Camp david

Beyond Sinai: The Clause That Turned "the Enemy" Into a Name

A peace treaty provision preserving enemy war memorials offers a powerful lesson: peace begins when we stop seeing people across a border as abstractions or enemies, and remember their humanity.

Anat Vidor, president of World WIZO. Her family history is etched onto Israel’s streets and institutions.
A US Air Force F-16 fighter jet takes off from a base in the Middle East, July 23, 2026.

F-16 scrambled after civilian plane breaches airspace near Camp David during Trump visit

US President Donald Trump listens as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks during a cabinet meeting at Camp David in Thurmont, Maryland, US, July 31, 2026.

Trump says he is happy with Hegseth after ‘treasonous’ reports of fight over munitions shortages

US President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth participate in a cabinet meeting at Camp David in Thurmont, Maryland, US, July 31, 2026.

Donald Trump unaware of US munitions shortage, prompting Camp David clash with Hegseth - report


Anan Safadi: A pioneer of English-language journalism in Israel

Anan Safadi’s legacy as a pioneering journalist continues to be remembered by those who followed his work.

 Anan Safadi, a beloved former journalist at The Jerusalem Post.

Two men wear hostage pins while accepting Jimmy Carter's Grammy

Two men wore yellow pins honoring Gaza hostages while accepting Jimmy Carter’s posthumous Grammy, though his grandson and co-acceptor did not.

Steve Schnur and Doug Davis wear yellow Gaza hostage pins on stage at the Grammy Awards, February 2, 2025.

A look back at Jimmy Carter's complicated relationship with Israel - explainer

Carter was a former president with a foreign policy focusing on the Middle East during his tenure and was outspoken about Middle East politics for the remainder of his life.

Then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin and US president Jimmy Carter deliver a speech at the White House, July 19, 1977

Jimmy Carter's checkered relations with Israel and Jews

Dr. Kenneth Stein, former Middle East Fellow of the Carter Center from 1982-2006 and Carter’s primary Middle East adviser until 1994, gives a unique perspective on the former president's legacy.

 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, US President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the signing ceremony of the Egyptian - Israeli Treaty, White House lawn, March 26, 1979.

This week in Jewish history: Israeli peace accords and a massacre in Lebanon

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars.

 THE 1993 OSLO Accords between Israel and the PLO were signed in Washington, with a beaming president Bill Clinton presiding over the White House ceremony

Herzog on Yom Kippur: Being open to change

"To survive, Israel must always be prepared to defend itself," writes President Isaac Herzog.

 Israeli president Isaac Herzog at the President's Medal award ceremony at the President residence in Jerusalem, September 6, 2023.

North Korea says Camp David agreements raise possibility of 'thermonuclear war'

North Korea said the summit between the United States, South Korea and Japan at the Camp David presidential retreat on Friday was aimed at formulating a "nuclear war provocation."

 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversees a strategic cruise missile test aboard a navy warship in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on August 21, 2023.

US, S. Korea, Japan condemn China, agree to deepen military ties at Camp David

They also agreed to hold trilateral military training exercises annually and to share real-time information on North Korean missile launches by the end of 2023.

US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida depart following a joint press conference during the trilateral summit at Camp David near Thurmont, Maryland, US, August 18, 2023.

Israel’s largest law firm reflects on 50 years of change

“I spoke Hebrew at home, but did not have great Hebrew, and then he made me an offer. The magic word was it was in dollars. I focused on ‘dollars’ and didn’t hear the number,” said a partner.

 View of office and apartment highrise buildings in central Tel Aviv, on November 27, 2017

Brutally assessing Camp David II

Prophets Without Honor delivers a brutally candid assessment of the principal negotiators at Camp David.

 Prophets Without Honor