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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.

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?

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

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


JPost Editorial: The morning after

The day after the election is the time for healing to begin.

Donald Trump speaks at his election night rally in Manhattan

Editorial: UNESCO on the Temple Mount

Palestinians’ preoccupation with ancient history has little to do with culture or science and everything to do with politics.

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem

JPost Editorial: Beyond partisanship

Ideologically speaking, Israel shares America’s values.

Israeli and American flags.

JPost Editorial: Judaism’s importance

The Jewish people’s yearning to return to their homeland draws its inspiration from the prophets of the Bible.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett meets with pupils at the start school year

Editor's notes: The settlers’ foreign minister

As mayor of Efrat in Gush Etzion, Revivi is used to getting phone calls from his residents. This one though came from a Palestinian.

ODED REVIVI speaks to a group on a recent tour of Efrat.

JPost Editorial: Haredi growth

The haredi population is growing at an annual rate of around 4 percent, with the average haredi woman having 6.9 children.

Haredim

JPost Editorial: A handshake’s importance

One of the goals of the Olympic Games is to bring together the nations of the world to compete in an atmosphere of good sportsmanship and mutual respect.

THE SAUDI ARABIAN delegation arrives at the Olympic opening ceremony in Brazil.

JPost Editorial: Mourning Gaza

One inevitable result of the Gaza withdrawal is that it has made a sizable portion of Israelis reluctant to consider a similar withdrawal from PA territories.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon addresses the nation on the disengagement from Gaza, August 15, 2005

JPost Editorial: Palestinian elections

It is unlikely that elections held in either Gaza or the West Bank will be particularly free or fair...

Palestinian president Abbas stands between PM Haniyeh and senior Fatah leader Dahlan in Gaza

Editorial: Stop the accidents

The high number of Arab children killed in accidents reveals a glaring inequality that must be addressed.

The scene of a traffic accident on Road 31 near Arad