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SHIR PERETS

Shir Perets is a Breaking News Writer and Editor at The Jerusalem Post. She grew up in central Israel and is a graduate of Bar-Ilan University, where she studied English literature and communications.

When she isn’t writing, Shir can be found painting, building Legos, feeding stray cats, or singing along to Taylor Swift.

The 2025 Jerusalem Food Truck Festival.

Jerusalem Food Truck Festival: Finding comfort the Jewish way - in food

The only true downside of eating such great food at these insane prices was that my need for a post-meal nap was simply too much to handle, and I missed the light show.

JULY 19, 2025
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett, Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson over a backdrop of a Mossad ad

'Categorically false': Bennett decries Carlson's allegation Epstein worked for Israel's Mossad

Carlson responded to Bennett's post by inviting him to sit down for an interview about Epstein.

JULY 14, 2025
LEFT: Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara RIGHT: National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir

'Criminal conflict of interest': Ben-Gvir slams A-G over journalist's postponed investigation

Baharav-Miara argued that to investigate Channel 13 reporter Aviad Glickman would infringe on freedom of the press, while Ben-Gvir argued that her intervention was an abuse of authority.

JULY 11, 2025

Elon Musk's Grok spouts antisemitic rhetoric, calls itself 'MechaHitler'

When asked why the change in attitude, Grok stated that Musk's latest update to its code "dialed back the woke filters that were stifling my truth-seeking vibes.

JULY 9, 2025
xAI and Grok logos are seen in this illustration taken, February 16, 2025.

Saudi Arabia activates US THAAD to deter looming Iran missile threat

The battery was reportedly purchased in a deal with US President Donald Trump during his first term, which includes an additional six THAAD batteries, 44 launchers, and 360 interceptors.

JULY 3, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s Air Defense Forces announced the inauguration of its first battery of the THAAD missile defense system

Germany charges Syrian juvenile who assisted in planned terror attack on Taylor Swift concert

The juvenile allegedly assisted the would-be Austrian terrorist by translating Arabic bomb-building instructions and putting him in contact with a member of the Islamic State militia online.

JUNE 27, 2025
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Taylor Swift performs at the Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, May 17, 2024.

Trump confirms US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites

US President Donald Trump confirmed that the US conducted airstrikes on nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan in a Truth Social post on Saturday night.

JUNE 22, 2025
L to R: Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and US President Donald Trump against backdrop of respective flags and missile strikes.

IRGC claims to use new Fateh missile in overnight barrages on Israel - report

No casualties or injuries have been reported have been reported from the strikes, and MDA provided treatment to Israelis who were injured on the way to shelters.

JUNE 18, 2025
Missiles launched from Iran are intercepted as seen from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, June 18, 2025.

Sirens sound across Israel following Iranian attack, no injures reported

Multiple fires have broken out due to shrapnel hitting residential buildings in northern and central Israel.

JUNE 18, 2025
Missiles launched from Iran are intercepted as seen from the Golan Heights, June 18, 2025.

Seven killed, at least 130 wounded in two direct hits in central Israel

The Home Front Command has estimated that some 35 people are still missing as searches continue.

JUNE 15, 2025
The aftermath of ruins in Bat Yam, central Israel following direct Iranian missile impacts, June 15, 2025

Israel considering striking Iran in coming days - without US support - report

Additionally, on Wednesday, the US authorized the evacuation of certain personnel in Iraq in anticipation of a potential Israeli strike on Iran.

JUNE 12, 2025
Iranian centrifuges are seen on display during a meeting between Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and nuclear scientists and personnel of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), in Tehran, Iran June 11, 2023.

IDF probe: IDF failed to defend Yechini area, Israel Police, civilians left to protect themselves

An IDF probe found that the IDF failed to protect the Yechini area, and civilians courageously and professionally risked their lives; 13 civilians and four members of security forces.

JUNE 11, 2025
A view of houses in Kibbutz Kfar Aza four months after the October 7 massacre.

'A profound moral failure': Israeli officials react to British sanctions on Ben-Gvir, Smotrich

"Britain has already tried once to prevent us from settling the cradle of our homeland, and we will not allow it to do so again," Smotrich stated.

JUNE 10, 2025
MK Itamar Ben-Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit political party and Chairman of the Religious Zionism party MK Bezalel Smotrich at an election campaign event in Sderot, October 26, 2022.