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AMI AYALON: ‘What is expected from a warrior?’

Loyalty, leadership, and the law: Ex-security officials confront the Shin Bet crisis

By Gabriel Colodro/The Media Line

Hostage families call on US President Donald Trump to return their loves ones home from captivity, March 29, 2025.

Israel at war day 551: What's going on in Gaza, Lebanon, and Yemen?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

(Illustrative) US President Donald Trump over a backdrop of weapons.

Trump overrides Biden, approves $24M assault rifle deal for Israel Police

IDF soldiers seen operating in southern Syria, in pictures dated to March 2025

What happened on day 543 of the war?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A helicopter carrying released Israeli hostage, Agam Berger, a soldier who was seized from her army base in southern Israel during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, arrives at at Beilinson Schneider complex in Petah Tikva, Israel, January 30, 2025.

'We are entering a centuries-long War of Independence,' retired IDF general says

By DORON COHEN

Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser.

The man who called for action before Oct. 7 explains how to solve Gaza, Iran

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

INFOGRAPHIC: Timeline of October 7 early morning intelligence breakdown

Timeline breaks down Hamas’s October 7 invasion, Israel’s delayed response

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

IDF soldiers gather near the ceasefire line between Syria and Israel, in the Golan Heights, December 9, 2024

IDF reportedly offers southern Syria's Druze community job opportunities

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Jerusalem Post visited various spots near the border with Lebanon in order to see and hear from soldiers and northern residents how their lives have improved since the ceasefire, and whether they still feel safe after the IDF withdrawl

‘If we got rid of Hezbollah, we wouldn’t need five outposts,’ Kiryat Shmona Spokesman says

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Israeli military tanks are lined up on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza, February 9, 2025

IDF's withdrawal from key Gaza corridor signals shift in war's trajectory

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

‘THE HAREDI leadership argues that it is forbidden to draft yeshiva students whose Torah is their profession and that they defend the State of Israel through their studies.’

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox face arrest for draft evasion in IDF crackdown

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Hamas terrorists hand over four Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Gaza City, January 25, 2025

'Hamas will pay for breaching hostage deal,' military expert says

By Peled Arbeli , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Aviv Kohavi

Former IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi joins Israeli-Canadian capital fund AWZ Ventures

By Walla! , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

People gather outside an apartment building hit by an Israeli air strike in Beirut's Cola district, September 30, 2024. Two people were killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut on September 30, a Lebanese security source said

IDF strikes dozens of Hezbollah terror targets in Lebanon's Beqaa

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

WOULD WAR with Iran lead to Israel’s destruction, or does Israel have no choice but to attack?

Experts debate the urgency of striking Iran: Is time running out for Israel?

By Natan Galula

Protesters, mainly Houthi supporters, hold up posters of assassinated Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr, who was killed in an Israeli strike, as they attend a rally to show solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen August 9, 2024.

A phone call led Hezbollah's Fuad Shukr to his death, says Hezbollah official - WSJ

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Reservists in the north during Operation Swords of Iron

Israel ready to operate in Lebanon now, but both sides are fatiguing

By AVI ASHKENAZI

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the press at the port of Ashdod, in Ashdod, Israel, May 1, 2024.

US criticizes ICJ opinion that Israeli 'occupation' of Palestinian territories is illegal

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF