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'We fought Hamas and fed Hamas at the same time' | IDF general
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- 'We fought Hamas and fed Hamas at the same time' | IDF general
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- 45:31
- Date posted
- 2 hours ago
- Description
- Israel is winning on every front, and Brig. Gen. (res.) Erez Winner says the next war is already being armed inside Israel's own borders.
In his first weeks as chairman of the Israel Defense and Security Forum (IDSF–HaBithonistim), Winner sits down with Anna Ahronheim to argue that Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas have all been militarily defeated, and that the threat Israel is least prepared for is domestic: smuggled illegal weapons, organized crime in Arab society, and an armed Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria that could turn its guns the day Mahmoud Abbas dies.
On Gaza, the former head of Southern Command operational planning is blunt about why the war dragged on: "The failure of not ending this war long ago is a military failure." Israel, he says, spent 2024 fighting Hamas with one hand and feeding it with the other.
Winner spent over a decade drawing the IDF's operational plans in the Southern Command, from Protective Edge through the c...
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- He fought a year in Gaza, now he could be Israel's youngest MK | Yonatan Shalev
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- 51:46
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- 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 list, and what he wants from a seat: a state commission of inquiry into October 7 in the coalition's "first hour," a NIS 1 million benefits package for those who serve, and an end to stipends for those who don't. "We're going to tilt the pyramid."
Shalev also calls Israel "a country in trauma," says the current government is "flaming" Judea and Samaria, backs declaring Qatar an enemy state, and rules out any coalition with parties that reject mandatory service.
His argument is generational: hundreds of thousands of Israelis aged 18 to 30 c...
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- Is Israel written out of the new Middle East order?
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- 38:09
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
- Description
- Netanyahu got his eighth Trump meeting, but no South Portico welcome, no cameras, no one-on-one. Former Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief Yaakov Katz asks what that silence means.
Three months before Israelis vote on October 27, Yaakov Katz argues the more urgent question isn't who won the room, it's whether Israel is still in it. Turkey may get F-35s, Saudi Arabia is moving on a nuclear agreement, and the presidents of Lebanon and Iraq received the White House embrace and Oval Office cameras Netanyahu did not. "Is it possible that there's a new regional order that's being written here, that Israel just might not be one of the coauthors for?" Katz asks. On the anti-Iran coalition forming without Israel: "Israel is not being invited to sit at the table."
Host Jacob presses Katz on two reports that landed this week: unreleased documentary footage of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, in which Graham questions whether Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are suited to Midd...
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- Sderot's population grows 20% since October 7 attack
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
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- The southern Israeli city has grown from 35,000 residents at the start of the war to more than 42,000 today. It has built five new neighborhoods, with officials projecting 70,000 residents within a decade. A summer initiative aims to bring visitors to meet the community.
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- Haskel calls Yair Golan's remarks dangerous and anti-Zionist
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- 0:46
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
- Description
- Speaking to the Post, Sharren Haskel said she had to deal with the results of Yair Golan's actions and lies, calling them anti-Zionist and dangerous. She is pushing for a six-mandate bloc that would deny Netanyahu a coalition with the ultra-Orthodox and Eisenkot one with Arab parties, saying she is in neither's pocket.
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- Herzl's grandparents to be reburied on Mount Herzl
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- 0:23
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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- The remains of Shimon and Rivka Herzl will arrive from Belgrade for reinterment beside their grandson's grave in Jerusalem. The state ceremony is set for August 5, marking 77 years since Theodor Herzl's own reburial. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog will attend. World Zionist Organization Chairman Yaakov Hagoel is leading the effort.
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- 'It's an immoral law': Why Sharren Haskel quit the government
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- 35:29
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
- Description
- She spent a year and a half blocking the haredi draft exemption from inside Netanyahu's coalition. The night it slipped through, Sharren Haskel resigned.
In her first extended sit-down since walking out of the Foreign Ministry, Haskel tells the Jerusalem Post what the final week of the Knesset actually looked like from inside the coalition, including her claim that the anti-exemption bloc was holding at exactly 60 votes, and that her own resignation from the Knesset would have handed the haredi parties their majority. On the law that froze arrests of draft evaders, she is blunt: "We are legislators. We cannot be above the law." Her anger, she says, isn't personal. "I'm not angry for myself. I'm angry for those who have really paid that price. And I know how much they feel betrayed."
Haskel is a rare figure in Israeli politics: hawkish on security, classically liberal on economics, and now homeless on a map that has hardened into two blocs. She explains why the...
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- Why Israeli defense startups deploy faster than US rivals
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- 1:24
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
- Description
- The most-repeated claim about Israeli defense tech is wrong, says the deep tech investor Zack Fagan. Israel's real advantage is something far less glamorous.
In this clip, [Guest] takes apart the idea that Israel is uniquely populated by founders who have "deployed in the field," pointing out that a large share of US defense tech founders have combat experience too.
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- Space is already a battlefield, says Israeli venture capitalist Zach Fagan
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- 40:46
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
- Description
- Quantum computing has no dominant player yet, and that, argues deep tech investor Zack Fagan, is exactly why Israel's next category-defining company may come from it.
Zack Fagan is a partner at Earth & Beyond Ventures, one of the only early-stage funds in Israel dedicated entirely to deep tech. In this conversation with Jerusalem Post defense correspondent Anna Ahronheim, he argues that the constraint on AI progress is no longer the processor: the trouble is delivering power to the chips, dissipating the heat, and moving data across the interconnect. His analogy is blunt: a GPU that can handle a thousand data points is worthless if the wire between components only moves a hundred at a time. On quantum, he is equally direct: no one has succeeded in deploying a full-stack, end-to-end quantum computer that does something genuinely useful, and unlike the SaaS era, more capital does not reliably produce better outcomes in deep tech.
Fagan also pushes back on a stor...
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- Smotrich lays out his party's case to voters
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- Religious Zionist Party chair Bezalel Smotrich says his party introduced tax exemptions, foreign diploma recognition and rental assistance for new immigrants, and expanded the Aliyah Ministry. He cites judicial reform, opposition to dividing the land, and an economy with a strong shekel and record-breaking high-tech sector.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-903730
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- 'Only Likud can', did they? Netanyahu's four-year record
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- 8:09
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- Netanyahu just became the first Israeli PM since 1988 to finish a full four-year term. So what did his coalition actually do with the time?
The 2022 campaign ran on "only Likud can," restore deterrence, crack down on crime, cut the cost of living, deliver free daycare for every child under three. Four years later the record splits hard.
Roughly 31,000 rockets and missiles were fired at Israel across the term, including some 5,000 on October 7 alone by IDF estimates.
Murders in Arab communities rose from 116 in 2022 to a record 252 in 2025, with firearms used in 85–90% of killings, and by late 2025 around 65% of Israelis reported little or no faith in the police. As the video puts it: "Inflation did cool, but the cost of living didn't."
There are real wins in here too, rail, light rail, ports, broadband and energy generation all improved measurably, and inflation is on track to stay inside the Bank of Israel's 1–3% target after hit...
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- Massive fire hits Sderot factories, no injuries reported
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- 0:20
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- A blaze engulfing Strauss and Tapugan factories in Sderot drew 25 fire crews and two planes on Monday morning. Authorities ruled out a feared ammonia leak, and no injuries were reported. Residents in the nearby neighborhood were told to stay indoors with windows shut. Strauss says snack production continues as usual.
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- The general who built Israel's cyber arm on what comes next
- Runtime
- 40:18
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- The pagers, the strike on Iran's leadership, the alerts that reach Israelis five minutes before the sirens, one man's fingerprints are on the system behind all of it.
Prof. Itzchak Ben-Israel initiated the IDF's first offensive cyber unit in 1992, later led Israel's National Cyber Initiative, and now warns that the entire edifice of digital secrecy is on a ten-year clock.
Speaking to Jerusalem Post senior military analyst Yonah Jeremy Bob, he explains how cyber and AI shaped the war with Iran, from identifying mobile missile launchers across a country too vast for human analysts, to the intelligence that made precision timing possible, and why quantum computing will render today's encryption worthless: "No matter what password you use, in a fraction of a second I will break it."
What follows is not only a warning. Ben-Israel lays out the two escape routes, post-quantum algorithms that are secure but slow, and quantum encryption, where a message p...
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- Ohad Tal pitches Religious Zionist vision for Israel
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- 0:51
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- MK Ohad Tal says the Religious Zionist Party will make Israel "stronger and more democratic" through winning current wars, applying sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, and completing judicial reform. The former head of World Bnei Akiva, a Jewish youth movement operating in 34 countries, says fixing the judicial system will ensure voter choices are honored at the ballot box.
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- 'Never grow up': Inside Israel's new Peter Pan musical
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- 4:54
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
- Description
- Peter Pan: a flying, music-filled staging built on one deceptively simple idea: some of us are never meant to grow up.
Filmed in the final month of rehearsals, this behind-the-scenes look goes inside a production that reads Peter Pan less as a children's adventure and more as a story about the people left waiting at home.
As Ofir Weil (Mr. Smee) puts it, "the story is about parents who wait for their kids to come back home." Meshi Kleinstein (Wendy), insists: "I myself am a little girl and I'll never grow up, and it's fun for me." Between the choreography run-throughs and the songs still being pieced together, a shared conviction emerges, that "all of us need to keep our Peter Pan alive."
What sets this staging apart is the ambition behind it: the director Hanoch Rosen, who was once Peter Pan, drawing on large-scale international productions, from Las Vegas to festivals around the world, applied to Barrie's most enduring legend.
The...
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- Thousands gather at Western Wall for Tisha B'Av lamentations
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- 1:24
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
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- Gender segregation on Israeli streets?
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- 0:41
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
- Description
- Jerusalem Post political correspondent Keshet Neev breaks down the flagship laws passed in the final weeks of the Netanyahu government: weakening the attorney general, overhauling the broadcasting sector, and enacting gender segregation in higher education.
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- What does Eisenkot's lead in the polls really tell us about the shift in Israeli political mindset?
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- 0:50
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
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- Israel heads to elections, and no one trusts the process
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- 32:31
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
- Description
- Israeli elections have barely been called and already the Shin Bet is warning of threats to their integrity, AI-generated attack ads are flooding the campaign, and Bibi's own coalition is turning on itself in public.
The Jerusalem Post political correspondent Keshet Neev joins host Jacob Laznik on The Deep Dive to unpack the most volatile opening to an Israeli election season in years. They break down President Herzog's warning about election interference, the Likud AI ad depicting Eisenkot embracing Mansour Abbas, and why Eisenkot overtaking Netanyahu in the polls could shift the entire opposition bloc's momentum.
As Keshet puts it, "the second that Likud isn't the biggest party anymore… it kind of shifts the sense" of the whole race.
They also dig into the internal Likud primary fight over Netanyahu's demand to hand-pick the top eight slots, Rabbi Dov Landau's remarks against the IDF and Netanyahu's rare public pushback, Ben-Gvir's condition ...
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- Thousands gathered at the Kotel as Tisha B'Av began
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- 0:35
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
- Description
- Worshippers filled the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem to mark the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, mourning the destruction of the First and Second Temples. Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben Gvir and former PM Naftali Bennett were among the political figures seen at the site.
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- Israel now controls 70% of the Gaza Strip
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
- Description
- The IDF has expanded its hold from the 53% outlined in the ceasefire agreement, despite Trump's 20-point peace plan requiring Hamas to disarm.
Netanyahu signaled further expansion, saying Israel is closing in from every direction. Former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot warns Netanyahu is failing to turn military gains into diplomacy, with October elections approaching.
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- Moldova: Wine, Jewish heritage and hidden treasures
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- 1:06:53
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
- Description
- Moldova is one of Europe's most delightful surprises. Blessed with rolling vineyards, picturesque countryside, welcoming cities, and a fascinating blend of cultures, this small nation offers visitors an authentic and unforgettable experience.
Renowned for producing some of the world's finest wines, Moldova is also home to a remarkable Jewish heritage that spans centuries. From the elegant boulevards and lively markets of Chișinău to ancient monasteries carved into the cliffs of Old Orhei, this journey uncovers a country where history, tradition, and hospitality combine to create one of Eastern Europe's most captivating destinations.
This time:
• Discovering the contrasting sides of Chișinău, from lively markets to elegant parks and boulevards.
• Moldova's Jewish community and learning about Jewish life today.
• Exploring Chișinău's unique Jewish Cemetery Museum project.
• Visiting three renowned wineries, including Carleva...
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- Iran fired 1,500 missiles at Israel. Guess how many hit
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- 0:41
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
- Description
- Iran launched over 1,500 projectiles at Israel, and nearly every single one was intercepted.
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- Iran fired 1,500 drones at Israel. Nearly none hit
- Runtime
- 59:05
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
- Description
- Since October 7, Israel's defense R&D directorate has pushed weapons from concept to combat in weeks, and now works with more than 300 startups. Col. Yishai Cohen explains how.
In this episode of Defense & Tech by The Jerusalem Post, Anna Ahronheim sits down with Col. Yishai Cohen, a senior official at MAFAT, Israel's Directorate of Defense Research and Development, for a rare look inside the organization that decides which technologies reach Israeli soldiers, and how fast. Cohen describes software fixes pushed to live weapon systems within days of October 7, capabilities against Iran that spent two decades in development before being fired for the first time, and others assembled in the final weeks before the fighting began. On Iran's long-range drone campaign, he is blunt: more than 1,500 fixed-wing UAVs were launched at Israel, and he says only two hits were recorded. "Low tech works," he says of the improvised fishing nets soldiers used against short-range drones, a re...
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- Charred First Temple beams unearthed in Jerusalem dig
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- 0:31
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
- Description
- The Israel Antiquities Authority announced Monday that archaeologists uncovered massive wooden beams charred in the 586 BCE Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem, found inside a collapsed building at the City of David. Melted plaster sealed and preserved the wood for 2,600 years. The beams' unusually numerous growth rings could narrow dating ranges to as little as ten years.
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- 'The cyber war is endless': Iran and Israel's digital front
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- 0:38
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
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- The dangers of cyber: a tiny Trojan could rival Hiroshima
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- 45:43
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
- Description
- Dr. Harel Menashri helped found the Shin Bet's cyber division in the 1990s, when his superiors dismissed his warnings as "mumbo jumbo." He has spent 25 years being proven right.
In this interview with Jerusalem Post senior military analyst Yonah Jeremy Bob, Menashri describes the demonstration that changed the Israeli government's mind: a tiny Trojan, downloaded off the internet, that he says could have produced damage "very similar to Hiroshima" and killed much of the population around the Haifa Bay.
He walks through exactly how code kills people, manipulating SCADA sensors on a gas pipeline until pressure hits a lethal number, or attacking a rail signaling system so a chemical train derails in central Tel Aviv.
On Iran, he is blunt: they are, he says, "champions in the world" at weaponizing known vulnerabilities, and the cyber war never paused when the shooting stopped.
The second half turns to China and AI. Menashri points to res...
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- Europe is still buying Israeli cyber at scale
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
- Description
- A managing partner at Planven VC, Eran Westman told the Jerusalem Post that European enterprises are purchasing Israeli technology in large volume despite geopolitical tension.
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- Another fire disrupts Israel’s rail network after West Bank wildfires
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- 0:25
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
- Description
- Wildfires that swept through the West Bank on Saturday caused widespread damage, and on Sunday another blaze near railway tracks disrupted train service across parts of central and southern Israel.
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- Title
- Israel is the cyber powerhouse, like it or not
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- 47:25
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
- Description
- Israel is still the world's cyber powerhouse, and European buyers separate politics from procurement, Planven Managing Partner Eran Westman explains why.
Westman splits his time between Zurich and Tel Aviv running a fund he calls "dual citizenship." He pushes back on the idea that Israeli tech has become hard to sell in Europe: buyers "know to distinguish between geopolitical or political views and choosing the best technology."
The real problem, he argues, is that Israeli founders treat Europe as a second market and arrive too late. He also explains why "I'll do Europe" fails the same way "I'll do Asia" always did, and tells the story behind Nozomi Networks' billionaire sale to Mitsubishi Electric.
Chapters
00:00 - Israel as a cyber powerhouse, even where it has no friends
01:10 - Inside Planven: a dual-citizenship fund, Zurich to Tel Aviv
03:40 - Where to open your first European office
09:02 - Why European enterprises b...
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- The AMIA bombing killed 85 people 32 years ago
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
- Description
- A car bomb tore through the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994. It killed 85 people and wounded over 300, still the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentina's history. Two years earlier, a bomb at the Israeli embassy killed 22. In 2024 an Argentine court ruled Iran ordered both attacks and Hezbollah carried out the AMIA bombing. Iran denies any role.
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- Why isn't Israel fighting Iran this time?
- Runtime
- 1:01
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
- Description
- As US-aligned forces and Iran trade strikes, Israel, unusually, isn't a direct participant.
The hosts argue the deterrence math explains it: an Iranian strike on the US base in Israel would bring two militaries down on Tehran instead of one, so Iran has reason to avoid it.
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- Title
- Can Israel still enforce its own military draft?
- Runtime
- 0:57
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
- Description
- The Knesset approved the Basic Law: Torah Study and a temporary freeze on arresting draft dodgers, during a manpower crisis the IDF chief of staff publicly warned against.
Because Basic Laws carry constitutional weight, critics argue the state could lose its ability to compel Haredi enlistment even on national-security grounds. Israel's High Court has moved to freeze the second law.
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- Netanyahu's draft-law blitz before Israel's election
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- 38:02
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
- Description
- Israel's most turbulent political stretch in four years just collided with an election date. As Netanyahu's Likud rams through two of the most contentious laws in the country's history, host Jacob Laznik breaks down what it means.
With the vote set for October 27, the coalition has unleashed a legislative blitz, succeeding where it matters most, on the haredi draft exemptions, over the public warnings of senior officials and the IDF chief of staff himself. Laznik and the Post's breaking-news desk manager, Shir Perets, unpack why these laws challenge Israel's constitutional order, and why they land at Netanyahu's most vulnerable moment
The fallout is already visible: Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel has resigned, and Minister Ofir Sofer says he won't run again.
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- Title
- Knesset stands in silence for Senator Lindsey Graham
- Runtime
- 0:43
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- Lawmakers from across the political spectrum rose to honor Graham, the South Carolina Republican and longtime Israel ally who died July 11 at age 71. After October 7, he organized a bipartisan Senate delegation to Israel. Netanyahu called him "one of Israel's greatest friends."
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- He used to crawl through tunnels. Now his robot does.
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- Robotican's Rooster rolls to save power and only flies when it has to. It's small enough for tunnels a soldier can't even stand up in. Three go in as a pack, relaying each other's signal underground. A pack runs about $100k. The CEO told The Jerusalem Post why he built it: so the machine goes in, and a person doesn't.
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- 'It stays with you forever': How Shalva inspires diplomacy
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- 17:09
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- Wives of ambassadors and mission staff from several countries walked into a Jerusalem children's center one morning, and left having started a movement to carry disability care back home.
They call it the Diplomatic Ladies Circle, and it is exactly one morning old. Founded by three women, one who moved from Brazil because of this place, one an ambassador's wife from Paraguay, and one an ambassador's wife from Pnama, it brought together diplomatic women from Panama, Paraguay, Argentina, Taiwan, Rwanda, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Cyprus and many others, around a single, deliberately modest idea: do one small thing for disability inclusion in each country, then add it up.
As one founder put it, the goal was to reach people with the possibility to impact the entire world. Argentina's representative described what convinced her, a country that cares for these people this way "speaks volumes about its moral values."
At the center of it is Shalva, ...
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- Gadi Taub: 'October 7 proved the pessimism of the right was prophetic'
- Runtime
- 1:06:15
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- 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 Zvika Klein, The Jerusalem Post's editor-in-chief, historian Dr. Gadi Taub retraces the defection that took him from Peace Now demonstrations to the front line of the fight over Israel's Supreme Court, its media and its national identity.
He dates the break to Camp David in 2000, "Why would they not take it, even if they want the whole?" and says October 7 closed the case: "The optimism of the left was unfounded and the pessimism of the right was prophetic."
But he is no loyalist. He calls Itamar Ben-Gvir "a lot of noise and not enough substance," faults Netanyahu for letting the judicial problem fester for decades, and admits there is "a lot" of sloppy journalis...
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- Young French olim receive Israeli IDs in Jerusalem
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- Six young French women were handed their official Israeli ID cards at the National Library of Israel. One new immigrant said she sees her future in Israel - marriage, children, a life - and no longer sees herself in Europe because of antisemitism. Around 2,200 French olim are expected this year, including roughly 700 to 800 students and young people.
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- Inside the Maccabiah Opening Ceremony 2026
- Runtime
- 4:59
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- Join Senior field reporter Sam Halpern inside the opening ceremony of the 22nd Maccabiah Games.
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- Title
- 'Shame on him': Elie Wiesel's son on Rahm Emanuel's Israel speech
- Runtime
- 0:55
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- Elisha Wiesel, son of Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, delivered a direct rebuttal to Rahm Emanuel at Yad Vashem, days after the potential Democratic presidential candidate told an audience at Tel Aviv University that Israel's leadership had turned the country into a "territorial pariah."
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- Title
- Torah study enshrined in Israel's Basic Law
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- The Knesset passed the Torah study law on Monday night, in its second and third readings. Critics say it can encourage draft evasion while the IDF is short of soldiers.
A separate bill would freeze arrests of Haredi draft evaders.
"We must defeat draft evasion before it defeats us," says Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman. The opposition has vowed to undo it.
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- Elie Wiesel's son rejects Rahm Emanuel's 'pariah' verdict on Israel
- Runtime
- 28:16
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- 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 Lara Sukster Mosheyof at Yad Vashem, hours before delivering a speech built as a point-by-point refutation of Rahm Emanuel's July 8 address at Tel Aviv University. Emanuel, a likely 2028 Democratic candidate, warned Israelis they "cannot fight indefinitely against a world that has stopped believing you have the right to fight." Wiesel's answer is blunt: "Mr. Emanuel is embarrassed by Israel. He is proud of that embarrassment. He should be ashamed." For Wiesel, the premise itself is the problem — his father's moral vision, he argues, held that no Jewish right to live was ever conditional on the world's approval.
The conversation ranges far beyond the political moment. Wiesel describes the bl...
- Title
- Maccabiah Games unite Jewish athletes across Tel Aviv
- Runtime
- 0:58
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- The 22nd Maccabiah Games, known as the Jewish Olympics, are underway across Tel Aviv, drawing over 8,000 athletes from roughly 55 countries. Postponed a year over regional security, the event has turned the city's Expo into a family-friendly "Maccabiah City." Competitors in national uniforms describe the atmosphere as unifying, fun and unique.
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- Title
- Maccabiah medallist says the medals aren't the point
- Runtime
- 0:38
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- Joel Solomon, a 21-year-old runner from Sydney, leaves his first Maccabiah Games with three medals – on his first trip to Israel. The hardware isn't the main thing, he says; connecting with Jewish athletes from around the world is. Elsewhere, feeling Jewish means going to synagogue or a Chabad event. Here, eating hummus in Jerusalem is enough.
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- Title
- Wearing Australia's singlet after Bondi
- Runtime
- 0:28
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- Joel Solomon, 21, competed at the Maccabiah Games, says he ran a Jerusalem half marathon alongside a fellow Australian athlete who was running for Matilda – the 10-year-old killed in the December 14 Bondi Beach attack – and for every Jewish Australian it touched. Australia is "not the prettiest place to be a Jewish person" right now, he says. Representing them is what the singlet means.
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- Title
- Deputy FM Haskel mourns Senator Lindsey Graham
- Runtime
- 0:58
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel paid tribute to Senator Lindsey Graham, who died Saturday at 71 after a brief and sudden illness. Haskel said Israel "lost a real friend" and owes him a great debt. She said Graham understood America must invest in allies, not in radical Islamism - which she called investing in hatred toward America itself.
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- Title
- Yemeni forces strike Sana'a airport to block Iranian plane
- Runtime
- 0:25
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- Yemeni forces struck the runway of the Houthi-controlled Sana'a International Airport to stop an Iranian plane from landing, the anti-Houthi Defense Ministry confirmed. The ministry warned its "patience has run out" over Iranian and Houthi violations of Yemeni airspace. Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree vowed a "decisive" response. IRGC-linked Fars reported the plane later landed in Hodeidah.
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- Title
- Why AI could be your best friend, or your worst enemy
- Runtime
- 0:35
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
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- Title
- Iran's cyber war on Israel never stopped: 'There is no ceasefire in cyberspace'
- Runtime
- 35:37
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- 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 years in the IDF's elite Unit 8200, tells Yonah Jeremy Bob why she agrees. "The ceasefire is only for the missiles," she says. "Our infrastructures are constantly under attack." Each of those incidents, she explains, is a potential strike on water, power, rail or hospitals, the 2020 Iranian breach of an Israeli water system being the case study nobody forgot.
But the sharpest warning in this interview isn't about infrastructure. It's about your family. Two minutes of recorded audio is now enough to clone a voice convincingly, and according to police figures cited here, ei...
