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Hezbollah commanders in the Radwan Force killed in the IDF September 20 strike on Beirut, September 21, 2024.

IDF confirms assassination of Ibrahim Aqil, names 15 Hezbollah commanders killed in strike

These Hezbollah commanders have been orchestrating attacks against Israel for years.

Ibrahim Aqil (illustrative)

Who is Ibrahim Aqil, target of Israel's Beirut strike?

WOULD WAR with Iran lead to Israel’s destruction, or does Israel have no choice but to attack?

Experts debate the urgency of striking Iran: Is time running out for Israel?

Civil Defense members work near the site of an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, September 20, 2024.

'The gloves are off': Beirut strike signals end of symmetry with Hezbollah, expert says

Breaking News

Gideon Sa'ar tells Netanyahu that he's uninterested in Defense Minister role

Home Front Command likely to issue new restrictions for whole country north of Haifa

IDF strikes Hezbollah targets in Lebanon

Top News

Demonstrators protest for a hostage release deal in Tel Aviv on September 21, 2024.

'The gov't has given up on them': Protesters gather calling to bring hostages home

By EVE YOUNG , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan attends a press conference at the US embassy in Beijing, China August 29, 2024.

Sullivan says Israel-Lebanon escalation worrying, justice served in strike on Hezbollah

IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip. September 21, 2024.

IDF confirms Beirut strike killed 16 Hezbollah commanders, Hezbollah rockets crash in North

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

IDF thwarts attempt by Gaza terrorists to loot aid truck

By JOANIE MARGULIES , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump raises his fist during a 'Fighting Anti-Semitism in America Event' with Dr. Miriam Adelson and Jewish leaders in Washington, US, September 19, 2024.

IAC highlights October 7 in opening night of summit dominated by Trump

By HANNAH SARISOHN

Israel-Hamas War

A member of a rescue team speaks to a man as rescue teams work to extinguish flames on a house following a rocket attack from Lebanon, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, in northern Israel, September 21, 2024.

Hezbollah rockets hit house, crash on Highway 89 near Safed

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , AVI ASHKENAZI , DR. ITAY GAL

Fire near Yaara in the northern Galilee started by a Hezbollah rocket on September 12, 2024.

Fires ignited in northern Israel by Hezbollah rockets, IDF strikes terrorist targets in Lebanon

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

ILLUSTRATION - MENA collage - from top left clockwise Bar-On, Bichara, Otaibi, El-Haite.

'We must coexist': MENA2050 build peace in the Middle through shared vision

IDF soldier operating in the Gaza Strip on September 21, 2024.

IDF eliminates Hamas tech expert Muhammad Mansour

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Rescuers work to recover the body of a Palestinian girl from under the rubble of a house hit in an Israeli strike, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City September 19, 2024.

IAF strikes Hamas command center embedded in Gaza City school

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Hot Opinion

Foiled plots and exploding pagers aside, the threat is far from over

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Will Trump's hatred of Taylor Swift be his downfall?

By DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD

A Bnei Menashe soldier died for Israel, but the state won't let his family make aliyah

By MICHAEL FREUND

Canada’s betrayal of Israel: 'Irresponsible and shameful'

By ALAN BAKER

‘To resist the academic intifada’: Letters to my students on defending the Zionist dream

By GIL TROY

Israel News

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in front of a fire cause by Hezbollah rockets.

Netanyahu firm on new phase of Hezbollah war as UN warns of catastrophe

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Macron and Netanyahu (illustrative).

Macron to Netanyahu: You are pushing the region into war

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israel expels British Jewish activist who tried to immigrate under Law of Return

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA

International Criminal Court, The Hague

Israel challenges ICC jurisdiction, submits objection to arrest warrants

STUDENTS PARTICIPATE in Chabad on Campus Israel’s day of solidarity and volunteering with Gaza area communities, visiting the Nova festival site.

Chabad on Campus in Israel: Lending a helping hand to students seeking their Jewish identity

By ALAN ROSENBAUM

Analysis and Features

IGAL HECHT films at the car graveyard, just off Road 232.

'The Killing Roads': Igal Hecht's new documentary on Oct. 7 massacre

Eylon Levy, spokesman for the Israeli Government

Eylon Levy to 'Post': It was a 'mistake' not to focus on Hezbollah in messaging at start of war

By HANNAH SARISOHN

PM Netanyahu's advisor to Arab media: 'Previous red lines with Hezbollah no longer exist'

By MAARIV ONLINE

Arab states see Hezbollah’s deterrence weaken as Israel’s returns

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Chaim Deri, standing in front of his son Aviad’s grave, looks over to the graves of three of his comrades killed with him.

Four fallen sons: The stories of IDF soldiers killed in action

By NATAN ROTHSTEIN

Ono Conversation Corner

BANK HAPOALIM GATEWAY

Real Estate Listings

Sixth-grade volunteers joyfully thread the cards with yellow ribbons and tie them to the bears in honor of the children of hostage families, soldiers, evacuees, and first responders who will receive them.

Oct7KIDS: A nonprofit helping kids manage emotions amid wartime trauma

By YESHARA GOLD

Israel, US to innovate clean energy technologies under renewed bipartisan legislation

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Trekker wheelchairs are seen being used on a hike in Jerusalem.

This is how wheelchair-bound ex-soldiers can still hike in Israel

Mlamdovsky Somech (right) and Shmilo (left): “We’re adjusting the world for the new battlefield.”

Generative AI takes center stage in the fight against hate: Insights from the ‘Hack the Hate’

By RONNIE ROSENMAN

Market Data

Middle East

The remains of the destruction caused by Hamas terrorists when they infiltrated Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023

Reporter's Notebook: October 7 and the hopelessness that followed

Plane flies as smoke rises from Beirut southern suburbs, Lebanon, September 20, 2024 (illustration).

Hezbollah confirms Radwan Force chief Ibrahim Aqil killed by IDF strike in Beirut

By SAM HALPERN , YONAH JEREMY BOB

Hezbollah reports Ahmad Wahabi among 14 senior Hezbollah terrorists killed in Beirut strike

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

MAY 13: A woman holds a photo of Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Hezbollah pior the Hezbollah Political Party Rally to commemorate the anniversary of Badreddine death on May 13, 2022 in Baalbek in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.

Aqil and Shukr eliminated: Who remains in Israel's crosshairs?

IN BEIRUT’S suburbs on October 7, a woman distributes sweets, celebrating Hamas’s attack on Israel from Gaza. Israelis are not expressing glee following this week’s attacks on Hezbollah, just a sense of comeuppance, vindication, and relief, the writer asserts.

It is perfectly okay to smirk at the humiliation of Hezbollah

By DAVID M. WEINBERG

World News

The BBC offices (Illustrative).

BBC is still actively employing Hamas members, Trevor Asserson says

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

BBC New Broadcasting House in London.

BBC bias on Israel: How did the UK broadcaster lose impartiality?

By NEVILLE TELLER

Protesters embrace as they leave a pro-Palestinian student encampment at the University of Toronto after an Ontario judge ordered pro-Palestinian protesters to leave their two-month-old encampment, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 3, 2024.

Toronto students forced to wear ‘Colonizers’ shirts at anti-Israel protest

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

(Illustrative) A pager device and a crowd in Lebanon near a site where Hezbollah members' pager devices were attacked.

Hungarian intelligence agency interviewed CEO linked to exploding Hezbollah pagers

PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG with Edi Rama, the prime minister of Albania.

Herzog visits Albania honoring WWII heroes who saved Jews from the Holocaust

Antisemitism / BDS

AS OF September 2024, 42 countries have signed the Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism that Dr. Deborah Lipstadt, the US State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, was instrumental in creating.

‘We can’t afford to be silent': US antisemitism envoy tells 'Post'

By DARCIE GRUNBLATT

Protesters gather at a main entrance in front of Columbia University during convocation, in New York City, US, August 25, 2024

Columbia's Armstrong apology for Pro-Palestinian action draws Jewish criticism

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

An authors’ panel at an Albany book festival Saturday has been canceled after organizers said two panelists refused to share a stage with the “Zionist” moderator, author Elisa Albert, who is Jewish.

Albany Book Festival cancels panel with Jewish moderator, citing ‘impasse’ over her Zionism

By JACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA

PROTESTERS GATHER behind barricades to protect an encampment in support of Palestinians in Gaza, at the University of Washington in Seattle, this week, as a pro-Israel rally march took place nearby.

Massive increase in anti-Israel activity on campuses, ADL report highlights

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a presidential debate with Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris hosted by ABC in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 10, 2024

Donald Trump targets Kamala Harris again in latest initiative against antisemitism

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

Environment & Climate Change

A man stands next to submerged vehicles during flooding yesterday in Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland/

Central Europe braces for further flooding 'apocalypse' as death toll rises

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Aerial panoramic landscape view of a beautiful rocky shore on Pacific Coast. Taken in Saxe Point Park, Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. (illustrative)

Magnitude 6.5 quake strikes off British Columbia, Canada, USGS says

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , REUTERS

Haiti Prime Minister Garry Conille looks on, as an injured victim who was evacuated to receive medical care following a fuel truck explosion exits a helicopter, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, September 14, 2024.

Haiti fuel truck blast kills 24, survivors suffer severe burns

By REUTERS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israel's Iron Dome intercepts Hezbollah rockets fired over northern Israel. August 25, 2024.

Fire erupts in Biriya forest after rocket barrage to Israel's North

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

An Israeli self-propelled Howitzer artillery gun fires towards the Gaza Strip from a position close to the border on November 23, 2023 in southern Israel.

Israel's scorched earth tactics aim to paralyze Hezbollah in Lebanon

By MAARIV ONLINE

JPost Spotlight

NAOMI OREN: FROM SIBERIA TO KIBBUTZ GADOT, 2003

Naomi Oren: A journey from Siberia to Israel

The current war has done nothing to diminish Naomi’s love for Israel. “If anything, it has made me more patriotic,” she says. “This is my home, and I am here for better and for worse.

MIRI ZOHAR (right) stars in ‘Chilbot’ with Maya Landsman.

Cameri Theater celebrates 80th anniversary with plans for new production season

Dvir Benedek to play the lead role in ‘The Whale’ • ‘Rules for Living’ by Sam Holcroft will be offered in an adaptation by Erez Drigues

PROTESTING OUTSIDE Istanbul’s US Consulate in Jan. 2020, after IRGC Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike outside Baghdad Airport earlier that month.

Voices from the Arab press: If this isn’t a war, what exactly is it?

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

ALEX DANCYG

Remembering Alex Dancyg: A bridge between Poland and Israel, killed by Hamas

Alex Dancyg was a man deeply committed to peace, yet tragically his life came to an end as a Hamas hostage.

Israel Real Estate

MOMA TEL AVIV project by Hagag Group

The new opportunity: Tel Aviv's prestigious heart expands towards Florentin

By OFER PETERSBURG

Rising demand: Approximately 70,000 unsold apartments remain on the supply shelf

By OFER PETERSBURG

Towers and buildings in downtown Tel Aviv

A year later: Sharp increase in apartment sales last July

By OFER PETERSBURG

Construction Site.

A major step towards shortening Israel's housing construction process

By OFER PETERSBURG

Ramat Gan and Givatayim, an Aerial View

Maybe also in your city: 4,000 new apartments approved in Gush Dan

By OFER PETERSBURG

Christian World

President of Samaritan’s Purse, Reverend Franklin Graham, donates ambulances to Magen David Adom

Evangelical leader donates 28 armored ambulances, including in memory of Hersh Goldberg-Polin

"The people of Israel are indebted to this great man and organization.”

Pope Francis looks on from a balcony, on the day he delivers his "Urbi et Orbi" (To the city and the world) message at St. Peter's Square, on Easter Sunday, at the Vatican March 31, 2024.

Pope Francis: 'I stand with Rachel Goldberg-Polin during this time'

He called for the end of the conflict in Palestine and Israel to cease, the end of violence, and the end of hatred.

Pope Francis reacts during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 20, 2024.

Pope decries Gazan deaths, criticizes both US candidates aboard flight

The pontiff also expressed doubt that either Israel or Hamas, now at war for eleven months, were seeking to end the conflict.

(L-R): Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are seen ahead of the presidential debate (illustrative)

Trump dominates white Christian vote, while Harris ahead with other religious groups - poll

A new survey reveals a stark religious divide in the 2024 presidential race, with white Christians favoring Trump and other groups backing Harris, as economy and immigration emerge as critical issues.

Health & Wellness

Corona outbreak in China

Q&A: New XEC coronavirus variant spreads worldwide

By DR. ITAY GAL

Caption correction (Left to right): Doctoral student Johanna Zerbib & Prof. Uri Ben-David

Israeli study uncovers cancer cell findings that may advance treatment for the disease

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A program for youth at risk supported by KKL-JNF.

October 7 and the war in Gaza severely impact Israel’s youth at risk. KKL-JNF is helping

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Wolt drivers learn first aid from MDA

Meals and CPR on wheels: MDA trains Wolt drivers in life-saving first aid

SOMITE AI FOUNDERS

FDA backs Somite.ai's new drug for rare children's muscle disease

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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MDA Heroes

Magen David Adom Ambulance

'A severely wounded soldier asked me to say the Shema with him'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Noam and Noa treat Naama after she was wounded at the Nova festival

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Conferences

Top 50 gala

50 Most Influential Jews

The Jerusalem Post Toronto Summit 2024

The Jerusalem Post Takes on Toronto, Canada

Archaeology

An exhibit shows the life of a neanderthal family in a cave in the new Neanderthal Museum in the northern town of Krapina February 25, 2010.

New Neanderthal lineage discovered in France

The stone seal found in Jerusalem.

Rare archaeological stone seal uncovered in Jerusalem

US Politics

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) holds up a sign as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) holds up a sign as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress on July 24.

US lawmaker Rashida Tlaib condemns cartoon showing her with exploding pager

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL nominee and former US president Donald Trump attends a rally last week. Earlier this month, he told the Republican Jewish Coalition that if Kamala Harris were to win the election, Israel would cease to exist.

Rhetoric with substance: What Trump, Netanyahu deliver that Harris does not

By ROBERT HERSOWITZ

Diaspora

Los Angeles, United States. Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi, activist, advocate, and oldest son of the last Shah of Iran, gives a speech at "Live For Liberty", a benefit concert in support of the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement in Iran.

Pahlavi: Israel can't just react, it's time to act against Iran’s proxies

By HANNAH SARISOHN

US President Joe Biden looks on during his visit at the Chavis Community Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, US, March 26, 2024. 'There is one ‘righteous man in his generation’ – Biden is the Noah of our story, contributing from his experience to our doctrine of poverty, fundamentalism, and terror,”

Biden: Northern Israelis, southern Lebanese must be able to return home safely

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Judaism

FRANCE’S PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron speaks during a music festival in the courtyard of the Élysée presidential palace in Paris, on Friday. Macron has opened a Pandora’s box that leaves French citizens disoriented, worried, and angry, says the writer.

WJC's Lauder, France's Macron discuss Jewish community in Paris meeting

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Shabbat candles

Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel and the US

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Food

THE ASO SALON in Jerusalem

Aso Salon: Elegance, creativity, feel at home

By YONATAN VERSTANDIG

300 GRAM – worth the trip.

300 Gram: A meaty haven relocated near Acre

By GLORIA DEUTSCH

Culture

NUREMBERG TRIALS: The judges’ bench at the International Military Tribunal in Allied-occupied Germany c. 1945-1946.

'Hitler's People': Pathological personalities in a morally twisted universe

By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER

'Truck in the Gaza border area'

Jerusalem Highlights: September 20-27

By HAGAY HACOHEN

Travel

Jewish men in the street during Tikkun HaKlali near the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, on eve of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, September 15, 2023.

'He who travels puts himself at risk': Rabbi, Ukrainian officials warn of annual Uman pilgrimage

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

ISRAEL RAILWAYS engineer Ariella Wolfson: ‘Everything needs to be inspected and checked.

Keeping eyes on the track: Israel Railways engineer Ariella Wolfson is dedicated to ensuring safety

By ALAN ROSENBAUM

Podcasts

Just one of several images depicting a bygone age in 2 Okna Cafe

Krakow's Jewish Culture Festival is so much more than a Yiddle with a fiddle

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

South Africa's Chief Rabbi, Warren Goldstein

SA Chief Rabbi: Ceasefire with Hamas dangerous, urges unconditional surrender and hostage release

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Aliyah

Alberto Shemaria presenting a project.

Aliyah made easy: Meet the company making Israeli real estate easy for Diaspora Jews

By MICHAEL STARR , EVE YOUNG

MOURNING SGT. GIDEON HANGHAL at his funeral on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl, Sept. 12.

A Bnei Menashe soldier died for Israel, but the state won't let his family make aliyah

By MICHAEL FREUND

JPost Shopping

The Best Draining Soap Dishes on Amazon

By JESSICA SCHOEMAN

Best King Size Bed Frames Review

By JESSICA SCHOEMAN

Science

Mideast: NASA satellite imagery shows how the Middle East has become a major hotspot for loss of groundwater in recent years.

Israel Meteorological Service to name upcoming storms after hostages

The winners of the third annual hackathon at The Afeka Academic College of Engineering in Tel Aviv held in conjunction with Magen David Adom. September 17, 2024.

Amid war: Afeka college holds third hackathon on emergency medical care

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Finance

Illustrative photo of Israeli money

Doing business in Israel: How to make money and keep most of it

Vesey Ventures founders Lindsay Fitzgerald, Dana Eli-Lorch, Julia Huang.

Vesey Ventures launches $78m fund, highlighting power of well-connected investor team

OMG

An F-35 Adir from the 140th squadron takes part in an Israeli air force air show during the graduation ceremony for soldiers who have completed the IAF Flight Course, at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert, June 29, 2023.

With little fanfare, IDF pulls off 2nd largest official attack on Hezbollah of year

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Conceptual image of war between Israel and Iran using chess pieces and national flags

Iran, Hezbollah, and allies amplify threats following Beirut strike

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

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