Jerusalem post editor

Three years later, I still think about the stories we did not tell on October 7- comment

Why we chose Naama’s words for our October 7 cover, and why I still owe an apology to families who contacted us.

Houses in kibbutz Nir Oz, where residents where takedn hostage and later on murdered by Hamas terrorists in the October 7 massacre, southern Israel. September 30, 2025.
In Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, the interviewee imagines hearing four emboldened Musketeers cry out: ‘All for one, and one for all!’

Audrey Lynn Leinoff: From pinned down to pinpointed

Ilan Chaim

Remembering Ilan Chaim: A man who lived life to the fullest

IF A leader who thrives on attention can be nudged to keep doing the right thing for Israel, then a powerful front page is a small price to pay. Special ‘Jerusalem Post’ front pages from the past two years of war.

Editor's Notes: Why these covers helped push a moment we needed


Praying room

Just as free and open markets are a boon to economies, so too will a freer religious environment encourage more vibrant Jewish religious expression.

An ultra-orthodox Hassidic Jew is restrained by a Border Policeman as he screams against a group of Reform and Conservative rabbis holding prayers at the Western Wall

Anti-Semitism in Europe

“We are so used to Jews being killed because they are Jewish,” wrote Charlie Hebdo editor-in-chief Gerard Biard.

A French soldier secures the entrance to a Jewish school in Paris after the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher terrorist attacks last January

Deepening the divide

No conditions should be set for receiving basic rights such as equal funding for health, housing and education, or adequate law enforcement.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the scene of the shooting attack in Tel Aviv

Olmert’s fate

Once Olmert internalizes the verdict of the Supreme Court and expresses true remorse, he can begin to look toward the future.

Former PM Ehud Olmert

Needed: A new housing policy

These programs must all become part of a broader, macro-level housing policy with clear, quantitative goals.

Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in a settlement near Jerusalem

NGO transparency

The Israeli public is rightly concerned about the activities of left-wing NGOs that seek to undermine the very legitimacy of the State of Israel.

A woman reads testimonies during a gathering in Tel Aviv to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Israeli NGO "Breaking the Silence"

No kindness

By deciding to limit morality, ZAKA is already losing direction.

Zaka first responders Yossi Frankel (right) and Benzi Oring pose in front of one of the organization’s emergency vehicles

The Jewish Nakba

Palestinian propaganda juggernaut has persuaded world public opinion that the term “refugee” is synonymous with the term “Palestinian.”

Damascus Gate on Nakba Day (May 15)

Tacit alliances

Relations between Israel and the UAE have had their ups and downs over the years.

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi

Collateral damage

Haftom Zarhum, an Eritrean migrant, was shot by a guard and beaten by a mob during a terrorist attack at the Beersheba Central Bus Station last month.

Blood at the scene where terrorist was shot at the Beersheba central bus station on October 18, 2015