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Jerusalem Post's talented team of journalists provides insight into their work presented in the opinion section. This section highlights the beliefs and values that experienced writers who are witnessing the Middle East turmoil unfold. Their first hand encounters with world leaders have shaped their opinions and world views to be shared on this page.

 FLAMES AND smoke rise from the site of Israeli air strikes at the port of Hodeidah, Yemen, last week.

What will happen to the Houthis as tensions continue?

 SMOKE RISES from the site of Israeli air strikes in the port city of Hodeidah, Yemen, last week.

My Word: Israel faces double standards when defending itself

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress on Wednesday

Netanyahu, a speech isn't enough to fix a country

 Paris 2024 Olympics - Football - Men's Group D - Mali vs Israel - Parc des Princes, Paris, France - July 24, 2024. Israel players line up during the national anthems before the match.

Israel aims for Olympic glory in Paris amid high security and historic challenges

 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office yesterday.

Thanking President Joe Biden for his support of Israel

 Police officers in Bnei Brak, Israel use water cannons as haredi Orthodox Jewish men block a main highway to protest efforts to allow the state to draft Haredi yeshiva students into military service, June 2, 2024.

American Jews threatening to cut off Israeli haredim who don't draft is a mistake

By RABBI YOSIE LEVINE/JTA
 US Vice President Kamala Harris looks on as she visits the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, July 13, 2024.

Kamala Harris’s absence from Netanyahu’s Congressional address: A bad start

 Hostages who were abducted by Hamas on October 7 are escorted by the International Red Cross, as part of a hostages-prisoners swap with Israel on November 30. The Red Cross has been notably negligent in its mission, the writer charges.

The complexity of Israel's hostage predicament: balancing humanity and national security

 THE WRITER (seventh from right) meets with Christian leaders from Africa, at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem

A prayer for the future: Rachel weeps for her children - opinion

By YAKOV NAGEN
 An illustrative image of a nuclear explosion.

Risk of atomic Armageddon: US must restore military deterrence against Iran

 COUNSELORS POSE at Kfar Nardim, a therapeutic village that serves as a warm home for children and youth-at-risk, aged six-18.

Transforming Boarding School Counseling for Israel’s At-Risk Children - opinion

By NELLY GEVA
 Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald Trump stands with Senator J.D. Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, at an election rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, last weekend.

Assessing the impact of a second Trump presidency on US and Israel - opinion

By ILAN ALON
 Cyril Ramaphosa gestures on the day he takes the oath of office for his second term as South African president, at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, June 19, 2024.

Putin's mouthpiece, Iran's attack dog: ANC's terror ties are the tip of the iceberg

By LAWRENCE NOWOSENETZ
 The writer meets with President Isaac Herzog, then serving as Jewish Agency chairman, in 2020, holding a discussion on the subject of rabbinic heritage.

Navigating rabbinical ordination and leadership in Israel’s modern context - opinion

By ELI FRIEDMAN
 Galit Shohat-Ophir walks among researchers in a laboratory at the Bar-Ilan University, in Ramat Gan, Israel.

How Bar-Ilan University Plans to Use Its $260 Million donation for Growth and Tradition - opinion

By ARI ZIVOTOFSKY
 A student looks at his cellphone as he sits by the Mediterranean Sea after sunset in Tel Aviv, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

Where is home? The disconnect between being a Jew in Israel and abroad

Israel has one of the most technologically advanced dispatch systems for its fire, police and emergency medical services, says the writer.

Why Israel's advanced emergency dispatch system outperforms 911 - opinion

By Kurt Schwartz
Israel's Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara listens on as she attends a cabinet meeting at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem on June 5, 2024.

Assassination attempt on Trump raises alarms over Netanyahu's safety - opinion

By YARON SCHWARTZ
 THE ELIE Wiesel Living Archive.

Away from despair and toward hope: A conversation with Elie Wiesel’s student and friend

By ESTHER POSNER
 PEOPLE WAIT under a Star of David reading ‘Jude’ in Tel Aviv on Holocaust Remembrance Day, this year. The writer posits that we must define our identity as Jews through an understanding of who we are, not who the non-Jewish world wants us to be.

Why is Judaism so unique from all other religions?

 Ultra-orthodox Jews protest against being drafted into the IDF.

Haredim unwilling to draft are the new Zealots in Israel

By JONATHAN LIEBERMAN
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