Editor notes

Editor's Notes: Israel just met the America that comes after Trump - comment

Here is a bet you can hold me to. The respect from the US lasts. The protection that used to come with it does not, and it gets tested before the year is out, probably in Lebanon.

US VICE President JD Vance and President Donald Trump listen to Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House, April 23, 2026, during an earlier round of talks. Trump leads now; Vance and Rubio are next. Israel was in the room as an ambassador, not a principal.
DF armored forces at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza. January 01, 2024.

Editor's Notes: High Court ruling on women in tanks deepens religious divide in IDF - comment

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu give thumbs-up at the White House in Washington, DC, US, September 29, 2025.

US Jews are realizing that Netanyahu can handle war better than Trump can - comment

US President Donald Trump and Yakir Gabay.

Editor's Notes: Who is Yakir Gabay, the billionaire on Trump's Gaza Board of Peace?


JPost Editorial: Trump’s vision of peace

Will Palestinian leaders take Trump’s advice and stop glorifying terrorists?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump at Ben Gurion International Airport

JPost Editorial: Triumph of debate

The packed day brought into focus the fact that Israel and American Jewry don’t always see eye to eye.

The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference

Editor's Notes: A war or an operation?

It will be interesting to see what the courts decide on this issue, mostly because Israel itself had trouble deciding what to call the fighting through the summer of 2014.

IDF FORCES operate inside the Gaza Strip during Operation Protective Edge

The cost of freedom on Israel's 69th birthday

There was a time not too long ago when we knew what it meant to be helpless.

Mount Herzl military cemetery

Editor's Notes: Why we are hosting Sebastian Gorka

The role of a newspaper is not to shy away from tough issues. It is to embrace them.

Sebastian Gorka

Is Tikkun Olam the right Jewish national narrative?

Tikkun olam is an important piece of our national story, but we should not forget the core of the Jewish people’s narrative – an ancient nation that returned to its historic homeland.

Volunteers giving back to the community on Good Deeds Day

JPost Editorial: Construction safety

Contractors resist change, claiming that strengthening safety measures on building sites would cut into their bottom line.

A laborer works on an apartment building under construction in the Har Homa quarter in Jerusalem

Why can't Israel's PM say 'God bless Israel'?

Politics need to be stripped of religion. When that happens, people will be able to enjoy the basic rights every democracy is meant to provide its citizens.

US President Donald Trump.

Politics of war

Is it realistic to expect the security cabinet to function more effectively, given the current system of political rule in Israel?

The sun sets over the northern Gaza Strip as seen from the Israeli border, Israel August 23, 2016

JPost Editorial: Pollard’s time

We are asking Obama to consider one more commutation – that of Jonathan Pollard.

Jonathan and Esther Pollard