MATHILDA HELLER

Mathilda is the international affairs correspondent at The Jerusalem Post . She made aliyah five weeks before the war from rural England. After attending university, where she studied English and Spanish literature, she moved to South Korea and taught at a British School in Jeju. She spent five months working at the Prime Minister's Office international desk helping the hasbara effort in foreign languages before coming to the Post . In her free time she does martial arts, tutors, and writes. She lives in Tel Aviv, and speaks several languages.

Argentina's flag in Buenos Aires

Argentina records rise in antisemitism, with 62% of incidents online

 Members of the Azeri Jewish population.

Azerbaijan chief rabbi asks Knesset to reconsider recognition of Armenian Genocide - exclusive

A police vehicle stands near a cordon near the site of an explosion on Monday, in Monaco, June 30, 2026.

Ukrainian tycoon wounded in Monaco bombing is Jewish, active member of Dnipro community


Not calling Hamas terrorists in Nakba exhibit was ‘error,’ says Canada’s heritage minister

Canadian Heritage Minister Marc Miller stated that "not identifying Hamas as a terrorist organization is... a failure" and called for the alleged "error in curation" to be rectified.

(Illustrative) Palestinian members of al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement.

US House to vote on amendment to block $3.3 billion in annual military aid for Israel

Rep. Thomas Massie’s amendment would bar funds in the appropriations bill from being used for Israel and cut annual military financing.

 A view of the dome of the US Capitol building, during a vote in the US House of Representatives on a stopgap spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown that would otherwise begin October 1, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, September 19, 2025.

‘Anti-Zionist patrol’ in Thessaloniki sparks outrage from Greek Jewish community

The incident happened exactly 95 years after an antisemitic pogrom took place in the Campbell neighborhood of Kalamaria in the same city.

The left-wing anarchist Rouvikonas group organized the "anti-Zionist patrol" in Thessaloniki. June 30, 2026.

Defense attaché in Canada to return to Israel, will not be replaced, Defense Ministry tells 'Post'

The Defense Ministry said Ilan Or's withdrawal from the Ottawa Embassy is part of a global realignment of Israel's Defense Attaché network.

Israeli and Canadian flag graphic

Press watchdog CPJ reviewing Gaza casualty database over 'journalists' tied to Hamas, PIJ

A Meir Amit Center study from December found that 60% of individuals who identified as journalists and were killed in Gaza were members of or affiliated with terrorist organizations.

A journalist holds the blood-covered camera belonging to Palestinian photojournalist Mariam Dagga, a journalist who freelanced for AP since the start of the war and who was killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, during her funeral on August 25, 2025.

Israeli organization's 'Secular House' opens in Thailand as non-religious alternative to Chabad

The 'Secular House' is the brainchild of the Free Secular Movement, an Israeli activist organization that promotes secularism and the separation of religion and state in Israel.

'Secular House' in Thailand, an Israeli activist organization.

'Zero tolerance': Non-Jewish Canadian CEOs, politicians, professionals condemn rising antisemitism

"As a group of Canadian businesses and community leaders who are not Jewish, we ask colleagues to join us in condemning any act of antisemitism in this country," they wrote.

Buildings stand in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 2, 2026.

Man yells ‘f*** the Jews’ at Orthodox woman in upscale British supermarket chain

Although the Metropolitan Police have received the report and are continuing to investigate the incident, they're urging the victim to come forward for further questioning.

he Waitrose logo is displayed outside a branch of the supermarket retailer Waitrose on November 9, 2025.

Surge in Aliyah of young, skilled olim despite wartime challenges, 22,522 moved to Israel in 2025

The sharpest increase came from French Jewry, with a 51% rise in immigration, while immigration from the United States continued its upward trend, reaching 3,781 immigrants.

 New immigrants from USA and Canada arrive on a special " Aliyah Flight 2016" on behalf of Nefesh B'Nefesh organization, at Ben Gurion airport in central Israel on August 17, 2016.

‘I was low-hanging fruit’: IDF reservist targeted by UK legal group sees case collapse in court

LEGAL AFFAIRS: A British-Israeli reservist shares how an attempted prosecution was meant to create a legal precedent against Britons serving in the IDF, but ended in humiliation for the petitioners.

Pictured is an illustrative image of an IDF soldier.