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Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani meets Qatari cadets during his visit to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Camberley, Britain, December 4, 2024.

Qatar’s Emir visits Syria in historic first meeting with interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa

By Rizik Alabi/The Media Line

EGYPT’S PRESIDENT Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah at a summit on the Gaza war, last month in Cairo: Given the repercussions for key actors including Egypt and Jordan, the potential of an international peace conference after the war should be explored, the writer maintains.

Arab leaders talk big on Palestine—but where’s the real support?

By JPOST EDITORIAL

US President Donald Trump takes oath on the day of his Presidential Inauguration at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, US, January 20, 2025.

President Trump: A new strategic era

By Ayelet Frish

Riding the waves of history: A divine plan in motion

By Mark Fish

PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG places a note in the Western Wall last Sunday, with a prayer for the well-being of the three hostages returning to freedom later in the day, the return of all hostages, military success, a recovery for all those injured, and unity.

Will Isaac Herzog be remembered among his historic family?

By TOVA HERZL

Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025.

Trump stirs curiosity online after not placing hand on Bible during oath

By REUTERS

FORMER US president Ronald Reagan is joined by his wife, former first lady Nancy Reagan, and daughter Maureen Reagan, in 1991, in Sacramento, California. In 2004, after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease, he died at the age of 93.

Should age or term limits be introduced?

By DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD

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

President Biden welcomes first great-grandchild

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin and US president Jimmy Carter deliver a speech at the White House, July 19, 1977

A look back at Jimmy Carter's complicated relationship with Israel

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Ken Stein, Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, at the Middle East Consultation at Emory University in November 1983

History gets Jimmy Carter wrong, both underrated and overrated

By Mark Z. Barabak/Los Angeles Times/TNS

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter is seen at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver

Jimmy Carter, former US president, has died at 100

Uruguay's President-elect Yamandu Orsi departs following a meeting with former President Jose "Pepe" Mujica, in Rincon del Cerro, on the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay November 25, 2024.

Uruguay elects a left-wing president who is not anti-Israel, a rarity in Latin America

By Juan Melamed/JTA

Bo, walks freely on the South Lawn of the White House on April 24, 2009 in Washington.

U.S. Presidents and their unforgettable pets: a short history

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

President Isaac Herzog sets up a sukkah at the President's Residence

In departure from tradition, Herzog fails to hold Sukkot open house

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

Marada Movement Leader Suleiman Frangieh sits with Hezbollah officials during condolences service for Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr, who was killed on Tuesday in an Israeli strike, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon August 2, 2024.

US wants to use Hezbollah's weakness to elect new Lebanese president

By Walla!

Isaac Herzog.

No. 14: Isaac Herzog: A president of the people

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

US PRESIDENT Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in July. US Jews and non-Jews have every right to prioritize US-Israel ties in deciding for whom to vote in this election, the writer maintains.

This is what pro-Israel Americans need from the next US president

By ALIZA PILICHOWSKI

US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during an event to mark the 'Bloody Sunday' anniversary, in Selma, Alabama, U.S., March 3, 2024.

Jewish Democratic group endorses Kamala Harris, commends Biden for ‘passing the torch’

By HANNAH SARISOHN