State of Israel

Israel as the scapegoat for a Spanish train tragedy - opinion

When prejudice becomes part of the information landscape, the audience is predisposed to believe ludicrous allegations lacking evidence. The ensuing danger extends far beyond Israel or the Jews.

|ByMASHA GABRIEL
Spanish socialists have now adopted the radical Left’s position that Israel itself is illegitimate
HAREDI DEMONSTRATORS protest in Jerusalem on July 23, 2025.

The misconception of a conscription law - opinion

The Jewish people have always valued full-time Torah study above everything else. That dedication has never wavered, and it will not waver now.

|ByELIYAHU HADDAD
Ra'am head Mansour Abbas stands alongside fellow party member Yoav Segalovitz in the northern Israeli city of Sakhnin, on Israel’s general election night, October 27, 2026

Do the Arab parties accept Israel as a Jewish and democratic state? - opinion

The Jewish majority has every right to test the relationship between individual Arab behavior and their conduct as a collective group towards the state, its Jewish majority, and its enemies.

|ByHILLEL FRISCH
Supporters watch election results during a midterm election night watch party for Texas Democratic Senate candidate, State Rep. James Talarico at the Long Center on November 3, 2026 in Austin, Texas.

US midterms reshaped Washington - but they won't decide our Jewish destiny - opinion

Our response cannot be confined to better lobbying and stronger security arrangements. We need to ask a more searching question: What are we doing to make the next generation want to be Jewish?

|ByJONATHAN LIEBERMAN

Zionism succeeded beyond its founders’ dreams - so why is it dividing Jews? - analysis

From Jewish liberation movement to contested ideology, Zionism’s meaning has changed for Jews around the world

NOVEMBER 3, 2026ByBATSHEVA NEUER
Campus protests over Israel have brought renewed attention to Zionism, with the movement increasingly debated through the language of colonialism and national self-determination.
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Zionism isn’t just for Jews: Casey Babb’s moral case for all people - review

Casey Babb makes the case for Zionism as a moral ideal rooted in Jewish history, identity, and self-determination

NOVEMBER 3, 2026ByNEVILLE TELLER
Casey Babb's 'The Moral Case for Zionism' book cover.
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Israel’s electoral system is over 100 years old - is it time to let voters choose their own MKs?

Could changing how voters choose their representatives make elections better suited to the country today?

OCTOBER 13, 2026ByCHANI KAPLAN
Israelis vote for a party list, but have no say on Election Day over which of its candidates will ultimately represent them in the Knesset.
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Keeping Jews Jewish is not enough - we must build them - opinion

Zionism built more than a State – it built a different kind of Jew

OCTOBER 13, 2026ByADAM SCOTT BELLOS
Early Zionist pioneers sought not only to establish a Jewish homeland but to reshape Jewish life through physical labor, self-reliance, and collective responsibility.
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New blood wanted: Israeli politics needs an infusion of unpolluted leaders - opinion

I eagerly await the day, perhaps in the 2028 or 2030 elections, when the current crop of politicians will have passed – and that means everybody from Netanyahu to Lapid and Gafni.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2026ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
Israel’s election campaign is gathering pace, with the country’s political parties competing over the questions of security, leadership and the direction Israel takes after three years of war.

The awakening: Why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is about more than borders - opinion

For decades, a simple explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict took hold across broad segments of Israel’s Left and Center: at its core, the conflict was territorial.

AUGUST 15, 2026ByDAVID BEN-BASAT
The flags of Israel and Palestine are seen on a map of the Middle East (illustrative)

Tisha B'Av calls on Israel to restore its culture of responsibility - opinion

A healthy society should possess a moral fragrance. Its values should be detectable not only in its speeches and symbols, but in its streets, offices, schools, hospitals, and homes. 

JULY 25, 2026ByJONATHAN LIEBERMAN
The western wall male side on Tisha B'av, 2018

Health Ministry investigates suspected Ebola case after traveler develops symptoms

Israel’s Health Ministry is investigating a suspected Ebola case after a traveler returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo developed fever and headache.

JUNE 20, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
DRCONGO-HEALTH-EBOLA EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Medical staff walk towards the doffing and decontamination station at the Evangelical Medical Center of Nyankunde (CME) after providing care to patients suffering from or suspected of having Ebola virus disease in Bunia, Ituri Province, Democrati

Grapevine, May 29, 2026: Meaningful conversation

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

MAY 30, 2026ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
A general view of Jerusalem's Old City shows the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in the foreground as the Dome of the Rock, located on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, is seen in the background.

Jerusalem Day: Why are Jews ashamed of reclaiming Jerusalem? - opinion

In many Jewish communities, Jerusalem Day goes unnoticed. The liberation of Jerusalem is no longer celebrated as a miracle or even as a historic achievement. How did we lose our way so quickly?

MAY 15, 2026ByJONATHAN LIEBERMAN
A FLAG march takes place through the Old City on Jerusalem Day, in May. Israel will become a bi-national state and its Jewish expressions, including the national flag, will lose their status and their meaning, the writer warns.