Jewish state

Israel’s election system puts coalition deals ahead of voter choice - opinion

Israel’s proportional representation system gives voters a voice, but coalition deals often determine who governs. Is it time for reform?

People at polling station during the Likud party internal elections in Tel Aviv, July 27, 2026.
Palestinians hurl rocks at Israeli security forces during clashes in the West Bank town of Hebron October 16, 2000.

The Palestinian national movement has yet to accept Israel’s right to exist - opinion

FOUR DAYS to the election of a new Knesset.

Israel has not invested enough resources into hasbara, and now we are paying the price - opinion

A Jewish man blows a shofar in the northern Israeli city of Safed, a day before the start of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, September 10, 2026.

This Rosh Hashanah, Israel must remember that we are all partners amid the election - editorial


Israel isn't the Start-Up Nation. It's the Jewish state - opinion

Israel did not fight its many wars out of allegiance to the microchip. Judaism is the basis for the past, present and future Jewish state.

 A soldier casts his ballot in the Israeli general elections a day early at the Har Dov military base on Mount Hermon, on October 31, 2022.

Smotrich, Ben-Gvir are damaging Israel’s Jewish character - opinion

If Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir become ministers, this could seriously damage support for Israel in America – maybe permanently.

 RELIGIOUS ZIONIST Party chairman Bezalel Smotrich discusses party policy at a news conference.

Israel is the land of miracles, compromises and status quo

Israeli society used to rely on compromises and the status quo, however in today's media reality, the idea of winners and losers is being promoted over the idea of peaceful compromises.

 A general view shows a session at the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, for the preliminary reading of a bill to dissolve the parliament, in Jerusalem, June 22, 2022.

Israel in search of identity: A Jewish state or a state of its citizens? -opinion

The Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People (2018) was a political response by the Likud government led by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

 THEN-PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu attends the Knesset plenum session ahead of the vote on the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, 2018

Israel is the world's worst country - except for all the others - opinion

Israel has stopped the Western clock that was ticking during the 1950’s. We continue to embody the key values that drove an optimistic post-WWII West, particularly in the United States.

 BARS AND restaurants do a brisk business at Mahaneh Yehuda in Jerusalem. Israel regularly ranks as one of the happiest nations on earth.

Letters to the editor April 13, 2022: Still here, alive and thriving

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

Passover: Hametz on IDF bases is a threat to Jewish Israel - opinion

If the Supreme Court cannot be counted on to defend the Jewish character of Israel, it will put itself into firm opposition with their own citizenry.

 A SOLDIER is armed with his weapon and matzah and glass of wine for Passover.

The hametz conflict requires common sense, not theocracy - editorial

While Israel is a Jewish state, it is not a theocracy, meaning the state cannot force its citizens to follow Jewish law.

Hametz is covered at a store in Israel

Rabbi Kanievsky's funeral a moment of truth for the Jewish state - opinion

The funeral of rabbi Kanievsky was a moment of revelation of the profound essence of the Jewish nation.

 RABBI CHAIM KANIEVSKY studies and ponders at his home in Bnei Brak, last year

My Word: Gut feelings on Amnesty International

When it comes to the Jewish state, Amnesty International’s US director Paul O’Brien doesn’t have healthy gut feelings so much as hateful Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

 JEWS AND ARABS wait for a tram at a Jerusalem light rail stop.