Editor notes

Editor's Notes: Israel's election exposes deep political divisions after Gantz withdrawal - comment

Here is my request, the only one I’ll make before the polls open. Give yourself permission to notice one thing that complicates your choice.

Benny Gantz visits the site of an Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh, March 2, 2026
A SPEAKER addresses the intellectual debate within the Republican Party at the National Conservatism Conference in Jerusalem this week.

Editor's Notes: American Jews are changing after Oct. 7, but we cannot abandon them - comment

Houses in kibbutz Nir Oz, where residents where takedn hostage and later on murdered by Hamas terrorists in the October 7 massacre, southern Israel. September 30, 2025.

Three years later, I still think about the stories we did not tell on October 7- comment

Democratic US presidential candidates Senator Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden at the 11th Democratic candidates debate of the 2020 US presidential campaign in Washington.

Editor’s Notes: Flydubai crisis shows why we need another major news agency - comment


The cost of freedom on Israel's 69th birthday

There was a time not too long ago when we knew what it meant to be helpless.

Mount Herzl military cemetery

Editor's Notes: Why we are hosting Sebastian Gorka

The role of a newspaper is not to shy away from tough issues. It is to embrace them.

Sebastian Gorka

Is Tikkun Olam the right Jewish national narrative?

Tikkun olam is an important piece of our national story, but we should not forget the core of the Jewish people’s narrative – an ancient nation that returned to its historic homeland.

Volunteers giving back to the community on Good Deeds Day

JPost Editorial: Construction safety

Contractors resist change, claiming that strengthening safety measures on building sites would cut into their bottom line.

A laborer works on an apartment building under construction in the Har Homa quarter in Jerusalem

Why can't Israel's PM say 'God bless Israel'?

Politics need to be stripped of religion. When that happens, people will be able to enjoy the basic rights every democracy is meant to provide its citizens.

US President Donald Trump.

Politics of war

Is it realistic to expect the security cabinet to function more effectively, given the current system of political rule in Israel?

The sun sets over the northern Gaza Strip as seen from the Israeli border, Israel August 23, 2016

JPost Editorial: Pollard’s time

We are asking Obama to consider one more commutation – that of Jonathan Pollard.

Jonathan and Esther Pollard

JPost Editorial: Full-time foreign minister

Israel is facing major challenges and flux both in the region and in its relations with the US and Russia.

Netanyahu with Azerbaijan President Ilham Heydar Oghlu Aliyev

JPost Editorial: Submarines and advisers

There is discord and instability throughout the region.

A Dolphin-class submarine broaches in the Mediterranean Sea near Haifa.

Muzzling the muezzin

Drafting a new law especially for “religious institutions” – a thinly veiled code word for mosques – is counterproductive.

THE KABABIR MOSQUE in Haifa.