State of Israel

Israel votes like it's 1920. Should it still?

Could changing how voters choose their representatives make elections better suited to the country today?

|ByCHANI KAPLAN
Israelis vote for a party list, but have no say on Election Day over which of its candidates will ultimately represent them in the Knesset.Premium
Early Zionist pioneers sought not only to establish a Jewish homeland but to reshape Jewish life through physical labor, self-reliance, and collective responsibility.PremiumPremium

Keeping Jews Jewish isn't enough. We must build them - opinion

Zionism built more than a State – it built a different kind of Jew

|ByADAM SCOTT BELLOS
Israel’s election campaign is gathering pace, with the country’s political parties competing over the questions of security, leadership and the direction Israel takes after three years of war.

New blood wanted: Israeli politics needs an infusion of unpolluted leaders - opinion

I eagerly await the day, perhaps in the 2028 or 2030 elections, when the current crop of politicians will have passed – and that means everybody from Netanyahu to Lapid and Gafni.

|ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
The flags of Israel and Palestine are seen on a map of the Middle East (illustrative)

The awakening: Why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is about more than borders - opinion

For decades, a simple explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict took hold across broad segments of Israel’s Left and Center: at its core, the conflict was territorial.

|ByDAVID BEN-BASAT

We must celebrate this Independence Day to show our enemies they will not win - opinion

This year, we can look within and see the bravery and heroism in the hearts of each and every one of us.

MAY 13, 2024ByRABBI AVI BERMAN
A woman waves an Israeli flag as people gather during the event "100 days 100 voices" to mark 100 days since the October 7 Hamas attack, calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza, in front of the Opera Bastille in Paris, France, January 14, 2024

The state of Holocaust education is dire, and the situation is failing survivors - opinion

The rot goes much deeper and has spread among the highly educated who don’t dispute that the Holocaust happened – and even commemorate it.

MAY 12, 2024ByANDREA SAMUELS
‘THE WORLD Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’; Holocaust education, which includes books like this one, is failing survivors, says the writer.

History repeats itself, and we cannot forget the mistakes that our democracies made - opinion

Who could have imagined that at leading American universities, administrators, professors, and students would stand with Hitler’s disciple – Hamas. 

MAY 12, 2024ByMARVIN HIER
CONTEMPLATIVE MOMENTS on campus in front of hostages, near the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University, New York City, April 24.

From victimhood to statehood: The Holocaust's legacy and Israel's power - opinion

The State of Israel was not born because of the Holocaust, but its birth restored hope to the Jewish people then, and it guarantees us a lifeline now – power over our survival and our destiny.

MAY 12, 2024ByJOSHUA M. DAVIDSON
PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog addresses the state ceremony at the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem, last Sunday night.

The new heart of the Jewish calendar: Holocaust Remembrance Day and Independence Day - opinion

These two days symbolize the greatest assault of death and evil on life and the greatest outburst of life and renewal ever, both dueling and reinforcing each other with unparalleled force.

MAY 12, 2024ByYITZ GREENBERG
MOTORISTS STAND at attention, in Tel Aviv, as sirens sound across Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, last Monday.

Defiant independence: Israel must show resolve against international emasculation - opinion

And at this very moment, true atzmaut, real independence, means that Israel must advance in defiance of those who seek to emasculate it.

MAY 11, 2024ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
TRUCKS at the Erez crossing are on their way to bring humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, this week. Hamas has blown up humanitarian supply infrastructures that Israel facilitated, and instead spent hundreds of millions of dollars in aid on military attack infrastructures, the writer asserts.

A break down of Israel's population on the country's 76th Independence Day

Israel's population currently stands at 9.9 million people. When broken down into sectors, there are 7.247 million Jews, who make up 73.2% of the population, while the Arab population stands at 2.089

MAY 9, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
People watch the military airshow as part of Israel's 75th Independence Day celebrations, in Saker Park, Jerusalem, April 26, 2023.

Israel is not responsible for Hamas’s evil - opinion

We have nothing to atone for in this incident or the countless others Hamas has brought on its own people.

APRIL 28, 2024ByURI PILICHOWSKI
DISPLACED PALESTINIANS shelter last week in an UNRWA-affiliated school in the central Gaza Strip. Gazan Palestinians are not Israeli citizens and are not Israel’s responsibility. Israel didn’t want this war, didn’t start this war, and doesn’t want it to continue, the writer asserts.

Israelis are not European occupiers - opinion

It is essential to understand that the woke movement did not come from nowhere; it emerged in a vacuum resulting from a lack of ethnic diversity.

FEBRUARY 20, 2024ByRONI FANTANESH MALKAI
Ethiopian Jews land in Israel, June 1, 2022

Jewish people have always desired peace with all their neighbors - opinion

Thousands of Israelis died because the risk of the Oslo Peace Accords didn’t pan out, and its failure unleashed waves of terror Israelis are still falling victims to until today.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI
YITZHAK RABIN knew of the likely failure of the Oslo Accords and the high price failure could bring, but on the small chance it could work, couldn’t pass on the opportunity to make peace, says the writer.