Yoaz Hendel

Yoaz Hendel: 'Israel must seize opportunity to defeat Hezbollah, assert control in Lebanon'

Reservist Party leader Yoaz Hendel tells the ‘Post’ that Israel must seize the "tectonic shift" in the Middle East to demilitarize Southern Lebanon and establish a permanent security buffer zone.

Reservist Party leader and former communications minister Yoaz Hendel serving in the IDF.
Yoaz Hendel, head of the Reservists’ Party, speaks during the party’s launch event ahead of the 2026 general elections, at Kibbutz Ma'ale HaHamisha near Jerusalem, November 19, 2025.

Bereaved family members chosen for Reservist Party leadership after internal elections

Former Minister Yoaz Hendel attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, January 15, 2026.

'Rafah Crossing opening paves way for Hamas to rebuild': Reservist Party leader tells 'Post'

Knesset members attend a plenum hearing, October 29, 2025; illustrative.

Despite turbulent week, demand for commission of inquiry, bloc map remain stable - poll


Cyber, communications chiefs: Telecom. industry must boost cyberdefenses

"Cyber has no borders, and therefore this kind of collaboration which we promote with the Communications Ministry has added value."

 Cyber attack

Hendel announces reform of ultra-Orthodox kosher phones market

The reform, which will go into effect on July 31, was approved by Minister Yoaz Hendel after a round of consultations in the Communications Ministry.

 KOSHER PHONES: Fiefdom of a sort?

Social media posts should be monitored to counter terror - Hendel

Israel may try to follow UK placing liability on online media for terror content.

 Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel speaks at the Jerusalem Post London Conference on March 31, 2022

Fiber internet is coming to 330 Israeli cities, towns and villages

The attention being given to Haredi cities could be monumental in terms of enabling the ultra-Orthodox community to join the workforce.

Bezeq workers lay fiber optics lines in Metulla.

Ministers take hours to condemn West Bank settler violence

Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel first minister to condemn the settler violence against left-wing Israeli activists and Palestinians.

 Israeli soldiers stand guard between Jewish settlers and Palestinians from the West Bank village of Burqah on December 23, 2021.

Israel’s postal service is going private

Relinquishing control over the Israeli Postal Company will save the government hundreds of millions of shekels.

 Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman (L) is seen with Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel. The two have agreed upon a format to privatize the Israeli Post Company.

Will the government succeed in breaking up Haredi autonomy in Israel?

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Yaakov Katz and Lahav Harkov

 Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel

Breaking Israel's haredi autonomy via kosher phones - interview with Yoaz Hendel

How the Communications Minister became the unexpected leader of the fight for equality under law, and haredi society’s public enemy No. 1.

 Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel

Price of Israeli landline phone service to drop by 40%

Landline phone service in Israel will become about 40% cheaper over the next two years.

 Landline home phone (Illustrative)

Benjamin Netanyahu is like an Israeli false messiah - Minister Hendel

Yoaz Hendel on Benjamin Netanyahu: "What I see is a kind of Shabtai Zvi, where people think whatever he says is the truth."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touches the stones of the Western Wall