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October 20, 2026 • 40 mins
Israel recovered fast on the battlefield but kept losing the narrative war, says former HonestReporting executive director Gil Hoffman.
In a wide-ranging conversation with Jerusalem Post senior international affairs correspondent Mathilda Heller, Hoffman discusses his new book, The Blood Libel Machine. He argues that Hamas planned October 7 to shape global public opinion, and that Israel entered the war with no plan for the ...
In a wide-ranging conversation with Jerusalem Post senior international affairs correspondent Mathilda Heller, Hoffman discusses his new book, The Blood Libel Machine. He argues that Hamas planned October 7 to shape global public opinion, and that Israel entered the war with no plan for the ...
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October 19, 2026 • 29 mins
Israel's Education Minister Yoav Kisch says Likud wants an October 7 investigation, just not one appointed by Supreme Court President Yitzhak Amit.
In this Jerusalem Post interview, recorded days before Israel's October 27 election, the senior Likud minister argues that half the country would reject a state commission of inquiry, and proposes instead a bipartisan national committee modeled on the US 9/11 Commission.
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In this Jerusalem Post interview, recorded days before Israel's October 27 election, the senior Likud minister argues that half the country would reject a state commission of inquiry, and proposes instead a bipartisan national committee modeled on the US 9/11 Commission.
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October 15, 2026 • 30 mins
Netanyahu's foreign policy adviser Ophir Falk says no viable hostage deal was ever on the table, and he disputes Brett McGurk's account of the talks.
In this wide-ranging Jerusalem Post interview, Falk, who served on Israel's hostage negotiating team, rejects the claim that Israel could have secured an earlier release. "There was never a deal on the table," he tells JPost editor-in-chief Zvika Klein and the diplomatic report...
In this wide-ranging Jerusalem Post interview, Falk, who served on Israel's hostage negotiating team, rejects the claim that Israel could have secured an earlier release. "There was never a deal on the table," he tells JPost editor-in-chief Zvika Klein and the diplomatic report...
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October 13, 2026 • 40 mins
Author and influencer Oli London once embraced the very ideas he now speaks out against. Three years after October 7, he explains why he stands with Israel.
On his eighth trip to Israel in three years, the author of Gender Madness tells The Jerusalem Post studio manager Lara Sukster Mosheyof how watching the October 7 videos in real time, and the protests that followed within hours, pushed him to speak out despite lost relat...
On his eighth trip to Israel in three years, the author of Gender Madness tells The Jerusalem Post studio manager Lara Sukster Mosheyof how watching the October 7 videos in real time, and the protests that followed within hours, pushed him to speak out despite lost relat...
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October 13, 2026 • 54 mins
Nechumi Yaffe and Ziva Glanz are the first women on a haredi party's Knesset slate, and they say the community needs change that comes from within.
Yaffe is a Tel Aviv University researcher and former National Security Council adviser. Glanz is a businesswoman who helped run a civilian war room after October 7. Both are running with the new Haredi Public party ahead of the October 27 election.
They explain why they le...
Yaffe is a Tel Aviv University researcher and former National Security Council adviser. Glanz is a businesswoman who helped run a civilian war room after October 7. Both are running with the new Haredi Public party ahead of the October 27 election.
They explain why they le...
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October 7, 2026 • 35 mins
Michal Negri's son, Maj. (res.) Roee Negri, rushed to Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7 without being called up and fell fighting there. Now she is running for Knesset with Naftali Bennett.
Three years after October 7, the former director-general of the Ra'anana Municipality describes how her son, a team commander in the IDF's LOTAR counterterrorism unit, gathered his team on his own and fought house by house in Be'eri.
He ...
Three years after October 7, the former director-general of the Ra'anana Municipality describes how her son, a team commander in the IDF's LOTAR counterterrorism unit, gathered his team on his own and fought house by house in Be'eri.
He ...
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October 6, 2026 • 35 mins
Former Likud MK Dan Illouz once defended Netanyahu's record. Now running with Yisrael Beytenu, he says Netanyahu cannot lead Israel after October 7.
In this Jerusalem Post interview, the Montreal-born former lawmaker explains why he left the party he joined before he even signed a lease in Israel. He points to three reasons: the haredi draft exemption bill, Netanyahu's refusal to establish a state commission of inquiry, and ...
In this Jerusalem Post interview, the Montreal-born former lawmaker explains why he left the party he joined before he even signed a lease in Israel. He points to three reasons: the haredi draft exemption bill, Netanyahu's refusal to establish a state commission of inquiry, and ...
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October 5, 2026 • 41 mins
Moshe Feiglin, No. 2 on Smotrich's joint slate, will back Netanyahu, whom he had previously said should have quit on October 8.
Ahead of Israel's October 27 election, and seeking the role of Defense Minister, the Zehut leader lays out a platform built on two ideas: a war against what he calls the "Oslo concept," and libertarian individual freedom. Asked about past remarks on Gaza, Feiglin says: "I don't want to see dead babi...
Ahead of Israel's October 27 election, and seeking the role of Defense Minister, the Zehut leader lays out a platform built on two ideas: a war against what he calls the "Oslo concept," and libertarian individual freedom. Asked about past remarks on Gaza, Feiglin says: "I don't want to see dead babi...
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October 4, 2026 • 36 mins
An Israeli passenger seated by the cockpit of flydubai flight FZ1073 recounts the hijack attempt and how passengers took charge.
Tal, who asked that only his first name be used, lives abroad and was flying from Dubai to Israel to help care for his mother when the aircraft suddenly lurched on Wednesday, September 30. Within moments, passengers in the front of the cabin were subduing one of the pilots while others worked to ke...
Tal, who asked that only his first name be used, lives abroad and was flying from Dubai to Israel to help care for his mother when the aircraft suddenly lurched on Wednesday, September 30. Within moments, passengers in the front of the cabin were subduing one of the pilots while others worked to ke...
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September 28, 2026 • 57 mins
Yoram Hazony, founder of National Conservatism and a key intellectual influence on JD Vance, explains why he says Tucker Carlson has become the right's biggest antisemitism problem.
In this wide-ranging Jerusalem Post interview, the philosopher and Edmund Burke Foundation chairman maps the three warring camps inside today's Republican Party: the nationalist mainstream he says Trump built, the shrinking "liberal wing" of figu...
In this wide-ranging Jerusalem Post interview, the philosopher and Edmund Burke Foundation chairman maps the three warring camps inside today's Republican Party: the nationalist mainstream he says Trump built, the shrinking "liberal wing" of figu...
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September 27, 2026 • 26 mins
In the second part of her interview with The Jerusalem Post, Former Knesset member and Oz Party founder Einat Wilf makes a startling claim: Israel's most important front isn't Gaza or Iran, it's the world's Jews.
Speaking with The Jerusalem Post weeks before Israel's October 27 election, Wilf describes a "rising global psychosis" that casts the Jew as "the obstacle to a better world," and argues that October 7 opened a world...
Speaking with The Jerusalem Post weeks before Israel's October 27 election, Wilf describes a "rising global psychosis" that casts the Jew as "the obstacle to a better world," and argues that October 7 opened a world...
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September 24, 2026 • 47 mins
Former MK Einat Wilf, now third on the Reservists–New Economic Party list, argues Gaza shouldn't be rebuilt until its people choose to end the war.
Ahead of Israel's October 2026 election, Wilf lays out a plan she says no other party will touch: divide Gaza into three.
A small area adjacent to Israel as a permanent price for October 7; a Hamas-run "Gaza of war," reconnected to Egypt and cut off from Israeli supp...
Ahead of Israel's October 2026 election, Wilf lays out a plan she says no other party will touch: divide Gaza into three.
A small area adjacent to Israel as a permanent price for October 7; a Hamas-run "Gaza of war," reconnected to Egypt and cut off from Israeli supp...
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September 23, 2026 • 50 mins
Yoseph Haddad, a Christian Arab Israeli and Golani veteran, is No. 2 on Ofer Winter's right-wing slate. He explains why and what he wants to change.
Haddad spent a decade advocating for Israel abroad before October 7 made him a household name. Ahead of the October 27 election, he is running for the Knesset with Amcha Yisrael (People of Israel) party. He says he wants to become Israel's next public diplomacy (hasbara) ministe...
Haddad spent a decade advocating for Israel abroad before October 7 made him a household name. Ahead of the October 27 election, he is running for the Knesset with Amcha Yisrael (People of Israel) party. He says he wants to become Israel's next public diplomacy (hasbara) ministe...
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September 17, 2026 • 42 mins
Former US deputy presidential envoy to the Middle East, Morgan Ortagus, reveals how she quietly pushed Israel and Lebanon toward direct talks, and why she says Hezbollah cannot survive without Iran. Ortagus, who oversaw the Lebanon file as Deputy US Special Envoy for the Middle East under Steve Witkoff, sits down with The Jerusalem Post's diplomatic reporter, Amichai Stain, to trace the behind-the-scenes effort to bring two neighbo...
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September 4, 2026 • 51 mins
Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett calls Benjamin Netanyahu the man "most responsible for October 7th," then argues Netanyahu should be pardoned and sent home, not jailed.
In this Jerusalem Post interview, Bennett, Israel's prime minister from 2021 to 2022 and now leader of a new party ahead of the 2026 election, lays out the case for his political comeback. He says Netanyahu "should go home… he should be pardoned" as ...
In this Jerusalem Post interview, Bennett, Israel's prime minister from 2021 to 2022 and now leader of a new party ahead of the 2026 election, lays out the case for his political comeback. He says Netanyahu "should go home… he should be pardoned" as ...
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September 3, 2026 • 36 mins
US Ambassador Mike Huckabee makes the case for the US–Israel alliance at a moment he openly admits American support for Israel is at an all-time low.
Sitting down with the Jerusalem Report editor-in-chief, Ruth Marks Eglash, and the diplomatic reporter, Amichai Stein, at the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem, Huckabee argues the partnership pays off for both sides and pushes back on the idea that the relationship is one...
Sitting down with the Jerusalem Report editor-in-chief, Ruth Marks Eglash, and the diplomatic reporter, Amichai Stein, at the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem, Huckabee argues the partnership pays off for both sides and pushes back on the idea that the relationship is one...
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September 2, 2026 • 27 mins
Iranian-born and married into a Jewish family, NeOnc CEO Amir Heshmatpour says he's fighting cancer on two fronts, the brain, and the Iranian regime. In this Jerusalem Post interview, Heshmatpour tells news editor Alex Winston how the Islamic Republic jailed and tortured his father, who died at 46, the loss that shaped his life.
He explains why he calls the regime "a cancer in this part of the world," and describes being in ...
He explains why he calls the regime "a cancer in this part of the world," and describes being in ...
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August 25, 2026 • 19 mins
Dr. Aliza Bloch, Beit Shemesh's first female mayor, turned down a Likud seat to join Erdan and Edelstein's new Unity Party, and she explains why.
After leading one of Israel's most religiously and ethnically mixed cities, Bloch says October 7 convinced her that Israel's real battle is internal: "There is more than one way to be a good person, and nobody has a monopoly on our country or our Torah." She argues that only a broa...
After leading one of Israel's most religiously and ethnically mixed cities, Bloch says October 7 convinced her that Israel's real battle is internal: "There is more than one way to be a good person, and nobody has a monopoly on our country or our Torah." She argues that only a broa...
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August 21, 2026 • 41 mins
Twenty-five years after the Sbarro pizzeria bombing, Arnold and Frimet Roth are still fighting to bring their daughter Malki's killer to justice.
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August 21, 2026 • 32 mins
Israel officially recognizes 3,500 "street dwellers." Ori Shoham, who has worked with them for 13 years, says the real figure is far higher, and nobody is counting. There is no legal definition of homelessness in Israel. What exists is a Ministry of Welfare category called "street dweller," and Shoham says Israel applies the harshest recognition criteria in the OECD: you have to be visibly on the street, visibly neglected, and you ...
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