Yitzhak Rabin

This week in Jewish history: The SS Exodus, Tisha B’Av, and Nobel pioneers

From the destruction of the Temples to Nobel Prize breakthroughs, the coming weeks mark defining moments of Jewish loss, resilience and achievement.

|BySTEVEN DRUCKER
‘SS EXODUS,’ now derelict, in Haifa Port, 1952.
UGANDAN PRESIDENT Idi Amin wanted the world to see a mediator. The Israeli archive records the week when that mask began to slip.

The dictator in the terminal: Idi Amin and the Entebbe hostage crisis, 50 years on

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: Half a century after one of the most daring Israeli rescue operations, what were Ugandan President Idi Amin's movements and thoughts?

|ByALEX WINSTON
A police officer clears the way for rescued Air France hostages arriving in Tel Aviv after returning from Entebbe

State Archives releases thousands of documents for Entebbe rescue's 50th anniversary

Alongside previously released materials, the State Archives is publishing in full the files related to the Entebbe operation, some of which had already been partially disclosed.

|ByMOSHE COHEN
Thai ambassador to Israel, Boonyarit Vichienpuntu, in front of the elephants at Jerusalem’s Tisch Family Zoological Gardens. June 4, 2026.

Elephant diplomacy: Ambassador marks mark 72 years of Thai-Israeli relations with zoo visit

“The Thai elephant is very important, they are in the heart of Thai people. They are the symbols of living diplomacy, the good relations between Thailand and Israel,” Vichienpuntu said.

|BySAM HALPERN, MATHILDA HELLER

Being silent and listening: A leadership skill no one talks about - opinion

Many great leaders knew that the willingness to be silent long enough to hear something new makes all the difference.

AUGUST 27, 2025ByLOUIS LIBIN, MICHAEL J. SALAMON
AN ALTERCATION breaks out in the Knesset plenum during a debate earlier this year. The best leaders don’t measure themselves by how much they say, but by what happens when they speak, and what they’ve made room for others to say, the writers argue.

To understand Israel's collapse, we must look at who Netanyahu surrounds himself with - opinion

In Israel, the quality of a leader’s inner circle is a matter of survival. The Prime Minister’s Office's current lack of a permanent director-general is a key weakness.

AUGUST 3, 2025ByTOVA HERZL
Then-alternate prime minister Naftali Bennett and then-finance minister Avigdor Liberman attend a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem in 2022. They have each served as an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; now, they both want to replace him, the writer notes.

This week in Jewish history: Israel and Jordan end state of enmity

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

JULY 26, 2025BySTEVEN DRUCKER
THEN-PRIME MINISTER Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan’s King Hussein shake hands, as then-US president Bill Clinton applauds, at the peace treaty signing ceremony at the border between the two countries, in 1994.

Lessons from Rabin to Netanyahu: Political assassinations destroy democracies - editorial

We must choose a different path. One of principled dissent, not destruction. Of passionate disagreement, not dehumanization.

JULY 25, 2025ByJPOST EDITORIAL
THEN-PRIME MINISTER Yitzhak Rabin and then-foreign minister Shimon Peres attend a Labor Party meeting in 1993. Rabin had been kept in the dark by Peres about the talks in Oslo, the writer asserts.

Israel strikes Iran: Strategic success or start of an uncertain future? - opinion

We have no idea what awaits us in the next few weeks or months.

JUNE 16, 2025BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Israel Katz attend a Plenum session of the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, in Jerusalem, June 11, 2025.

The 'Post' looks back on search for Sgt.-Maj. Tzvi Feldman

Feldman was initially declared as one of three soldiers declared missing in action in 1984.

MAY 12, 2025ByJOANIE MARGULIES
The headline that ran on May 6, 1984 announcing that Tzvi Feldman was one of three soldiers declared missing in action.

The blessing and burden of bearing first witness to Jewish history

How can Jewish journalists turn away the call of history and simultaneously bear the weight of what they must report?

DECEMBER 27, 2024ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
A portrait of the writer by sketch artist Emily Goff.

October 7 gave Netanyahu's 'fragile' government a lifeline, Bill Clinton suggests

Clinton also defended the possibility of a future Jewish president of the United States.

DECEMBER 7, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Illustrative image of former US president Bill Clinton.

Let's cool it and stop fanning the flames of conflict - editorial

Given our long history, we Jews have a short memory. Baseless hatred resulted in the destruction of the Temple, and the same internecine strife ended with Rabin’s assassination.

NOVEMBER 18, 2024ByJPOST EDITORIAL
PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog and his wife, Michal, stand at the graves of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and his wife, Leah, on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem this week, marking the 29th anniversary of Rabin’s assassination when he served as prime minister.

Reflecting on Israel's future 29 years after the Rabin assassination - opinion

Now, 29 years after that horrid assassination, amid a battle for the Jewish democratic image of Israeli society – our obligation as educators is to be an example for our students.

NOVEMBER 17, 2024ByOFEK MEIR
PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog and his wife, Michal, stand at the graves of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and his wife, Leah, on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem this week, marking the 29th anniversary of Rabin’s assassination when he served as prime minister.