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Trump: We know exactly where Khamenei is hiding, not going to kill him for now

Trump has threatened to eliminate the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, if Iran does not submit to unconditional surrender.

Iran fires missiles into Israeli territory, IDF strikes in western Tehran

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and US President Donald Trump (illustrative)

Israel's plan to strike Fordow nuclear facility ready if order is given - IDF

Fordow is the most important Iranian nuclear facility, which the IDF has not yet touched, but it poses unique challenges, being that it lies underneath a mountain.

A handout satellite image shows a general view of the Natanz nuclear facility after a fire, in Natanz, Iran July 8, 2020

Fire of Israeli attack on Sharan Oil depot is seen following the Israeli strikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2025

How IDF intelligence got to point where it could take down Iran

The Israeli military's intelligence preparation allowed the air force to gain supremacy over the skies of Tehran in the first 24 hours of Operation Rising Lion.

Trump leans toward Iran strikes after Huckabee’s divine exhortation

Then-Lieutenant General Michael Kurilla testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on his nomination to become Commander of Central Command during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, February 8, 2022.

CENTCOM warned Iran was 'mere steps' from nuclear weapons before IDF strikes began

Hundreds flee Iran to Azerbaijan amid rampant Israeli strikes

The evolving mystery of whether Israel destroyed Natanz centrifuges: IDF, Grossi trade reversals

This picture released by the US Navy shows a ship of the Iranian Navy and members of the Iranian forces boarding civilian tanker WILA en-route to the UAE, in international waters in the Strait of Hormuz, August 12, 2020

Two oil tankers collide and catch fire near Strait of Hormuz

An Azeri service member looks at the ancient Khodaafarin Bridge near the border with Iran in the area, in Jabrayil District, December 7, 2020.

Hundreds flee Iran to Azerbaijan amid rampant Israeli strikes

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei visits the defense achievements exhibition in Tehran, Iran, February 12, 2025

Iran leader Khamenei sees his inner circle hollowed out by Israel

Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Sa'ar against backdrop of scene of Washington murder, May 22, 2025. (illustration)

Iran's next military chief must be 'extremely cautious,' Israel's FM says

One Family mobilizes as war with Iran escalates

While Israeli families suffer loss and pain, OneFamily, the national organization for the care of bereaved families and the wounded, calls the public to take action.

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One Family

Moshe Saville, CEO of One Family, visiting the wounded at Wolfson Hospital

Israel at War

Israel at War

Gaza war: IDF reinvades Jabalya for first time since Iran attacks

At least 59 Palestinians killed in mass casualty event near Gaza food site, medics say

Troops operating in Jabalya in northern Gaza, June 17, 2025.

March for Gaza activists 'abducted, beaten' by Egyptian guards, organizers say

IDF troops operating in the West Bank, June 17, 2025.

IDF expands northern W. Bank op. amid Iran war

(L-R) Defense Minister Israel Katz, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei

Israel Katz threatens Khamenei: Be careful you don't end up like Saddam Hussein

Israel News

Israel News

Birthright Israel participants set sail for Cyprus after boat organized exit from Israel

Since Friday, the participants on the funded trip to Israel have been near protected areas in central Israel.

Public support for Iran strikes high among Jewish Israelis, deeply divided from Arab Israelis

Birthright Israel participants are seen embarking on a Mano Maritime cruise ship amid evacuation from Israel, June 17, 2025

G7 leaders say Israel has right to defend itself in statement on Iran strikes

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One after departing early from the the G7 summit in Canada to return to Washington, June 17, 2025

El Al, Arkia to launch evacuation flights from Europe for stranded Israelis on Wednesday

El Al flight at Ben Gurion International Airport, May 13, 2025

Iran missiles severely damage Weizmann Institute labs, 'irreplaceable' samples destroyed

Jpost Spotlight

Iranian Jews pray at the Abrishami synagogue at Palestine street in Tehran December 24, 2015..

Ancient Iranian Jewish community publicly backs Tehran’s call for ‘crushing’ reply

Staff Sergeant Naveh Leshem.

IDF announces St.-Sgt. Naveh Leshem killed in Gaza

Incoming commander of the IDF Military Intelligence Shlomi Binder speaks during a replacing ceremony held at the IDF Intelligence Command headquarters in Glilot, August 21, 2024.

IDF intel. chief: We broke into the Iranian regime, and will be breaking into more targets

Masa fellowship.

Masa volunteer in Israel: A first time in uncertain times

Analyses & Features

Analyses & Features

Israel targeting Khamenei: Are the days of Iran’s supreme leader numbered?

The fact this is even a topic for debate now shows how fragile the Islamic Republic’s regime has become.

IDF drone destroys Iranian F-14 fighter jets in Tehran airbase just before taking off

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks after Eid al-Fitr prayers to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan, in Tehran, Iran, March 31, 2025.

IDF kills Iranian general Ali Shademani days after striking predecessor

Damage to residential buildings in Tel Aviv, June 16, 2025.

Smotrich announces benefits for displaced Israelis, disputing reports of minimal compensation

Two IDF soldiers with a United Hatzalah therapy dog, Hope, as part of a new psychotraumatic support program, June 2025.

United Hatzalah provides dog therapy to survivors, first responders at missile impact sites

Business & Innovation

Business & Innovation

IDF's Home Front Command to reduce warning time ahead of Iranian missile attacks

Home Front Command will continue to send a message when it is safe to exit the shelter.

Haifa oil refinery's facilities shut down following Iranian missile strike

Rescue forces at the scene where a missile launched from Iran fell in the city of Safed, June 16, 2025

Israel-Iran escalation raises regional security, geopolitical risk - Fitch, S&P

THE STOCK exchange flag flies between two Israeli flags at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange building. In 2024, the Israeli stock market outperformed all major stock indices, including the NASDAQ 100, the S&P 500, and the FTSE 100, the writers point out.

No shortage of dairy products, no need to hoard food - Economy Minister Barkat

Economy Minister Nir Barkat visits a Tnuva dairy.

Analysis

IRGC's 'unique' Shahed 107 drone still fails to penetrate IDF defense

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DHGATE

MDA Heroes

Ono Conversation Corner

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Real Estate Listings

Antisemitism

Antisemitism

'Every Jew, Israeli is banned': Turkish-German tailor shop under fire for Facebook post

The owner of the tailoring business insists he has nothing to do with the post, stating his account was hacked.

Fighting antisemitism requires healing the Jewish political divides

Berlin, Germany.

Opinion

The high horse of Jewish dissent: Why some Jews attack Israel and support Hamas

Former Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger, speaks at the George W. Bush Presidential Center's 2019 Forum on Leadership in Dallas, Texas, U.S., April 11, 2019.

ByMICAH HALPERN

Iran's octopus: Report uncovers the regime’s political, cultural infiltration of the UK

People demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament during a protest against the Islamic regime of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, in central London, Britain, October 8, 2022.

Opinion

Israel can sanction UK lawmakers just as they sanctioned Israeli ministers

ByNEVILLE TELLER

World News

World News

'Israel acted as an ally of the Iranian people,' dissident journalist tells 'Post'

Ghorbani, who left his home country in 2014, praised Israel's strikes: "They are everything the Iranian people have dreamed of for the past 46 years."

Sudan army repels RSF attack on El Fasher, dozens reported killed

Niyak Ghorbani.

Trump wants Iran to 'give up entirely' on nuclear weapons, seeking 'real end' rather than ceasefire

Iranian and Israeli flags are seen next to each other as silhouettes of two soldiers are shown back to back (Illustrative).

No time for diplomacy: The West must stand with Israel against Iran

View of the almost empty Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, after all flights were cancelled following an Israeli attack on Iran, June 13, 2025.

Action over words: In moments of crisis, Greece and Cyprus stepped up for Israel

In Collaboration

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Yossi Kransdorf, manager of the Visitors’ Center, attends to guests at the Shiloh Winery.

Hamilton Lane Israel head at firm’s 2025 investor event

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Juan Delgado, Co-CEO; Limor Beker, Head of Israel; Yuval Raphael, Israel’s 2025 Eurovision rep.; Andrea Kramer COO; Mario Giannini, Executive Co-Chairman

Understanding the mind of Albert Einstein

PRODUCER-DIRECTOR Davies, whose current project is the film ‘Einstein’s Incredible Universe.’

Middle East

Middle East

Trump expected to offer Iran 'last-chance' proposal, sources tell 'Post'

An Israeli official told the Post that, as of now, Israel has not received any official approach.

Israel launches additional airstrikes on western Iran

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he departs the White House to attend the G7 summit in Canada, in Washington, DC, US, June 15, 2025

Cyberattack on IRGC-controlled bank causes disruptions, Iranian media claims

Iranians walk past a Sepah Bank branch in the capital Tehran, on June 15, 2022; illustrative.

Opinion

How a hostage deal now can help defeat the Iranian regime and secure Israel's future

Demonstrators protest against the Israeli government and for the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip outside military headquarters in Tel Aviv, June 7 2025.

BySEFFI JONAS

Iranian barrage of 20 ballistic missiles fired at Israel, bus depot set on fire

Emergency personnel work to extinguish a fire on a bus, following a missile attack from Iran, in Herzliya, Israel, June 17, 2025

Environment & Climate Change

Environment & Climate Change

China pulls decade of rubbish from park that inspired sci-fi film 'Avatar'

The Zhangjiajie park is a UNESCO heritage site that provided inspiration for the scenery in director James Cameron's 2009 sci-fi film.

A view of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in China's southern Hunan province May 10, 2004.

Watch

Wildfire near Jerusalem's Ein Kerem under control

A firefighting aircraft operates at the site of a fire that broke out near Jerusalem, Israel, June 9, 2025

Teenager killed, 68 wounded as earthquake rocks Greek islands, Turkey

Debris is seen on the ground next to a building, following an earthquake that hit the island of Crete, in Heraklion, Greece, May 22, 2025.

China-backed militia secures control of new rare earth mines in Myanmar

Health & Wellness

Health & Wellness

Israel under fire: English-language resources for state of emergency

Here is a list of some of the places people in Israel can find help for the various challenges created by the state of emergency

Israelis take cover in a public shelter in Jerusalem, during a ballistic missile attack fired from Iran into Israel June 15, 2025.

Neve Michael acts as sanctuary for children amid rising threats from Iran

Israelis take cover in a public shelter in Jerusalem, during a ballistic missile attack fired from Iran into Israel June 13, 2025.

Israeli calls to mental health hotlines spike amid Iranian missile barrages

Illustrative photo of a premature birth

MDA evacuates premature infants ahead of expected Iranian retaliation

Aliyah

Aliyah

Rebuilding from rubble: Olah's story of survival after Iranian missile strike destroys home

Marissa Sarfatti thought that her plan for the Iranian attack was solid. But after tragedy struck, she is left to pick up the pieces and rebuild entirely anew.

Organized summer fun in Jerusalem: A guide to choosing the best summer camp for your kids

A bloody floor in a Tel Aviv apartment that was struck by an Iranian missile, June 16, 2025.

Jewish Agency slams Likud MK for comments against Reform Judaism

Opinion

Building Jewish resilience: A three-year journey with Jewish Federations of North America

Shira Berkovitch: A New Jersey native transforming children's education in Israel

Israel Real Estate

Israel Real Estate

What does a NIS 50 million penthouse look like? Major deal signed in Neve Tzedek

Amid a market slowdown, Prashkovsky Group reports a rare sale: a preserved penthouse in Neve Tzedek sold for NIS 50 million. The firm balances historic preservation with broad urban renewal efforts.

After the war: Institutional investors believe in the north and are investing heavily

Prashkovsky Penthouse in Neve Tzedek

The project that proves there’s another way: How urban renewal can move fast

Rendering: HaSavorai 2–4 Tel Aviv project

Right now, as rockets fly: Major urban renewal begins in Holon

Rendering: HaGeonim 6–8 Holon

Unprecedented: 800 villas to be demolished – Massive urban renewal in Be'er Ya'akov begins

Illustration: Private house

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Read Israel news in easy Hebrew with Ivrit

The Ivrit magazine is for people with basic reading abilities in Hebrew who want to improve their knowledge of the language.

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The International Jerusalem Post, a weekly digest, publishes the best of the Jerusalem Post's news for the readers abroad.

Conference

Florida Sen. Rick Scott is interviewed at The Jerusalem Post's Annual Conference in New York, US, May 19, 2025'

Trump admin. stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel, Steve Witkoff says

NYC Mayor Eric Adams, Israeli Economics Minister Nir Barkat sign economic partnership

ANeustart wins Next-Gen Women entrepreneurship award at Jerusalem Post Women Leaders Summit

MDA Heroes

A Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance at an Ofakim MDA station.

Reflecting on Oct. 7: 'Everyone knew exactly what they needed to do'

Meet the medic who understood on Oct. 7 she must do everything to save a child

MDA hero: We’re here for each and every person who is sick or injured

Podcasts

The Jerusalem Post Senior Editor David Brinn joined The Jerusalem Post studio to share his experience of heading to the public bomb shelters during the most recent attacks by Iran.

Dodging missiles and sleeping in shelters: How are Israelis impacted by Iran strikes?

'We're all settlers anywhere we live in Israel': Jewish West Bank residents tell all

'The war in Gaza, will come to us:' Palestinians, Israeli Arabs share how war has impacted them

US Politics

The writer with now US President Donald J. Trump

I urge you, President Trump, to be Churchill not Chamberlain on Iran’s nuclear program - opinion

Trump doesn't want US to join Israel-Iran conflict, CNN White House team report

How Netanyahu and Trump fooled the media over the Iran strike

Diaspora

On the last Friday of the season at Camp Ramah Nyack in 2019, anyone spending the next year in Israel is called up and invited to dance with the Israeli staffers in a Zionist celebration.

Their counselors stuck in Israel, US Jewish camps are putting out ‘Help Wanted’ signs

'Miracle' in Dharamsala: Missing American-Israeli hiker in India found alive after nine days

Brick reading ‘Free Palestine’ thrown through window of Boston-area kosher grocery store

Judaism

AN ILLUSTRATION OF a haredi man and an IDF soldier standing side by side, united, as is the army standing behind them, under a colorful blue and white Israeli flag

We say we want haredim to join but do we mean it?

Did a mystic rabbi foresee Israel’s Iran strike eight years ago?

What does halacha say about keeping Shabbat while under possible Iranian attack?

Christian World

A general view shows part of the exterior of St. Catherine's monastery in south Sinai, Egypt, March 7, 2019.

Egypt, Greece agree to protect status of Mount Sinai monastery, after court ruling

Pope Leo appeals for 'reason' amid Israel-Iran airstrikes, calls for dialogue

Pro-Israel Christian student org. donates $100,000 to honor Majdal Shams victims

Food

The Jerusalem Post’s Erica Schachne and Seth J. Frantzman bring you a special taste-testing extravaganza.

Conflict & Cuisine: The 'Post' taste tests summer drinks to go with your summer news

With two oceans and 48 kosher eateries, Panama is a kosher tourist's dream

Sandwich of champions: Memes of Greta Thunberg receiving challah sandwich brings Israeli nostalgia

Archaeology

Argentina's Prime Minister Javier Milei receives the Genesis Prize at the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem, June 12, 2025.

2,000-year-old ‘Freedom of Zion’ coin unearthed in Jerusalem stuns Milei

Archaeologists reveal mythological scene on ancient sarcophagus found in Caesarea

Sacred stones scandal: How a five-ton Kotel relic shook Jerusalem

Science

IDF strikes Iran

Who are the nuclear brains Israel assassinated?

Dead Sea Scrolls aged decades older by AI-powered discovery

AI can outperform humans in emotional intelligence tests

Culture

THE ISRAEL Under-18 team celebrates in August 2024 after qualifying for this year’s U19 World Championships, a tournament that is now in jeopardy for the blue-and-white squad due to the ongoing war with Iran

Israeli basketball team given 24-hour ultimatum on FIBA U19 World Cup participation

Israeli musicians help Jews worldwide cope with post-October 7 trauma

Maccabiah Games postponed to 2026 in shadow of Israel's war with Iran

History

Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani walks near an Iranian missile during an unveiling ceremony in Tehran, Iran, in this picture obtained on February 17, 2024.

45 years ago, Iran waged its own preemptive strike on nuclear facilities

Golan Heights: Where history, conflict, and compassion meet

This week in Jewish history: Anne Frank’s first diary entry, Israel bombs Iraqi nuke reactor

OMG

The real danger is on the way to the shelter

Israelis receive fake terror attack warning to trick them into staying out of bomb shelters

Iranian media claims to hit Israeli planes, but footage was actually a video game

Violent man claiming to be Messiah smashes up Milwaukee synagogue causing $100,000 in damages

Consumerism

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Astrology

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