Editor notes

Editor’s Notes: Flydubai crisis shows why we need another major news agency - comment

As editor of the Post, I would welcome another substantial international news agency. I would like a wider range of independently gathered accounts for our editors to consider.

Democratic US presidential candidates Senator Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden at the 11th Democratic candidates debate of the 2020 US presidential campaign in Washington.
ISRAELIS JUST aren’t interested. Chili Tropper (left) and Yoaz Hendel launch the Zionist Home – The Reservists party in July.

Editor’s Notes: I believed in Israel’s third bloc until pollsters proved me wrong - comment

Journalist and director Rachel Szor and Israeli journalist and filmmaker Yuval Abraham attend the "Naza" Photocall during the 83rd Venice International Film Festival at Palazzo del Casino on September 10, 2026 in Venice, Italy.

Editor's Notes: We asked the IDF about two Gaza strikes. We’re still waiting

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an unknown location, in this still image taken from handout video released July 21, 2026.

Editor's Notes: Germany’s ‘good Jews’ thought they were safe, New York should pay attention


No kindness

By deciding to limit morality, ZAKA is already losing direction.

Zaka first responders Yossi Frankel (right) and Benzi Oring pose in front of one of the organization’s emergency vehicles

Remembering the UN’s hypocrisy, 40 years on

A roundup of news from across the country.

BGU HONOREES (back row, from left) Nobel Prize laureate Prof. Yisrael Aumann, BGU rector Prof. Zvi Hacohen, journalist Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, media personality Yitzhak Livni, (front row, from left) entrepreneur and philanthropist Judith Yovel Recanati, Negev activist Dodik Shoshani, BGU president Ri

Collateral damage

Haftom Zarhum, an Eritrean migrant, was shot by a guard and beaten by a mob during a terrorist attack at the Beersheba Central Bus Station last month.

Blood at the scene where terrorist was shot at the Beersheba central bus station on October 18, 2015

Compromised Judaism

The lack of judges has generated a tremendous backlog of cases waiting to be tried, particularly on the High Rabbinical Court where hardly any judges are functioning.

The rabbis of the Council of the Chief Rabbinate

The Jenin model

Increased cooperation, particularly when it is supported by Turkey, a country with immense importance to Israel both economically and militarily, should be encouraged.

PALESTINIAN WOMEN visit Jerusalem on the eve of Ramadan

Music censor

Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev demanded on Wednesday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel cancel talks for a planned performance in Tehran by Daniel Barenboim.

Israeli-Argentine conductor Daniel Barenboim

July 5, 2015: Just an excuse

Readers respond to the latest Jerusalem Post articles.

Envelope

Jpost editorial: Shortsighted Vatican

The Vatican announced this week that it was poised to sign a treaty with the Palestinian political leadership.

The Vatican

Letters to the Editor: The coalition deals

With regard to “Netanyahu facing Likud rebellion over portfolios” (May 8), we finally seem to have a government – but at what cost?

President Reuven Rivlin tasks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with forming Israel’s 34th government, March 25

Letters to the editor: Jan. 25

Letters