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IDF SPOKESMAN Daniel Hagari speaks to the media, displaying an Iranian ballistic missile which was retrieved from the Dead Sea after Iran fired drones and missiles at Israel in April. The media must ask the tough questions, demand accountability, and avoid simply amplifying official narratives.

We must thank Hagari's resilience and voice in Israel's hardest days

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks with defense industry experts in Tehran, Iran, February 12, 2025

No negotiations before total Iranian nuclear rollback

By MARK DUBOWITZ , JACOB NAGEL

THEN-IDF deputy chief of staff Maj.-Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks at a ceremony in 2019. The primary mission of the incoming chief of staff is security-related, but it’s not his only mission, the writer argues.

The incoming chief of staff has many challenges he'll need to confront

By AMICHAI COHEN

AMERICAN AND ISRAELI flags fly during a demonstration in support of Israel at the US Capitol in 2002.

Stakes for Israel’s new ambassador to US have rarely been higher

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks, conceding 2024 U.S. presidential election to President-elect Donald Trump, at Howard University in Washington, U.S., November 6, 2024.

How Kamala Harris ended a political career with just one line

By GREGORY LYAKHOV

LEFT TO right: Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Doron Steinbrecher were released from captivity last week. Anyone with a heart was moved beyond words at their return home, but for the heartless genocidal Hamas barbarians who kidnapped them, human tragedy is the strategy, the writer asserts.

It isn't a hostage 'deal,' it's extortion of Israeli souls

By Michal Cotler-Wunsh

DEPUTY FOREIGN Minister Sharren Haskel with Australian Ambassador Dr. Ralph King at the Australia Day reception that she hosted.

Grapevine January 29, 2025: Eichmann trial on stage

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

THE BORDER fence cuts across the arid landscape. Looking north, Egypt and the Sinai Desert are to the left of the fence and Israel and the Negev Desert lie on its right.

Sinai is the answer: The bold plan to solve Gaza’s crisis

By YARON SCHWARTZ

American and Israeli Jews [Illustrative]

The world won't sympathize with Jews, even in our darkest hour

By SOPHIA TUPOLEV-LUZ

A FREED Palestinian prisoner holds a weapon as he is carried after his release by Israel as part of the hostage deal, in Khan Yunis, last Saturday. We face vile murderers who scorn human life, individuals who planned attacks and killed dozens, including infants, families, young men, and women, the

Hostages returning home brings a range of emotions for Israelis

By IDIT DRUYAN OHAYON

A freed Palestinian prisoner is carried by people after he was released by Israel as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, January 25, 2025.

The Hamas prisoner release is a justification for death penalty for terrorists

US SEN. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) speaks at a news conference at the US Capitol last year. His questions last week during the Senate confirmation hearing of Elise Stefanik as ambassador to the UN inadvertently challenged Israel’s right to exist, the writer argues.

The western assault on Judaism will have a lasting impact on Congress

JUSTICE ISAAC AMIT was lawfully chosen as president of the Supreme Court, as a majority of the members of the Judicial Selection Committee supported his selection as required by law, the writer states.

The minister who refuses to cooperate will cause the public to suffer

By GUY LURIE

Confirmation hearing for Homeland Security nominee Kristi Noem

Kristi Noem: Launching a new era of US Homeland security, a terrorist's worst nightmare - opinion

Aziz Salha with bloody hands during lynching in Ramallah in 2000.

Beware of symbols used by Hamas - comment

By EFRAIM ZUROFF

Einav Zangauker, mother of Gaza Hostage Matan Zangauker, and protesters mark Matan's 25th birthday and his second birthday in Hamas captivity, December 18, 2024.

A tale of two Knessets: unity or chaos?

By Tova Dorfman

A firefighter battles the fire in the Angeles National Forest near Mt. Wilson as the wildfires burn in the Los Angeles area, during the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, U.S. January 9, 2025.

Celebrating Shabbat in Los Angeles: Amid the fires, a still, small voice

By RABBI PAUL KIPNES / JTA

Paraguay's president Santiago Pena speaks at the Knesset. December 11, 2024.

Why Paraguay’s stand with Israel matters now more than ever

By Maram Stern