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The High Court of Justice ordered 189 former Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) officials who sought to overturn David Zini’s appointment as head of the agency to reveal their identities to him by next Thursday, bringing the latest dispute arising from one of Israel’s most contested security appointments closer to a…
During a settler attack aimed at stealing sheep, the Israeli army killed a Palestinian boy and a young man on Wednesday evening in the village of Al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah.
London, the UK – Four Palestine Action activists who were sentenced as “terrorists” are appealing against the ruling.
During a settler attack aimed at stealing sheep, the Israeli army killed a Palestinian boy and a young man on Wednesday evening in the village of Al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah.
US President Donald Trump has congratulated Secretary of War Pete Hegseth over the latest American strikes on Iran, despite one of the attacks hitting a wedding and killing several civilians.
US President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that Syria acting as an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz would be “great.” He commented after a headline at The Washington Post noted that Syria was “eyeing role as Middle East hub, offers options to bypass Hormuz.” This comes as US and Iran tensions grew this week…
Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Thursday the deaths of six more military personnel from US strikes this week, bringing the military death toll to at least 13.
MK Karine Elharrar announced on Thursday that she will not run in the next election on behalf of the Yesh Atid party.
Israel has returned the body of 15-year-old Palestinian Jadallah Jihad Jumaa Jadallah, whom its forces shot dead in November 2025.
Tensions between Britain and Israel are rapidly escalating with Andy Burnham's government gearing up to announce a raft of strong measures on the occupied West Bank, including a ban on goods from illegal Israeli settlements.
Air bases used by US in the UAE and Kuwait hit as the Israeli defence chief says Iran’s regime fears collapse due to economic pressures
Tensions between Britain and Israel are rapidly escalating with Andy Burnham's government gearing up to announce a raft of strong measures on the occupied West Bank, including a ban on goods from illegal Israeli settlements.
Israel has released five Lebanese men its forces detained in areas under military control in southern Lebanon, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.
Iran's retaliatory attacks on US bases and the regional countries hosting them actually continued overnight into Thursday, despite CENTCOM having on Wednesday announced the cessation of the US bombing operation.
Oil prices rose on Thursday as Iran continued to strike U.S. Gulf allies with Kuwait intercepting incoming missiles and drones.
Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir will unveil a plan on Thursday to "encourage voluntary emigration from Gaza", making it a central plank of his election campaign and a key demand for joining any future coalition.
Police detained 16 minors and adults in Yavne’el on Thursday over suspected involvement in illegal child marriages, marking the second major operation in the Lower Galilee town in three months.
Israel's parties are racing to finalize their Knesset lists by early next week, and the scramble of mergers and defections is exposing real cracks in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing bloc, Knesset and political correspondent Keshet Neev said on the latest episode of The Deep Dive.
Supreme Court President Isaac Amit warned on Wednesday that verbal attacks by public officials and on social media can pave the way for physical violence against judges and lawyers, calling for restraint as Israel’s election campaign intensifies.
Readers of The Jerusalem Post are very familiar with the byline of Yonah Jeremy Bob.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., discusses the war with Iran and the cost of living as he speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Palestine has once again become a prominent issue at the Venice Film Festival, with filmmakers and actors showing their support in the lead-up to the event and on its opening day.
Palestine has once again become a prominent issue at the Venice Film Festival, with filmmakers and actors showing their support in the lead-up to the event and on its opening day.
Una columna de humo señala el lugar donde las fuerzas israelíes derribaron viviendas en Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, en el sur de Líbano, el 23 de agosto de 2026. (AP Foto/Mohammed Zaatari)
An Iraqi lawyer has filed a complaint with public prosecutors against a senior Iran-backed politician and militia leader over remarks that militias played a role in quelling the pro-reform mass protests ignited in October 2019.
The full Central Elections Committee will decide by 5 p.m. Sunday whether polling-station representatives may relay to parties identified, real-time information about who has voted, under an arrangement approved by the High Court of Justice on Thursday.
Iranian university professors have threatened to strike and suspend academic activity at universities across the country if their wages continue to go unpaid, according to a statement published by the Iran Academic Faculty Trade Union.
We could’ve predicted the reactions to the enforcement mission at the former UNRWA compound in Jerusalem.
Israel has always been a country of immigrants, olim who arrived from around the world determined to build a new life in their ancestral homeland.
Questions are mounting over whether Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will again postpone Palestinian Legislative Council elections, or whether the long-delayed vote will finally take place, bringing an end to the council’s 16-year-old expired mandate, according to expert analysts and reports in Arab dia…
Israel is reportedly set to release five Lebanese detainees on Thursday and return them to Lebanon, as part of ongoing US-brokered negotiations between the two countries.
More than eight months after Syrian authorities detained Adel al-Natour, a 71-year-old co-founder and former member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), he remains held without trial or access to legal counsel, his family told Middle East Eye.
The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) has denied an exclusive Middle East Eye report that the former UK prime minister asked the Palestinian Authority (PA) to remove any mention of "Palestine" from school textbooks.
Jailed Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safia continues to face abuse under Israeli detention, according to his lawyer, raising renewed concerns about his safety inside the prison.
The USS Abraham Lincoln crew received their first rest-and-recuperation day on Wednesday after 286 days at sea, deployed in the Middle East, with photos showing significant surface rust amid reports of mental health concerns, deteriorating onboard conditions, and a possible redeployment until 2027.
Maryland judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Trump’s executive order targeting what he termed ‘birth tourism’
Israel will release a number of Lebanese detainees on Thursday, reportedly four or five, who were arrested in recent months, as a “gesture to the Lebanese government,” an Israeli source told The Jerusalem Post.
Iran received more than $1bn in oil revenue during the 11 days to September 2, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
Iran's leaders are struggling to keep the war effort going while the economy reels from a record currency collapse, soaring prices and fuel shortages.
Israel has admitted to assassinating a senior aide to former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2008, after years of official silence.
SCO summit: China, Russia and Iran call for greater multilateral cooperation
Israeli soldiers have demolished an entire West Bank village and killed two teenagers, continuing a surge of violence against Palestinians in the occupied territory.
Airport ground handler Menzies Aviation is planning expansion in the Gulf and US, while the Syrian market is of interest, as it aims to sustain its “aggressive” growth despite Iran war-related travel disruptions and higher costs.
An Iranian attack on Israel would release the IDF "from any restrictions," Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday during a speech to Defense Ministry employees ahead of the upcoming Rosh Hashanah holiday, Walla reported.
The son of Iran's former vice president received over $2 million in contracts from the Canadian government as he worked to further the regime's missile program and help it evade sanctions, Global News reported on Wednesday, citing obtained documents.
Ben-Gvir did not come into power in a vacuum: he was helped into his position by an international community that has afforded Israel complete impunity
As the Trump administration refuses to end its war in Iran, it is steering into the storm, not out of it
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militia launched 14 ballistic missiles, with “concurrent drone attacks”, targeting areas along the Red Sea coast in the Taiz and Hodeidah provinces, government forces said on Thursday.
Comments by Yair Netanyahu, the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, backing Argentina’s claim to the British-controlled Falkland Islands have caused an unlikely row with Britain’s right wing – one of the United Kingdom’s last reliable pro-Israel groups.
The deaths in al-Mughayyir come amid a recent surge in settler violence in the occupied West Bank