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Alex Rif spent her childhood trying to erase her Russian accent. Now she's running for Knesset on Gadi Eisenkot's list to make sure no immigrant has to. Rif is a poet, founder of the One Million Lobby, and architect of Yashar's immigration absorption platform, and brings numbers that rarely make headlines: of olim who arrived in 2025, only 18% studied in ulpan and 17% found work in their field.  "...

A Haredi writer, a religious Zionist philosopher and a Palestinian Israeli from Nazareth sit in one room and talk about the conflict, without pretending to agree. They are part of TEMA, a cross-sector Israeli leadership network that deliberately has no solution to sell. Its method is unusual: participants first meet in homogeneous groups, Haredi with Haredi, Palestinian Israeli with Palestinian Is...

Most olim aren't lost on the way to Israel, they're lost the week after. Ofer Nachshon and Rabbi Sid Slivko explain why so many go home. Olim Paveway doesn't try to convince anyone to make aliyah. That's the point. Co-founder Ofer Nachshon, an Israeli entrepreneur, and Rabbi Sid Slivko, an American oleh of 30 years, sat down with the Jerusalem Post's Batsheva Shulman to talk about the part of aliy...

At 23, Yonatan Shalev could become the youngest lawmaker in Israel's history. He fought a year in Gaza, buried his best friend, and now wants the Knesset. Shalev founded the reservists' movement Shoulder to Shoulder weeks after his closest friend from Maglan, Yonatan Deutsch, was murdered in a Hamas terror attack in the Jordan Valley. He explains why he left advocacy for Naftali Bennett's Together...

He grew up in the triangle between the Knesset, Hebrew University and the Israel Museum, the son of a Bank of Israel official. At 12, he cried when Menachem Begin won. Today Gadi Taub is one of the most influential intellectuals of the Israeli right. In this interview with The Jerusalem Post, historian Dr. Gadi Taub retraces the defection that took him from Peace Now demonstrations to the front li...

Ten years after Elie Wiesel's death, his son answers the American politician who told Israel it has become a pariah. Elisha Wiesel, chairman of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, former Goldman Sachs executive, and the only child of the Nobel laureate, sat down with the Jerusalem Post at Yad Vashem. He explains why he refuses to say what his father would think today ("there are very few priv...

Iran's missiles have stopped. Its cyberattacks haven't. Former Unit 8200 intelligence officer Julia Kogan Ehrlich explains the war nobody sees. Israel's national cyber chief, Yossi Karadi, says hostile cyber incidents tripled to roughly 4,800 in a single month and that unlike the kinetic realm, there's no ceasefire in cyberspace. Kogan Ehrlich, a cybersecurity executive who served nearly nine year...

Lindsey Graham is dead at 71, and Israel has lost the man Netanyahu called its greatest friend in Washington. Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel on what that actually costs. Hours after Graham's sudden death, Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister told the Jerusalem Post it will be "very, very difficult, whether it will be impossible literally, to replace him." Haskel traces what Graham built, the T...

Born in Jerusalem, raised in Colorado, building a creative career in LA, until October 7, and rising antisemitism sent Zoe Manor back to Israel, in the middle of a war. Manor grew up between two worlds: an American, Ashkenazi mother from Long Island and a Moroccan, Sephardic father, with Hebrew as her first language but no initial memory of the country she was born in. She spent years feeling she...

Obama's former chief of staff and a lifelong defender of Israel, Rahm Emanuel came to Tel Aviv with a blunt message: this alliance can't survive as it is. In this Jerusalem Post interview, recorded after his Tel Aviv University address, Emanuel argues Israel now sits at its lowest standing in the U.S. since 1948, and that the collapse is a series of choices, not fate. "You've gone from being known...

Jailed for 804 days in Iran on false spying charges, academic Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert refused the Revolutionary Guard's offer of freedom, if she'd spy for them. In this Jerusalem Post interview, Moore-Gilbert describes surviving IRGC detention and Iran's public prison system, being stripped of her identity down to a number, and holding on to who she was as an act of defiance: "I just didn't break....

Doron Almog was the first Israeli soldier to land at Entebbe in 1976. Now, 50 years later, he chairs the Jewish Agency and sees history repeating. In this rare interview, Almog draws direct lines between three defining experiences: leading the 1976 Entebbe rescue with only 12 hours of preparation; raising a severely disabled son whom he calls "my greatest teacher" and for whom he built a village o...

American businessman and longtime US diplomatic insider Harley Lippman returns to Israel for the first time in two years to give a blunt geopolitical assessment: the US-Iran MOU shocked the system, American public opinion has flipped against Israel, and three converging forces: media optics, far-left ideology, and Qatari money, are driving a crisis that didn't exist five years ago. Lippman, who ha...

Montana Tucker, dancer, content creator, and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, is hosting the 2026 Maccabiah Games delegation parade and debuting an original song live in Jerusalem. Tucker, who has visited Israel nine times since October 7, 2023, sat down with the Jerusalem Post ahead of the opening ceremony to discuss what this moment means for the global Jewish community. "We truly do need t...

Six years ago, Dr. Anna Harwood-Gross and her team began designing one of the world's most ambitious psychedelic therapy trials, an Israeli study testing whether MDMA-assisted therapy could help soldiers with combat PTSD that hadn't responded to standard treatment. They received ethics approval in the summer of 2023. Their first drug delivery was scheduled for October. Then October 7 happened. In...

74% of young Jews worldwide say they can positively shape their community, nearly twice the optimism rate of Jews over 60. After October 7, hostile campuses, and the Iran war, that wasn't the finding anyone expected. In this conversation, Dr. Shelley Kedar, Chief Impact Officer of The Jewish Agency for Israel, walks through the One People Report, the agency's first global survey of nearly 1,500 Je...

The White House's point man for the 2026 World Cup, Andrew Giuliani, on how the US is bringing Iran's national team into Los Angeles, and why he insists Iran policy hasn't bent for the tournament. Speaking to Idan Kweller in an interview recorded days before kickoff, Giuliani details the security architecture behind the first 48-team World Cup: more than 400 law enforcement agencies coordinating,...

Dr. Gerald Steinberg, founder of NGO Monitor, traces how Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, which he says has documented Hamas ties, helped shape a viral New York Times op-ed on Israeli sexual violence, published the day before a landmark report documenting Hamas atrocities on October 7. In this wide-ranging interview, Steinberg explains how NGOs with combined budgets in the billions coordinate simult...

Dr. Shmuel Legesse, an Ethiopian Jewish writer and activist, described his life’s mission as a call to strengthen Jewish unity, defend Israel’s legitimacy, and give voice to the Ethiopian Jewish experience during a conversation on The Jerusalem Post podcast. Legesse said his sense of purpose began in childhood in Ethiopia, where his father would bless him and tell him he would one day “speak to th...

In this conversation with The Jerusalem Post 's senior field reporter Sam Halpern, Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander, President of Ohr Torah Stone (OTS), opens up about the haredi draft, women in combat, the Jerusalem Day flag march, and the dangerous misuse of the term "Amalek." Anchored by the death of Maj. (res.) Itamar Sapir, the 26th OTS alumnus killed in the war, Brander argues that religious Jews w...

Dr. Yizhar Hess, Vice chairman of the World Zionist Organization and a 10th-generation Jerusalemite, argues Israel has created an "unholy connection between state and religion" that pushes Jews away from their own tradition. In this candid Jerusalem Post interview, Hess unpacks the most consequential World Zionist Congress in years: how MERCAZ (the Masorti/Conservative slate) nearly doubled its ma...

Khosro Isfahani, research director at the National Union for Democracy in Iran, said anger is building inside Iran following months of war, internet shutdowns, economic damage, and mass repression. Speaking with The Jerusalem Post, Isfahani said Iranians see the Islamic Republic as unchanged, despite what he described as a regime effort to project normalcy after the recent conflict.

Alon Wald never met his father, a paratrooper killed at Ammunition Hill during the Six-Day War when Alon was just 10 months old. Today, he runs the memorial site where his father fell. In this rare personal interview, Alon traces a life shaped by one absence, and by the extraordinary decision of his father's surviving unit to skip their own victory parade and knock on the doors of every bereaved f...

Prof. Eli Avraham has spent 25 years researching international media coverage of Israel — and his verdict is stark: Hamas earns a 9/10 for its media strategy while Israel scrapes a 3. His new book, From David to Goliath, dissects decades of structural failure and editorial bias. After October 7th, with roughly 1,000 journalists descending on Israel, the government's response was neighborhood Whats...