4 July

US to issue special passport design featuring Trump's face, State Department announces - report

According to the Financial Times, the passport's design will feature the President's portrait overlaying the Declaration of Independence on its inner cover.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press during an event outside the Oval Office of the White House on April 13, 2026 in Washington, DC.
US President Donald Trump thanks tech billionaire Michael Dell while making an announcement about "Trump accounts" in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on December 02, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Dell family pledges $6.25 billion to jump-start 'Trump Accounts' for 25 million US children

“Trump Accounts will be the first, real trust funds for every American child, allowing family members, employers, corporations, and generous donors to contribute money that will grow," Trump said.

|ByTHE MEDIA LINE STAFF
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Israeli and American flags flown near the US Capitol.

Exclusive: Benjamin Netanyahu's 4th of July message to the American people

Freedom is the most precious gift humanity will ever know. And freedom isn’t free. You have to be willing to fight for it.

|ByPRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
American and Israeli flags

The significance of first ‘Jewish July Fourth’ - opinion

The Grand Federal Procession was a milestone for America’s small Jewish community.

|ByRON RUBIN

Highland Park shooter: Gunman pleads not guilty at arraignment

Robert Crimo III, the gunman who killed 7 people and injured 30 at an infamous 4th of July shooting, pled not guilty to the charges.

AUGUST 3, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Robert E. Crimo III, suspect in the mass shooting that took place at a Fourth of July parade route in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, US is seen in initial booking photograph from the Highland Park Police Department released July 6, 2022

July 4 Highland Park shooter to be arraigned

The July 4 Highland Park shooter is to be arraigned on Wednesday on 117 counts connected to the attack. That is including the 21 charges of first-degree murder.

AUGUST 3, 2022ByREUTERS
Community members gather at a memorial site near the parade route the day after a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, US July 5, 2022

Trump: I should be on Mt. Rushmore for doing 'more than' other presidents

South Dakota's governor was convinced he was joking. "I started laughing," she said, but "he wasn't laughing... he was totally serious."

AUGUST 10, 2020ByTOBIAS SIEGAL
US NAVY F/A-18E Super Hornets conduct a fly-by of South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore in 2006

While pandemic rages, July 4 hot dog record broken again in New York

Joey Chestnut ate 75 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes, topping his previous record.

JULY 6, 2020ByREUTERS
Joey Chestnut poses after winning the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest with a world record 75 hot dogs consumed in Brooklyn, in New York City, U.S., July 4, 2020

Grapevine June 18, 2020: Independence and annexation... or not

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JUNE 27, 2020ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Udi and Anat Angel