Jerusalem Report

Israel's overlooked challenge: Environmental damage from two years of war - from the editor

As the war winds down, Israel faces a quieter crisis – environmental damage from Gaza to the Dead Sea, alongside long-neglected ecological failures now demanding urgent attention

Visitors walk across salt formations along the receding shoreline of the Dead Sea, a stark sign of the region’s growing environmental crisis.
Hikers trek past a cavernous sinkhole on the shores of the Dead Sea near Ein Gedi. PremiumPremium

Into the sinkholes: How the Dead Sea’s collapse became a tourist draw

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Buried under the rubble: Gaza buried under 60 million tons of toxic war debris

An aerial view of the Kinneret. To the casual observer, the lake, also known as the Sea of Galilee, appears to be a rare environmental success story in an era of climate uncertainty. PremiumPremium

Israel’s freshwater balancing act: The Kinneret under strain


Happy(ish) New Year: Holocaust remembrance as warning in an age of resurgent antisemitism

A new year invites hope – but Holocaust Remembrance Day nears amid violent antisemitism. This issue looks back to warn: preserve names, memory, and truth.

As International Holocaust Remembrance Day approaches we ask whether the lessons of the past have taught us anything?

Yad Vashem races to preserve Holocaust artifacts as survivors dwindle

As the number of first-hand witnesses dwindles, artifacts from the Holocaust are being carefully collected and preserved to continue telling the story

The documents discovered by Peled’s daughter in Krakow before undergoing conservation work.

When centenarian survivors die, their lucid wartime memories go with them

Centenarian Holocaust survivors carry memories forged in adolescence; their passing marks the fading of a rare, irreplaceable perspectiv

Tova Ringer (center), a Holocaust survivor who passed away in September 2025 aged 102, won Israel’s annual Miss Holocaust Survivor beauty pageant in 2018 at age 93.

'If not us, then who?': Indian CEO pushes Holocaust awareness at home - interview

Meet the Indian business leader pushing for Holocaust awareness in his country of nearly 1.5 billion people.

Samir Khosla and his wife participate in the March of the Living last April.

Teaching the Holocaust in the Arab world requires confronting decades of miseducation - analysis

Denial, media incitement, and politicized education continue to block historical truth – and any path to coexistence

Children study in a school in Egypt. Children in the Arab world do not learn why millions of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust or why the experience continues to shape modern Israeli fears.

The last witnesses: Holocaust survivors confront rising antisemitism

They survived the Holocaust and spent decades warning the world. Now, from Jerusalem and Sydney, two women watch antisemitism return 

As survivors of the Holocaust begin to dwindle, two survivors confront rising antisemitism.

How Nazi propaganda became embedded in Arab political culture - opinion

From ‘Mein Kampf’ to Hamas apologetics, how generations in the Arab world are conditioned to deny Jewish suffering

Arab leaders gather at the Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Summit on October 13, 2025 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

Raised with survivors: A journalist's journey to uncover her family's past

‘The Jerusalem Post’s’ Greer Fay Cashman recalls growing up surrounded by Holocaust survivors and her visits to Poland with Israeli leaders.

Placards with hand written messages on them line train tracks during The International March Of The Living at Auschwitz- Birkenau.

One million Jews fled Arab countries. Their stories remain untold

Happy childhood memories endure alongside trauma, loss, and displacement for Jews driven from Arab countries

Jews from Iraq hold a demonstration in Tel Aviv against the hanging of members of their community in Baghdad in 1969.

From 'globalize the intifada' to Bondi: Holocaust distortion has deadly consequences - opinion

Holocaust terminology, once guarded by a collective moral responsibility, is now being ruthlessly co-opted and weaponized

A pro-Palestinian protester holds a ‘Globalize the intifada’ sign outside the United Nations in New York City in September 2025.