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Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:01:22 GMT
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Moshe Feiglin attends a hearing at the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem on petitions challenging the UNRWA laws passed by the Knesset, August 3, 2026 (photo credit: CHAIM GOLDBERG/FLASH90)
“I want to see Gaza empty. I am not afraid when they’re hiding behind their own babies. And this is what they do,” Feiglin said.
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:30:23 GMT
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British-Israeli Emily Damari, 30, a former hostage, has her hair done during a photo shoot for her clothing brand which carries the slogan ‘never lose yourself.’ (photo credit: REUTERS/SHIR TOREM)
"I feel that I’m not alone and that there's so much love in this world, and we need to keep it with both our hands," Aviva Siegel said. "I feel very, very lucky to be alive."
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:42:17 GMT
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Gadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar Party, speaks to the Jerusalem Post ahead of elections in September 2026. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)
"The haredim sent an MK to me and told me: 'Gadi, we are done with the alliance with Netanyahu. Come and tell us what you are offering us,'" he said.
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:58:23 GMT
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 Transportation Minister Miri Regev is seen at Ben-Gurion Airport, central Israel, May 4, 2025 (photo credit: CHAIM GOLDBERG/FLASH90)
This report came one day after N12 found that the official provided services to the Transportation Ministry through an outsourcing arrangement and was not a state employee.
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:23:15 GMT
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Kirya 311 (photo credit: Courtesy)
Israel Police confirmed the arrest in its own Monday statement, though it did not name the security site, nationality, or the reason for the tourist's arrest beyond their "suspicious" behavior.
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:51:06 GMT
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IDF soldiers lower Israeli flags to half-mast at the President
At 6:29 a.m. on October 7, the time at which the Hamas attack began, the October Council has planned a minute of silence to be held.
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:28:07 GMT
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"We will carry their stories with us and educate generations of commanders and soldiers by their example," he said, referring to all those who have fallen during and since the massacre.
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:40:56 GMT
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A train seen at Tel Aviv Savidor Central Station, pictured in 2020; illustrative. (photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/FLASH90)
Train service will resume once the police approve, the railway said.
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:28:03 GMT
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Despite never winning enough votes to form a majority government, he has cobbled together a series of fragile and seemingly impossible coalitions, including voices from the far-left to the right.
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:52:33 GMT
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistan
The kingdom is searching for friends beyond Washington, for allies ready to put rockets where the rhetoric is and assist in a fight Saudi Arabia considers existential.
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:42:30 GMT
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Members of the Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces ride on a military pick-up vehicle as they patrol a road leading to a frontline of clashes with Iran-aligned Houthi fighters, in Taiz province, Yemen, September 30, 2026.  (photo credit: Ebrahim Al-Suhaibi/Reuters)
The pro-government's Giants Brigades said its first contingents had arrived in the Bab el-Mandeb area.
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:29:23 GMT
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Learning Hebrew at the Alliance Rachi School in Paris2 (photo credit: UnitEd)
A Jerusalem summit will bring together more than 300 educators from Israel and around the world to share ideas, confront common challenges, and strengthen the connections that sustain Jewish life.
Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:30:47 GMT
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Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the US president, and her husband Jared Kushner pose during a summit on Gaza in Sharm el-Sheikh on October 13, 2025. (photo credit: YOAN VALAT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump helped achieve what few in Jerusalem thought possible, bringing every Israeli hostage home and reshaping the Middle East.
Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:30:27 GMT
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Gadi Eisenkot, head of Yashar, is the main challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming October election. (photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI)
The former IDF chief has emerged as the leading opposition challenger to Netanyahu, offering voters a path to a post-Netanyahu Israel.
Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:30:17 GMT
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Since returning to politics, Bennett has shifted from his previous campaigns, taking a more liberal position while maintaining a strong right-wing stance on security.
Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:30:04 GMT
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WJC President Ronald S. Lauder speaking at The Jerusalem Post Conference in New York City, June 1, 2026. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)
Lauder has never confined himself to quiet philanthropy - he continues to use his position to demand accountability from political leaders.
Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:30:37 GMT
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Christian Conference in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2025 (photo credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Netanyahu has become more than Israel’s prime minister for many. Abroad, for instance, he has become Israel’s symbol and the lightning rod for much of the hatred directed against the Jewish state.
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:44 GMT
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Police personnel stand outside a closed lab following an advisory from the local authority to close shops and other establishments at Connaught Place in New Delhi on July 23, 2026. (photo credit: ARUN SANKAR/AFP via Getty Images)
Driham was dubbed an “Israeli drug baron” but was cleared after claiming that police had planted drugs. The arrest is an immigration-related detention rather than an arrest for a new drug offense.
Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:21:31 GMT
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A flydubai plane carrying passengers from flight FZ1073 arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, after a suspected terror attack aboard their original flight from Dubai to Israel forced an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, September 30, 2026. (photo credit: FLASH90)
"The dream was to crash into Ben-Gurion Airport," Omani pilot Hamam al-Hammami said during interrogation, an Israeli source told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:31:55 GMT
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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks at a conference of senior command staf at the Glilot IDF base on October 4, 2026. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON
Under the changes, the IDF will base its readiness on what its enemies are capable of doing rather than assessments of what they intend to do
Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:25:32 GMT
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Eagles’ Wings founder and president Bishop Robert Stearns - Awake Jerusalem 2026 (photo credit: Dudu Koren, Eagles’ Wings)
The October 3 music festival is part of a ten-day Eagles’ Wings delegation that has brought more than 550 Christian leaders to Israel ahead of the third anniversary of the October 7 attack.
Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:44:29 GMT
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‘There was nobody in the cockpit’: Israeli passenger reconstructs flydubai attack  (photo credit: ROI ABRAMOWITZ for THE JERUSALEM POST)
“I had to shake the pilots.” “We put an Israeli guard on every crew member.” Tal reconstructs the minutes aboard the flydubai flight and what happened after passengers regained control.
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:55:05 GMT
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets "heroes" who intervened on a flydubai flight bound to Israel from the United Arab Emirates, in Jerusalem Thursday, 1st October 2026 (photo credit: AMOS BEN GERSHOM/GPO)
It’s now incumbent on the relevant authorities to examine how the events leading to the attempted hijacking were allowed to materialize in the first place.
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:11:48 GMT
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Coyote in New York. (photo credit: Courtesy Boaz Dvir)
The hijacking of the flydubai flight made "To Kill a Nazi" incredibly topical, since it tells the story of the extraordinary life of Michel Cojot, a Holocaust and Entebbe hijacking survivor.
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:11:41 GMT
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A USAF B-1 bomber takes off at RAF Fairford airbase, used by United States Air Force (USAF) personnel, amid the U.S.–Israeli conflict with Iran, in Fairford, Gloucestershire, Britain, March 17, 2026.  (photo credit: TOBY MELVILLE/REUTERS)
Until recently, 12 B-1B Lancer bombers had been stationed at Fairford, and were also used by the United States during strikes on Iran.
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:57:28 GMT
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YEHUDA FELDMER’S ‘Shalom’ traces the word’s visual and cultural meanings from the Bible to the present. (photo credit: ANU - Museum of the Jewish People)
The new works, created by graduates of the University of Haifa’s School of Design, examine how the events have shaped Israeli society and its visual language.