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?

|ByDANIEL EPSTEIN-O’DOWD, SETH BARRETT TILLMAN
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

Decades of conflict, failed negotiations, and the October 7 massacre raise a central question: Is the Palestinian national movement willing to accept Israel?

|ByURI PILICHOWSKI
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

We need to find a way to project the factual reality of the one Jewish state; currently, we are paying the price of not recognizing the significance of the battle of the word.

|ByBRENDA KATTEN
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

The test is whether, a year from now, we will still recognize one another as partners in the same extraordinary enterprise: building and defending the Jewish state.

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL

IDF urged to allow chametz on army bases during Passover

The letter to the Chief of Staff asks to ensure the supply of kosher food for Passover does not justify a ban on the holding of chametz by secular or non-Jews.

JANUARY 29, 2021ByGADI ZAIG
IDF SOLDIERS from the 669 Unit during a training exercise last year.

A Wall of Honor, Hope, and Heritage

Jewish National Fund-USA donor Bob Chertkof joins the Wall of Honor

JANUARY 26, 2021ByMATT ROBINSON
JNF-USA’s Ammunition Hill Wall of Honor acknowledges past and present individuals who served their country’s armed services.

Dissension in the home; dissension in the homeland

Let there be no doubt that one day a majority of Palestinian Arabs will condemn the self-indulgent and corrupt Palestinian leadership for the crimes they are committing against their own people.

NOVEMBER 5, 2020ByAVRAHAM AVI-HAI
The author’s Zayde, Efraim Fishel Onrot, with son, Jacob, and grandson, Lee Atkins

The Jewish state: Zionism’s success, not its failure

Today, the old romanticized image of Israel, shaped more by Exodus the film than by Exodus, the biblical book, no longer gets much of a hearing.

AUGUST 22, 2020ByDONNA ROBINSON DIVINE
ISRAEL’S FIRST prime minister David Ben-Gurion (center) stands under a portrait depicting Theodore Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, as he reads Israel’s Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv May 14, 1948.

What does ‘a Jewish state’ mean?

Should there be a separation between shul and state?

APRIL 27, 2020ByMOSHE DANN
‘TODAY THE State of Israel’s identification with Jewish nationhood is under attack from all sides.’

Book review: Ex-Irish minister says he was framed

Book blames antisemitism for derailing Alan Shatter’s career

NOVEMBER 28, 2019ByYANKY FACHLER
PLO leader Yasser Arafat shakes hands with Irish foreign minister Dick Spring in 1996

Jewish states' citizens' - 'Thorny situations' under review

Dee Corum’s take on the sometimes thorny situations we face here in the Jewish state.

MAY 2, 2019ByDEE CORUM
‘WHETHER ON social media or in real life, the stakes seem high in convincing the world that our lives are great.’