Jerusalem Report

Inside Israel's media war: Who shapes the narrative now?

As Israel moves to overhaul its media system, journalists, lawmakers, and critics clash over power, press freedom, and the future of Israeli democracy

Israel's media in the eye of the storm.
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi attends the Special Committee for the Communications Law at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament on December 9, 2025

Media revolution or power grab? Inside Shlomo Karhi’s Israeli media overhaul - interview

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Communications Minister Shlomo Kahri in the Knesset. Kahri advocates opening up the media market in Israel.

The case for ending Israel's media monopoly protections - opinion

Ilana Dayan addresses the Emergency Conference of Israeli Journalists in Tel Aviv on December 9, 2025.

Those who seek truth do not silence the press - opinion


Israel's recognition of Somaliland sends warning to Turkey, Iran, Syria - opinion

Israel’s recognition of Somaliland has sent shockwaves through the region and chills down the spines of authoritarian leaders

Somaliland, a de facto state that has governed itself for more than three decades, holding elections, maintaining security, and building institutions, even as it remains largely unrecognized by the international community.

Gaza reveals future of urban combat western armies aren't prepared for - opinion

The war in Gaza was modern urban war, not genocide, writes Andrew Fox in his latest research paper for the Henry Jackson Society

Israeli army soldier holding a mounted machine gun in front of destroyed buildings in the vicinity of the Jordanian Field Hospital in Gaza City.

When governments gag the press, democracies collapse - opinion

Why current government reforms threaten one of Israel’s last democratic safeguards – the media

Israeli journalists gathered last month for an emergency meeting to discuss the government’s proposed reforms to the media landscape.

Stone, arches and memory: Jerusalem's enduring Mediterranean architecture survives

Inside Jerusalem’s Arab houses, where architecture outlives empires and residents

Bisharat House, with its triple-arched veranda, is a feature of Jerusalem’s Mediterranean villa style.

Happy(ish) New Year: Holocaust remembrance as warning in an age of resurgent antisemitism

A new year invites hope – but Holocaust Remembrance Day nears amid violent antisemitism. This issue looks back to warn: preserve names, memory, and truth.

As International Holocaust Remembrance Day approaches we ask whether the lessons of the past have taught us anything?

Yad Vashem races to preserve Holocaust artifacts as survivors dwindle

As the number of first-hand witnesses dwindles, artifacts from the Holocaust are being carefully collected and preserved to continue telling the story

The documents discovered by Peled’s daughter in Krakow before undergoing conservation work.

When centenarian survivors die, their lucid wartime memories go with them

Centenarian Holocaust survivors carry memories forged in adolescence; their passing marks the fading of a rare, irreplaceable perspectiv

Tova Ringer (center), a Holocaust survivor who passed away in September 2025 aged 102, won Israel’s annual Miss Holocaust Survivor beauty pageant in 2018 at age 93.

'If not us, then who?': Indian CEO pushes Holocaust awareness at home - interview

Meet the Indian business leader pushing for Holocaust awareness in his country of nearly 1.5 billion people.

Samir Khosla and his wife participate in the March of the Living last April.

Teaching the Holocaust in the Arab world requires confronting decades of miseducation - analysis

Denial, media incitement, and politicized education continue to block historical truth – and any path to coexistence

Children study in a school in Egypt. Children in the Arab world do not learn why millions of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust or why the experience continues to shape modern Israeli fears.

The last witnesses: Holocaust survivors confront rising antisemitism

They survived the Holocaust and spent decades warning the world. Now, from Jerusalem and Sydney, two women watch antisemitism return 

As survivors of the Holocaust begin to dwindle, two survivors confront rising antisemitism.