Gazans and Israelis celebrate the news of the achieved hostage-ceasefire deal.

Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal reached, to go into effect Sunday at noon

BREAKING NEWS

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Qatar to supply Syria with 200 megawatts of electricity, PM says

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Syria's de facto leader says country ready to welcome UN forces in buffer zone with Israel

IDF with Palestinian demonstrators during a rally in solidarity with six Palestinian prisoners who managed to esacpe from an Israeli prison a few days ago, in Hebron, September 9, 2021.

Former senior Israeli prison official: ‘No price for the return of Israeli hostages’

By KEREN SETTON/THE MEDIA LINE

DEMONSTRATORS HOLD posters of (from left) former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh alongside former Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and of Nasrallah next to former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, at a protest in Tunis. Israel is now regionally stronger, but internal divisions are deeper, the writer argues.

Has Israel ended the multifront threat in the Middle East?

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Hostage families hold a protest adjacent to the Knesset, January 16, 2025

Hope, anxiety and anger among Jerusalem residents following ceasefire announcement

By Nicholas Potter

Top News

People attend a demonstration in support of Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, at Trafalgar Square in London, Britain October 19, 2024.

‘Ceasefire today, liberation tomorrow:’ Activists hail hostage deal, vow to destroy Israel

By MICHAEL STARR

Israeli artist Eyal Golan performs at Bloomfield Stadium, in Tel Aviv. June 13, 2024.

Eyal Golan addresses resurfaced sexual abuse claims against him

Palestinians search for casualties at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City November 30, 2024.

Hamas claims Israel struck Gaza target where female hostage was held

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Maritime sources expect Houthis to halt Red Sea attacks after Gaza deal

By REUTERS

Houthi military spokesman, Yahya Saree, delivers a statement claiming attacks on Israel, during a rally by protesters, mainly Houthi supporters, to show support to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen December 20, 2024.

Will Yemen's Houthis get away with a year of attacks on Israel?

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Israel News

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip. January 11, 2025.

10 IDF soldiers injured from explosion during weapons display on base in South

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Relatives of hostages and supporters take part in a protest calling for their release in Tel Aviv

Five Israeli female soldiers to be released on Sunday in first phase of hostage deal

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich addresses the Knesset plenum, earlier this year. While the government is busy formulating the state budget for 2025, it appears that the war has become a convenient excuse to ignore the deep social crisis in which Israel finds itself, the writer argues.

Smotrich demands IDF return to fighting after first phase of deal

By ELIAV BREUER , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

High Court gives Levin ten more days to appoint Chief Justice

By ELIAV BREUER

Protesters from the Valor Forum againt a deal with Hamas protest at the entrance to Jerusalem, January 16, 2025.

Right-wing Israelis protest Gaza ceasefire deal, block Jerusalem roads

By Maya Cohen

Israel at War

IDF operates in the West Bank published January 16, 2024.

Israel kills Oct. 7 Nukhba terrorist, Smotrich threatens to quit government

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Houthi-held Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Yemen, February 25, 2023.

Maritime sources expect Houthis to halt Red Sea attacks after Gaza deal

By REUTERS

Aviv Asher, 2,5-year-old, her sister Raz Asher, 4,5-year-old, and mother Doron, react as they meet with Yoni, Raz and Aviv's father and Doron's husband after they returned to Israel to the designated complex at the Schneider Children's Medical Center.

Health Ministry reveals medical protocol for hostages returned from Hamas captivity

By DR. ITAY GAL

Hamas attempts last-minute changes after deal announced, PMO says

By AMICHAI STEIN , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Udi Goren, holding a photo of his cousin Tal Haimi, held captive in Gaza for nearly 470 days.

Hostage family describes turmoil of waiting for a deal: 'No name for this feeling'

Analyses & Features

Graffiti on the Maribor Synagogue reading "Death to the Jews, Glory to Slovenia," January 13, 2025

'Jews are the evil of the world:' Slovenian synagogue vandalized

By MICHAEL STARR

Alghabra during his visit to the Old City of Jerusalem.

'Israel is a regional superpower,' says Syrian former US official to 'Post'

RACHEL AND JON Goldberg-Polin attend the funeral of their son, Hersh, on Tuesday, in Jerusalem.

Bereaved Goldberg-Polin family: Hostage deal a start to ‘national healing process’

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Right-wing Israelis protest Gaza ceasefire deal, block Jerusalem roads

By Maya Cohen

WJC President Ronald S. Lauder

Jewish groups around the world are bittersweet on a hostage deal

By MICHAEL STARR

The Fitch Ratings building is seen in New York

Gaza ceasefire should take pressure off Israel's credit rating, Fitch says

May 1, 2016. A Wizz Air Airbus A321 (HA-LXD) flies during an air show over the capital city of Budapest.

Airlines including Lufthansa cautiously plan to resume some Middle East flights

By REUTERS

Content creation war-room at Druze Tech.

Start-Up Nation Central: Israeli startups raised $12.2b in 2024

By MEYTAL VAIZBERG/GLOBES/TNS

An illustrative image of extended construction in a residential area of Tel Aviv, Israel.

'Tel Aviv prices are more expensive than Champs-Elysees'

By ANAT DANIELY LEV/GLOBES/TNS

Antisemitism / BDS

President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins addresses the "Summit of the Future" in the General Assembly Hall at United Nations Headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 22, 2024.

President Higgins's Holocaust speech questioned by Irish Jews after 'neglecting antisemitism'

By MICHAEL STARR

A DEMONSTRATION takes place in Vienna, this past November, marking the anniversary of pogroms in 1938. A sign reads: ‘No room for antisemitism.’ The rise in antisemitic beliefs is a sobering reminder that the fight against hatred is far from over, say the writers.

Antisemitism isn't history, it's current events

By MICHAEL J. SALAMON , LOUIS LIBIN

MEMBERS of Jewish Voice for Peace demonstrate in New York in 2015. (Courtesy)

Jewish Voice for Peace to pay over $600,000 to settle COVID-19 loan fraud allegation

By MICHAEL STARR

Winnipeg man charged with antisemitic vandalism

By MICHAEL STARR

The Jewish community in Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan foils Iranian plot to kill senior figure in local Jewish community

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Hot Opinion

How many more attacks before Australia defends its Jewish community?

BY JPOST EDITORIAL

America’s historians commit ‘historicide’

Time for Trump to fix Doug’s damage

BY MARTIN OLINER

New ambassadors present credentials to Herzog

BY GREER FAY CASHMAN

How will Aoun affect the Middle East?

BY ZINA RAKHAMILOVA

Middle East

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Volker Turk holds a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela January 28, 2023

UN rights chief urges Syria’s new government to pursue national reconciliation

By THE MEDIA LINE

Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim men from the Iranian-backed group Kataib Hezbollah wave the party's flags as they walk along a street painted in the colours of the Israeli flag during a parade marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of Ramadan, in Baghdad. July 25, 2014

Iraq wants Iran-backed factions to lay down weapons, foreign minister says

By REUTERS

HAMAS MEMBERS in Gaza.

Make no mistake: Hamas wants to be underestimated by Israel, West

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

'The heart is split': Hostage families fear for loved ones left out of first phase of deal

Members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) walk back to their outpost near Erbil, Kurdistan region of Iraq on Saturday, June 10, 2023. The KDPI, a leftist Kurdish group of Iran that has been running an armed struggle against the Islamic Republic's regime in Iran from exile for decades

Kurdish military official to ‘Post’: 'We did not acquire drones from Iran'

World News

US president Joe Biden released four-year-old hostage Abigail Idan. April 25, 2024.

Until hostages are free 'there is nothing,' Aunt of released hostage Abigail Mor Edan tells Post

By HANNAH SARISOHN

(Illustrative) An AI-generated image of Ayatollah Khamenei sniffing a flower

'#GazaIsVictorious': Iran's Khamenei celebrates ceasefire as win for Hamas

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , REUTERS

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to President-elect Donald Trump over the phone.

Netanyahu thanks Trump, agrees to meet in Washington soon

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Biden takes credit for his administration securing ceasefire deal in final farewell address

By HANNAH SARISOHN

US President Joe Biden meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, November 13, 2024.

State Dept. says working with Trump team on deal was in US national interest

By HANNAH SARISOHN

Environment & Climate Change

Cranes at the Hula Valley

Where hope takes flight: Saving Israel’s injured wildlife

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

In the Beersheba Midbarium, visitors can ride up in an elevator to see the world from the same height as a giraffe.

Beersheba’s Midbarium: Israel’s newest zoo is unlike any other

By PATRICIA GOLAN

FIREFIGHTERS SIT in a rescue boat as they search for people in a parking lot flooded following heavy rainfall in Ness Ziona, in 2020.

Israel's future depends on the ability to adapt to climate change

By RENANA YARDENI

2024 was the hottest year on record, scientists say

By REUTERS

A menorah is surrounded by flames from the Pacific Palisades fire along Sunset Boulevard, near Chabad of Pacific Palisades, on Jan. 7, 2025.

Pasadena synagogue burns down as fires rage across Southern California

By PHILISSA CRAMER/JTA

JPost Spotlight

US President Joe Biden delivers his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2025.

What is oligarchy, and why did Biden warn Americans about it?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

GESHER THEATER CEO Lena Kreindlin and playwright Roy Chen.

Gesher Theater's 2025 season: classics collide with the cutting-edge

By NERIA BARR

COLIN FIRTH in 'Lockerbie: A Search for Truth'

SNL’s origin story and a Japanese master

By HANNAH BROWN

Omer Etzion as Donald Trump on Eretz Nehederet.

Trump drops by Eretz Nehederet to boast about the hostage deal

By HANNAH BROWN

Israel Real Estate

A cat is seen walking across the Jaffa Street light rail tracks in Jerusalem amid the tightened coronavirus lockdown.

'We are not an ATM': Jerusalem homeowners see property tax hikes of up to 70%

Theatron Jerusalem: Luxury living in the heart of history

By NERIA BARR

Midbarium

Beersheba: Cultural and tourism hubs as economic growth accelerators

By THE BEERSHEBA MUNICIPALITY & THE CONSTRUCTION , HOUSING

Tender completed for 2,000 protected rooms in northern border communities

By Ofer Petersburg

An Example of a Prashkovsky Project in the New Neighborhood

4,300 apartments: The new neighborhood in Lod, Nofei Ben Shemen, officially inaugurated

By Ofer Petersburg

Christian World

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

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

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Pope Francis and U.S. President Joe Biden meet as they attend the G7 summit, in Savelletri, Italy June 14, 2024.

Biden awards Pope Francis medal of freedom, highest US civilian honor

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

‘The Szyk Haggadah’ on display at The Vatican Library.

'It was all eternally heavenly': Seeing 'The Szyk Haggadah' at the Vatican Library

By IRVIN UNGAR

PASSAGES CHRISTIAN student leaders visit Kibbutz Kfar Aza.

Christian student leaders' Israel trip strengthens interfaith bonds amid crisis

By Evan Bernstein

Health & Wellness

NHS Blood and Transplant embroidery seen on the uniform of a member of staff, following the announcement of the re-balloting voted in the long-running dispute over pay and staffing, in London, Britain, February 18, 2023.

Four in 10 Ashkenazi Jews have cancer-causing gene mutation

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The four rescued hostages seen at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, on June 8, 2024

A grim report: This is what the lives of returning hostages will look like

By DR. ITAY GAL

SURROUNDED BY Soroka medical staff who cared for her during the past six months, 85-year-old former hostage Alma Avraham, carrying a huge bouquet of flowers, leaves hospital to resume life in the bosom of her family.

Step-by-step: This is how Israeli hospitals are preparing to receive hostages

By DR. ITAY GAL

Hostage survivor press Red Cross on lack of medicine for hostages

By URI SELA

Baby (Illustrative)

How can you raise twins when one is more robust than the other?

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

JPost Store

Ivrit magazine

Read Israel news in easy Hebrew with Ivrit

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Jerusalem Post Store - International Edition

Feel close to Israel with The Jerusalem Post International Edition

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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 Miami Summit

The Jerusalem Post Miami Summit 2024

Coming Home: Aliyah in Times of War

The Jerusalem Post hosts conference highlighting aliyah amid war

Archaeology

Following up on a tip by a 17th century Jesuit monk, researchers discover an Inca tunnel network under Cusco.

Guided by a 17th-century Jesuit's tip, researchers uncover an Inca tunnel network beneath Cusco

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A scarab seal from the 8th century BCE uncovered during the excavation.

Archaeologists discovered a unique structure in the City of David

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

US Politics

US President Donald Trump awards the 2018 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Miriam Adelson, the wife of Las Vegas Sands Corporation Chief Executive Sheldon Adelson and Republican donor in the East Room of the White House in Washington. November 16, 2018.

Miriam Adelson reportedly pressured Trump to push Hamas into hostage deal

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, December 5, 2024 (illustration).

Blinken’s last bow: A hopeful blueprint haunted by October 7

Diaspora

The Lev Echad delegation leaves for Los Angeles to provide aid to the areas affected by the wildfires. January 14, 2025.

Lev Echad sends aid delegation to Los Angeles wildfire zones

By YUVAL BAGNO

The Jewish community in Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan foils Iranian plot to kill senior figure in local Jewish community

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Judaism

Naot owners Steve and Susan Lax, Stephen Wise Free Synagogue Senior Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, Naot CEO Moshe Marie.

Rabbi Hirsch: Reform movement wants to be present in rebuilding of Israel

By MICHAEL STARR

Ofra Keidar Hyd, and daughter Yael.

The book of Exodus: Our resilience and ability to grow from trauma

By Sivan Rahav Meir

Food

Vineyards in Israel's Galilee.

Wine tourism: Visit the historic wineries of the Galilee in Israel's North

By Adam Montefiore

El Gaucho

El Gaucho: Argentinian meat with vegan options too

By GLORIA DEUTSCH

Culture

JAN VOGLE wows them at Eilat’s Royal Garden Hotel auditorium.

Isrotel ClassiCameri Festival: virtuosity, variety, and unforgettable performances

Limmud FSU's Israel team of volunteers were key to the success of the annual Limmud FSU Israel event, Dec. 29, 2024.

Israelis with Soviet roots unite in solidarity in Tel Aviv amid the war

By LARRY LUXNER/JTA

Travel

Screenshots of fake messages sent to an Israeli businessman.

NSC issues warning of Iranian attempts to kidnap traveling Israelis

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

An Iberojet airplane, to be operated by Arkia for the TechAir round-trip flights to and from Tel Aviv and New York.

New hi-tech airline to operate direct NY-Tel Aviv flight with Arkia

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Podcasts

Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

ADL chief: Antisemitism in the US has risen by 900% over the last decade

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Jaffa Flea Market, Shuk Hapishpishim

24 hours in Jaffa

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Aliyah

Nof Kinneret

Discover the secrets to success in Israeli real estate – new webinar series!

By MALKA WINNER

PARTICIPANTS IN the Garin Tzabar program visit ANU: The Museum of the Jewish People.

The morals and values of lone soldiers in the IDF should inspire us all

History

DEGANIA ALEF in 2008. The second child born on the kibbutz was to become Israeli general and politician Moshe Dayan.

This week in Jewish history: UN votes in favor of Israel, first kibbutz founded

By Steven Drucker

Jerusalem's Kiryat Menachem neighborhood.

Kiryat Menachem: The immigrants’ sanctuary in Jerusalem

By ALEX WINSTON

Science

Researchers used machine learning to analyze these unique features on cats’ faces in their study.

Literal copycats: Felines use facial mimicry to bond, study finds

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

DESERT VISTA.

Negev's ancient wine secrets reveal path to climate-resilient vineyards

By Raquel Guertzenstein Frohlich

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

( Illustrative) National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir over a backfrop of hostage photos

Ben-Gvir boasts of blocking Gaza hostage deal 'time and time again'

By ELIAV BREUER , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

America’s historians commit ‘historicide’

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