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Veranda: Excellent mehadrin food at the David Citadel hotel - restaurant review

I always get good service, as the restaurant knows I am writing for The Jerusalem Post. But I saw that every table received excellent service.

A dish served at the Veranda restaurant at the David Citadel in Jerusalem.
Female reporter holding microphones and writing notes during press conference, media interview, or public relations event.

‘Did he ask anything about you?’ For families of reservists, one question can go far - opinion

Harry Langbeheim in his home studio in Rehovot.

From Zurich to Rehovot: Harry Langbeheim’s paintings reveal the visual world of S.Y. Agnon

Drip irrigation.

Nine Israeli innovations that helped shape the world, from Waze to the Iron Dome


Sukkot 2026: The empty chair is gone, but the threat of Hamas and Iran remains - opinion

That daily uncertainty has been absent for months, but this is the first Sukkot on which its absence can be felt in the festival itself.

WONDERING NO LONGER: Sukka plastered with photos of then-hostages, outside Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, 2025.

Sukkot 2026: Faith and prayer can protect us, but Israel still needs a strong IDF - opinion

Even as our heads spin from a dizzying array of consecutive holidays, the parade of crises focusing on the IDF marches on and on.

FITTING BEAUTIFULLY in two worlds: Avraham Ravitz at the Knesset, 2008.

Not sheepish: Israel Museum reveals a different side of Menashe Kadishman’s art

As an exhibition currently on display at the Israel Museum clearly demonstrates, there was a lot more to the late, internationally renowned Israel Prize-winning artist than just funky farm animals.

MENASHE KADISHMAN’S 1975 ‘Laundry Forest’ installation outside the Israel Museum invited the public into the work.

Boker tov, Eliyahu: Israel is finally waking up to its global image crisis - opinion

The Hebrew phrase used for someone taking too long to realize the obvious is “Boker tov, Eliyahu” - now, at least, Israelis have finally woken up.

‘YIHIYE BESEDER’: Will it?

Sukkot 2026: What the sukkah and Four Species teach us about Israeli unity

The sukkah is where we spend much of our time over the holiday, eating our meals, and many sleep in the sukkah when conditions and weather allow. 

(Illustrative) A woman stands inside a Sukkah, holding a Lulav and Etrog.

'I had not truly come home': Israeli psychologist turns Gaza, Lebanon battlefield trauma into art

After more than 400 days of reserve duty in Gaza and Lebanon, psychologist Michael Feuerstein turned his battlefield experiences into art exploring trauma, healing, and the journey home.

DRAWING: MICHAEL sunk in the sand of the battlefield.

Sukkot 2026: Bend-ability

The sukkah suggests unity through sameness. Everyone sits beneath the same fragile roof, exposed to the same elements.

BOUND TOGETHER: Morning prayers in Katzrin, Sukkot 2025.

Sukkot 2026: The refined person

The Torah itself emphasizes the idea of hadar in the festival’s central mitzvah, the mitzvah of the Four Species, and even makes it part of the definition of the mitzvah.

EXAMINING AN ETROG.

‘I want to bring change and repair’: Eisenkot lays out vision for Israel in first English interview

Speaking exclusively to the Post, the Yashar leader explains how he would replace Benjamin Netanyahu, his stance on the failures of Oct. 7, and the personal loss that shaped his political mission.

Gadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar Party, speaks to the Jerusalem Post ahead of elections in September 2026.

'My Wanderings in the Gardens': Hansen House, a Jerusalem architectural and cultural gem - review

My Wanderings in the Gardens: The Legacy of Hansen House in Jerusalem is a charming, arresting, evocative, historical, information-laden portrayal of the backdrop to the architectural and cultural ge

HANSEN HOUSE in 1887 when it was still known in German as Jesus’s Help. The vineyard in the front was planted before the building was completed.