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Editor's Notes: Who is Yakir Gabay, the billionaire on Trump's Gaza Board of Peace?

Within days of October 7th, he was drafting what would become the reconstruction plan now attached to US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” framework for Gaza.

|ByZVIKA KLEIN
US President Donald Trump and Yakir Gabay.
What comes next for Israel and Gaza in the New Year?

After two years of war, Israelis and Palestinians ask: What comes next?

After Trump’s Gaza ceasefire, a new governance plan takes shape. From Israel’s mourning to Gaza’s rebuilding and the PA leadership race, The Jerusalem Report explores what comes next.

|ByRUTH MARKS EGLASH
IDF CHIEF OF STAFF Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir prays at the Western Wall during the ceremony officially swearing him in as the military’s highest-ranking officer.

Editor's Notes: Zamir faces painful reckoning as the IDF confronts failures, fragile leadership

A rare look inside the emotional and moral struggle facing IDF leaders after October 7 and the cost of true accountability.

|ByZVIKA KLEIN
Taking control of the narrative is, for many survivors a form of therapy and a form of revenge. Hamas tried to erase them. Standing on a stage and saying “this is what they did to me and this is why we must bring the others home” is the opposite of erasure. 

The rise of the hostage influencer and the price of public trauma - comment

Editor's Notes: The story of Israel’s new celebrities is, in the end, the story of a society that refuses to look away from its trauma, yet also cannot bear to stare at it directly for too long.

|ByZVIKA KLEIN

Vigilance in the North

The air force attacked Hezbollah targets on the Lebanon-Syria border on Monday night, according to Lebanese and other Arab media sources. The IDF has declined to comment.

FEBRUARY 25, 2014ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Soldiers in Hebron 370

Zilber’s music

Zilber, who has over the past four decades composed and performed some of Israeli music’s greatest hits, has become known for his extreme right-wing political opinions.

FEBRUARY 4, 2014ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Israeli singer Ariel Zilber