MATHILDA HELLER

Mathilda is the Diaspora 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.


 JEAN-LUC MELENCHON, leader of French far-left La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), has never acknowledged the October 7 massacre by Hamas, says the writer.

French authorities launch investigation over party with ties to Islamist networks

A Palestinian child looks on as she sits in a vehicle, at the site of an overnight Israeli strike on a house, in Gaza City, August 26, 2025.

Gazan kids receiving UK medical treatment can stay for two years, receive public funds

British Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Lisa Nandy speaks at the Labour Party's annual conference in Liverpool, Britain, September 29, 2025.

Nandy warns British MPs against antisemitism during heated Commons row about Maccabi Tel Aviv ban


EU lawmakers urge halt to UNRWA funding over terror links

Lawmakers from 16 EU countries urged the bloc to stop funding UNRWA, citing ties to Hamas and a failure to uphold peace values.

A protest display against UNRWA seen in Jerusalem, March 18, 2024

US victims of Palestinian terror sue PLO over 'pay-for-slay' scheme

Families of slain and injured Americans, including Taylor Force’s relatives, filed a US lawsuit accusing the PLO of rewarding terrorists with monthly payments.

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump and PA President Mahmoud Abbas pose at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit last week. The absence of a firm message does not bode well for either Gaza’s rehabilitation or Saudi normalization, the writer argues.

Pro-Palestine students sue Northwestern University over ‘coercive’ antisemitism training

“Northwestern capitulated to pressure... by ramping up its repression of legitimate, non-discriminatory speech by students, faculty, and staff in solidarity with Palestinians,” the suit says.

SIGNS ARE displayed in front of Deering Meadow, at an encampment of pro-Palestinian activists at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in April 2024.

Hind Rajab Foundation's anti-Israeli dossier may have influenced Maccabi Tel Aviv UK fan ban

HRF said its recent report 'Game Over Israel: Sports Culture as a Cog in Genocide' had been shared with local police and security bodies in the UK just a few weeks prior.

 Maccabi Tel Aviv's Saied Abu Farchi celebrates scoring their first goal with teammates, Topola, Serbia, October 2, 2025.

Holocaust survivor and 'Librarian of Auschwitz' Dita Kraus dead at 96

In her 96 years Dita Kraus has been an artist, a librarian, a guide and an inspiration.

Dita Kraus 'Librarian of Auschwitz'

What is IHH, the Turkish proscribed terror group doing aid work in Gaza? - explainer

iHH, a Turkish relief agency banned in Israel since 2008 due to ties to terror groups, has entered Gaza to aid with humanitarian work.

Sudanese man, who fled the violence in his country, receives a bag of provisions from a representative of a Turkish aid group (IHH) during food distribution near the border between Sudan and Chad in Koufroun, Chad, May 7, 2023.

Holocaust survivor and member of group plot to kill six million Germans dead at 105

Yehuda 'Idek' Friedman, a Krakow-born Holocaust survivor and member of Nakam, has died at 105. He recounted the group's revenge plots in later interviews.

Yehuda "Idek" Friedman

UAE to build embassy in Herzliya after buying land for tens of millions of shekels - exclusive

The search began at the request of the Prime Minister's Office and was coordinated in conjunction with the Herzliya Municipality.

Herzliya Mayor Yariv Fisher

When terrorists get sob stories: Int'l media is whitewashing Palestinian prisoners - comment

Among the 250 prisoners released who were supposed to be serving life sentences were those who carried out lynchings, bombings, shootings, and stabbings.

A freed Palestinian prisoner is carried as he is greeted by his relatives and friends after he was released from an Israeli jail as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Ramallah, in the West Bank, October 13, 2025.

Despite Gaza ceasefire, tens of thousands of protesters flood Spanish cities, go on general strike

Tens of thousands of people flooded Spanish cities on Wednesday to demonstrate against Israel, with some of the more riotous protests ending in arrests.

Demonstrators clash with a riot police during a general strike called by Spanish unions in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in Barcelona, Spain, October 15, 2025