities due to Gaza stance

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

PEOPLE PROTEST in Berlin outside Humboldt University in support of Israel and against antisemitism, in October. The charge that Israel is perpetrating a genocide is culturally rooted, springing from antisemitic tropes, Cold War politics, and settler-colonial academic theory, insists the writer.

Prosecutors: Assault of non-Jew by Gazan, Lebanese men in Berlin was antisemitic

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Judaism

Castel wines are seen on a Passover Seder table.

Building bridges at the Seder table: An enduring message of the four children

By EVAN BERNSTEIN

COOKED MEALS are prepared for distribution. NIS 2.7 billion worth of food, enough to feed hundreds of thousands, will be wasted in Israel this holiday season, the writer laments.

Stop wasting food: The Passover challenge of excess and hunger

Food

THE VERANDA AT Jerusalem’s David Citadel Hotel – a worthy stop for meat lovers.

The meat of the matter: Biting into the Veranda at Jerusalem’s David Citadel Hotel

By CALEV BEN-DAVID

Castel wines are seen on a Passover Seder table.

Passover 2025: This is the year to support and buy Israeli wines

By ADAM MONTEFIORE

Culture

A scene from 'Alex is Lovesick.'

A tribute to Israeli classics, 'Hacks' returns, and Jon Hamm gets in trouble

By HANNAH BROWN

Bellamy Bellucci: The pro-Israel advocate breaking every mold and defending every truth.

Bellamy Bellucci: The outspoken activist defying Israel’s critics, antisemites

By BATYA LEVINTHAL

Travel

THE WAT Phra Yai, Koh Samui’s Big Buddha Temple.

An experience in Thailand’s Koh Samui before the ‘White Lotus Effect’

By MOTTI VERSES

An El Al plane in Ben-Gurion Airport.

Dominant over 18 months of war, Israel's El Al faces return of foreign carriers

By STEVEN SCHEER/ REUTERS

Podcasts

IDF soldiers in a swearing in ceremony. February 27, 2025.

IDF reservist dismissed after demanding gov't prioritize hostages speaks with 'Post'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Tamar Uriel-Beeri is seen interviewing Prof. Shimon Shetreet on The Jerusalem Post Podcast.

Shimon Shetreet: Israeli gov't wants to change judiciary to give prime minister 'total power'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

US Politics

What will happen to US, Iran relations?

Trump’s Iran talks could backfire, strengthen regime, expert warns

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump delivers remarks on tariffs at the White House last week. Because Trump is so hard to characterize neatly, we should think twice before jumping to conclusions as to where his tariff policies are headed, says the writer.

Don’t panic – yet, despite the chaos caused by Trump’s tariffs

By JONATHAN M. NATHAN

History

YACOV LIVNE (left) had to contend with diplomatic issues between Israel and Poland, Israeli political infighting, and the Ukraine-Russia war, during his term. Here, the former ambassador meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda.

'History is central to Israel-Poland ties,' former ambassador to Poland tells 'Post'

SUPPRESSION OF Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 16-19, 1943. In this iconic image, captured Jews are led by Waffen SS soldiers to the assembly point for deportation (Umschlagplatz).

Warsaw Uprising's last survivor: The story, testimony of Michael Smuss

By RAPHAEL SHUCHAT

Science

Artist's impression of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Webb telescope documents alien planet's death plunge into a star

(Left to right): Prof. Asaf Madi, Prof. Roded Sharan & PhD student Ron Sheinin.

TAU develops AI tool to decode cell responses to cancer treatments

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

The bus that a resident of Shafir overturned in Rehovot on Saturday April 13, 2025.

Man steals a bus in Rehovot 'to get home for the Seder'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

15 Million year old fish fossil with preserved stomach contents.

Scientists discover new 15 million-year old fish with last meal fossilized inside its stomach

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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Children of reservists from Sderot enjoying pizza.

Meir Panim preps for Passover amidst an ongoing conflict

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