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‘THE TREES can teach us about embracing change, as they are always shedding their skin. Letting go of the old layers to make room for new growth.’

Passover: Universal lessons from the environment

By MICHAEL M. COHEN

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reviews armed forces during a graduation ceremony, in Tehran

Iran's fork in the road: Continuing its rhetoric of war or a regime change? - opinion

PROF. MOSHE KOPPEL, chairman of the Kohelet Policy Forum, has faced accusations of playing a significant role in pushing the attempted judicial overhaul which tore apart Israeli society, but reflects differently one year on.

Kohelet’s Moshe Koppel reflects on the judicial reforms a year later

By ELIAV BREUER

Demonstrators protest calling for the for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip, outside Hakirya Base in Tel Aviv, March 16, 2024.

Few Israelis believe government will last full term

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Attorney Gonen ben Yitzhak

Protest leader: Netanyahu is causing Israel to crumble

By 103FM

IRANIANS VOTE during the parliamentary election at a polling station in Tehran, on March 1.

Iran's take on democracy and the Iranians that refused to play along

By NEVILLE TELLER

Jerusalemites cast their ballots for the 2024 municipal elections, on February 27, 2024.

Second round of municipal election held in 35 cities

By ELIAV BREUER

WZO Vice Chairman Dr. Yizhar Hess

WZO bars candidates opposing a Jewish, democratic Israel

By MICHAEL STARR

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres attend a summit on climate resilience in Pakistan, months after deadly floods in the country, at the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, January 9, 2023.

Shehbaz Sharif wins Pakistan's top job for second time

By REUTERS

The writer, Aaron Reich, is seen with their cat, Medici (full name HaRav Medici di Cuddlebutt Reich) waiting to vote in Jerusalem for the municipal elections, on February 27, 2024.

De-meow-crat-ya: Taking my cat to vote in municipal elections

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters watch the general election results at a PTI office in Islamabad, Pakistan February 8, 2024.

US Representatives demand investigation of alleged Pakistani election fraud

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE

Workshops on Election Day at the Seven Stars Mall in Herzliya

Israelis reject authoritarianism, support representative democracy in latest poll

By Yuval Barnea

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israeli selects his ballot paper on the day of Israel's general election in a polling station in Jerusalem November 1, 2022.

Israel heads to wartime municipal election

By ELIAV BREUER

Nobel prize

UNRWA makes the Nobel Peace Prize nominations shortlist

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

An illustrative image of artificial intelligence.

Is journalism under existential threat from AI?

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

Islamabad skyline with Rawal Lake.

Concerns rise for journalistic freedoms in Pakistan after reporters summoned for defaming judiciary

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE

RALLYING IN support of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump last week, ahead of the New Hampshire primary.

'The Tyranny of the Minority': How US democracy is under threat - review

By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER

DAVID BEN-GURION reads the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948.

Can a unified Israel rise from the ashes of the Hamas war?

By YOHANAN PLESNER