Smoke rises from a building after it was destroyed by Israeli air strikes amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence, in Gaza May 11, 2021

Israeli Air Force strikes Gaza Strip in response to incendiary balloons

BREAKING NEWS

Syrian air defense strikes down Israeli missiles - report

IDF attacks targets in Gaza after incendiary balloon attacks - report

Coalition votes to back opposition bill

10 killed, 45 injured in a bus crash in Croatia

Israeli windsurfers Spychakov, Cohen both place 5th after 3 races

IDF helicopter performs emergency landing in West Bank

Gantz nominates Gil Pinchas to IDF economic advisor to chief of staff

Israeli Judoka Baruch Shmailov loses in bronze medal fight

Shira Isakov attempted murder trial verdict expected in August - report

Coronavirus in the IDF: 265 active cases, 539 in quarantine

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the World Holocaust Forum marking 75 years since the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre in Jerusalem January 23, 2020

Israeli government faces major diplomatic tests from Russia - analysis

Heart transplant patient gets Pfizer booster shot at Sheba Medical Center.

Who needs a COVID booster? Israel to kick off study to find out

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

Health care workers take test samples of Israelis in a drive through complex to check if they have been infected with the Coronavirus, in Modi'in, on July 21, 2021.

Coronavirus in Israel: Number of serious patients nears 100

By ROSSELLA TERCATIN

Top News

A health worker, wearing a protective suit and a face mask, administers a nasal swab to a patient in a temporary testing site for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Zenith Arena in Lille, France, October 26, 2020

Unvaccinated COVID patients likelier to suffer serious symptoms - ministry

By ROSSELLA TERCATIN

This undated transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, also known as novel coronavirus, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus parti

New coronavirus variant under investigation in the UK

A MAN takes a picture of himself receiving a coronavirus vaccine at a Meuhedet Health Fund center in Jerusalem this week.

Is Israel or the UK right when it comes to COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness?

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

Israeli student, MFA employee investigated for taking trip to Iran

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

THE WINNER of Iran’s presidential election, Ebrahim Raisi, looks on at a polling station in Iran this past Friday

Five major changes to the Iran standoff

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Middle East

Taliban chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (front) leaves after peace talks with Afghan senior politicians in Moscow, Russia May 30, 2019

Afghan beheaded by Taliban for brief stint as US Army translator - report

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

EU representatives aboard an Israeli Navy ship.

Court: PLO must pay ship hijacking victims nearly 1 m.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

PEOPLE GATHER at a Hamas-sponsored anti-Israel rally in Gaza last month.

Palestinians accuse Hamas of storing weapons in residential areas

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Israel officially launches direct flights to Morocco

King of Jordan Abdullah II and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

Jordan's King Abdullah II confirms he met with Gantz, Bennett

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Analysis and Features

Attack in Syria on August 25, 2019.

Will Russia try to close Syrian airspace to further Israeli airstrikes?

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

TSAFRIR ON horseback, northern Iraq mountains, 1974

A former senior Mossad officer looks back on his career

By JONATHAN SPYER

Prof. Steven Weinberg.

Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg, celebrated scientific mind, dies, 88

Great Pyramid-sized asteroid to fly close to Earth

Car pollution

World natural resources may run out by 2040 - study

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Tokyo Olympics 2020

AVISHAG SEMBERG, who won a Taekwondo bronze medal in Tokyo on Saturday, speaks to the Israeli media on a Zoom conference Sunday morning.

A perfect podium surprise for Israel’s Avishag Semberg - comment

By JOSHUA HALICKMAN

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Taekwondo - Women's Flyweight - 49kg - Medal Ceremony - Makuhari Messe Hall A, Chiba, Japan - July 24, 2021. Avishag Samberg of Israel celebrates winning bronze

Olympics: Israeli Avishag Semberg wins bronze in taekwondo

By MAARIV ONLINE , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

ISRAELI GYMNAST Lihie Raz outdid expectations on Sunday in the artistic gymnastic competition. While she didn't advance, she recorded impressive performances in the floor exercise, the balance beam and the uneven bars.

Shmailov just misses another judo bronze • Gorbenko advances in pool

By JERUSALEM POST SPORTS STAFF

Israeli cyclist Omer Shapira loses out on bronze during final stretch

By YANIV TOCHMAN/MA'ARIV ONLINE

Jul 24, 2021; Tokyo, Japan; Javad Foroughi celebrates winning the gold medal in the 10m Air Pistol Men's Final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Summer Games at Asaka Shooting Range

Iranians blast Olympics for praising IRGC ‘terrorist’ who won gold medal

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

Hot Opinion

For Israel, Olympics always carry extra emotional baggage - editorial

BY JPOST EDITORIAL

What is the State of Israel's diplomacy? - opinion

My Word: Between Ben & Jerry’s and ‘Ahed’s Knee’

BY LIAT COLLINS

It’s bad for Israel when the US has a dim view of itself - opinion

Has the IDF lost the willingness to fight? - opinion

BY HILLEL FRISCH

JPost Spotlight

Photographer and artist Noa Grayevsky.

Noa on the move: From Tel Aviv, to the White House and then New York

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Ben & Jerry's ice creams on sale at a shop in Jerusalem on July 19, 2021.

Israeli NGO to scoop up Ben & Jerry's West Bank trademark to protest boycott

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Jackie Mason

Seeing Jackie Mason was seeing a genius at work

By LARRY WEINBERG

Jackie Mason doing stand-up at one of his highly acclaimed international performances.

Jewish standup comedian Jackie Mason passes away at 93

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , JOE ERWIN , BILL SANDERSON/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/TNS

Israel News

The Israeli flag and the UAE flag seen outside the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange where UAE Ambassador to Israel Mohamed Al Khaja and Israeli President Isaac Herzog held an opening ceremony of the United Arab Emirates embassy in Tel Aviv, July 14, 2021.

Amir Hayek appointed Israel's first UAE envoy as pipeline deal stalls

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Benny Gantz

Why is Gantz prioritizing Knesset duties over the Defense Ministry?

COALITION CHAIRWOMAN Idit Silman speaks in the Knesset in Jerusalem on Monday.

Rotation, cannabis bills to highlight this week’s Knesset battles

Gov't unanimously approves 85% reduction of carbon emissions by 2050

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , REUTERS

United Hatzalah EMTs arrive at the scene of a drowning in Nahal Prat, April 5, 2021.

Seven Israelis drown in 24 hours during World Drowning Prevention Day

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

World News

Tucker Carlson on the Exhibit Floor at CPAC, 2010

Fox's Tucker Carlson mentioned in communications monitored by NSA - report

US SOLDIERS take cover near Tal Afar, Iraq, where Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster was in command in 2004.

Pro-Iran militias in Iraq warn US over withdrawal doublespeak

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Former Mujahideen hold weapons to support Afghan forces in their fight against Taliban, on the outskirts of Herat province, Afghanistan July 10, 2021.

US offers further air support to Afghan troops amid Taliban offensive

By REUTERS

Some Americans may need COVID-19 vaccine booster - Fauci

By REUTERS

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Boris Johnson receives a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine earlier this month.

Former UK nurse suggests pro-vaccine doctors face Nuremburg Trials

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Antisemitism / BDS

Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is seen speaking to European Union foreign ministers in Brussels, Belgium, on July 12, 2021.

Lapid blames failed Israeli PR for rise in antisemitism, Israel bashing

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Around 2,500 BDS protesters are seen flocking to the Port of Oakland, California, to stop a cargo ship operated by the Israeli-based ZIM company from unloading in protest of Operation Protective Edge, on August 16. 2014.

BDS: New York, New Jersey activists attempt block Israeli cargo ship

PROTESTERS BRANDISH anti-Israel signs outside the Durban Conference opening session, August 31, 2001.

Germany will boycott the Durban IV conference

By LAHAV HARKOV

Senior Polish Jewish official says restitution legislation ‘may be buried’

By JEREMY SHARON

Swastika found painted on the hood of BMW in Bristol, England on Yom Kippur.

Swastika drawn next to Jewish Canadian man's car

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Health

A technician collects swab samples for COVID-19, at a testing center run by the Tel Aviv municipality in cooperation with Tel haShomer hospital, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, on July 20, 2021.

Coronavirus in Israel: What do we know about the 143 hospitalized people?

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

Pills

Israel to become first in world to test Oravax oral COVID-19 vaccine

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

Science

Omran laying in the hospital

Shaare Zedek performs life saving surgery on 4-year-old boy

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A medical team that repaired a heart defect in a 38-year-old woman at Shaare Zedek Medical Center without implanting a foreign object in her body.

Cardiology breakthrough at Shaare Zedek: Heart defect repaired with stitch

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

JPost Tech

Boxes ready to be loaded onto a delivery truck move along a conveyor belt at the Amazon fulfilment centre in Baltimore

Ben Gurion University program to teach Amazon e-commerce

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

An information analyst works in front of a screen showing a near real-time map tracking cyber threats; California, December 29, 2014

Cyber tech company to secure Israel Water Authority facilities

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Archaeology

Sefunim Cave

Did a hermit king live in a medieval Anglo-Saxon cave?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Ushabti of Psusennes I.

Timna mines supplied Egypt with copper in biblical times, study suggests

By ROSSELLA TERCATIN

Diaspora

Torah scroll from synagogue of Biella (Piedmont), Museum of Italian Judaism and Holocaust.

Jewish scrolls and manuscripts stolen during Holocaust to be returned

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A man mourns at a memorial site created by neighbors in front of a partially collapsed residential building as the emergency crews continue the search and rescue operations for survivors, in Surfside, Florida, US. July 3, 2021

After the Surfside collapse, one Jewish family still waits for closure

By HOWARD COHEN / TNS

US Politics

Pints of Ben & Jerry's Ice cream sold inside the factory store (July 10, 2018)

Five states considering sanctions on Ben & Jerry’s after West Bank pullout

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

Former Mujahideen hold weapons to support Afghan forces in their fight against Taliban, on the outskirts of Herat province, Afghanistan July 10, 2021.

America may be creating a power vacuum from Somalia to Afghanistan

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Judaism

KASHRUT CERTIFICATION at a Jerusalem eatery – will the rabbinate’s monopoly be broken?

Kahana’s kashrut reforms get rabbinical backing

By JEREMY SHARON

Eduard Shyfrin reading a book at his home

Jewish businessman brings kabbalah and quantum physics to children

By ALAN ROSENBAUM

Culture

Iranian Olympic basketball team coach Mehran Shahintab (L) and Israeli born coach of the Czech Republic's basketball team Ronen Ginzburg are seen at the Iran-Czech Republic game at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, on July 25, 2021.

Olympics 2020: Israeli Czech basketball coach, Iranian coach shake hands

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , REUTERS

Person doing math homework

Israel wins 6 medals at International Math Olympiad, ranked 7th in world

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Food

Cafe Rimon

Jerusalem eats: Tasty breakfasts in the Holy City

FifoBread

Out for breakfast in Jerusalem

By GLORIA DEUTSCH

Travel

el al plane

Flight industry in danger of collapse

Members of the French National Assembly and Senate visit Israel's South to see the Iron Dome aerial defense system, Jul. 19, 2021.

Tour groups visit Israel as gov’t fails to send clear reopening message

By FELICE FRIEDSON/THE MEDIA LINE , ARON ROSENTHAL / THE MEDIA LINE

OMG

U.S. popstar Michael Jackson performs during his "HIStory World Tour" concert in Vienna, July 2, 1997.

UK sanctions Equatorial Guinea VP who bought Michael Jackson 'Bad' glove

By REUTERS

A general view of a Mobileye autonomous driving test vehicle, at the Mobileye headquarters in Jerusalem

WATCH: Israeli Intel Corp Mobileye tests self-driving cars in NYC

By REUTERS

Special Content

Robots in Prof Amir Shapiro’s lab at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Engage in Israel’s academic excellence

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Israel’s abortion alternative: Efrat saves Jewish babies

By HADASSAH BAY