JPost Editorial

Israelis should allow themselves to enjoy the day. Bring children to the polling station. Talk with friends and relatives, including those voting differently.

The test for any coalition should be whether it can protect the country while governing responsibly at home and maintaining credibility abroad.

The Jerusalem Post supports a carefully defined Israeli call for peaceful dialogue. Argentina deserves a fair hearing. The Falklanders deserve control over their future.

Giving religious sanction to taking another person’s livelihood carries consequences for the farmer, for those encouraged to take his crop, and for the society that allows it.

As Israel heads to the polls, Trump's public backing of Netanyahu raises questions about foreign interference and the limits of US-Israel friendship.

Israel needs good people in politics. It also needs those people to make wise political decisions.

For Israeli passengers who simply want to visit family or take a holiday abroad, the prospect of emergency landings and bomb scares becoming an accepted part of air travel is deeply unsettling.

The Lebanese government should reject the demand. Returning the explosives would undermine security forces’ concrete step toward enforcing state authority and confirm Hezbollah can overrule them.

Israeli officials must account publicly for any failures identified in investigations into the West Bank attacks and explain how they will protect the remaining harvest.

For the politicians vying for our vote to lead the country, the task ahead should not simply be to form the next government but to begin putting the country back together.