MATHILDA HELLER

Mathilda is the Diaspora correspondent at The Jerusalem Post. She made aliyah five weeks before the war from rural England.

After attending university, where she studied English and Spanish literature, she moved to South Korea and taught at a British School in Jeju.

She spent five months working at the Prime Minister's Office international desk helping the hasbara effort in foreign languages before coming to the Post.

In her free time she does martial arts, tutors, and writes. She lives in Tel Aviv, and speaks several languages.


An image in Portugese calling to boycott the Anta Gathering music festival.

Israeli-run music festival in Portugal forced to cancel following intense BDS campaign

A man is silhouetted near logos of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and Wikipedia, March 11, 2015.

Wikimedia under investigation by US Congress regarding foreign involvement in articles about Israel

Leila Abu-Orf of Palestinian Youth Movement NOLA listens after a judge ruled that the Columbia University student and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, outside of the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center, where he is detained, in Jena, Louisiana, US, April 11, 2025.

Sen. Tom Cotton calls for IRS probe into Palestine Youth Movement over terror ties, tax violations


Security scare at Jewish event highlights rising antisemitism in Norway

REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: A man wearing a large backpack pretended to be a West Bank settler to enter an event honoring Theodor Herzl. Questioning revealed he was a Palestinian from Jenin.

A party honoring Theodor Herzl in Oslo, Norway, August 2025.

How to prevent civil war in Iran should the Islamic regime collapse

A new report by the Henry Jackson Society explores what a post-regime Iran could look like and how a viable state can be established.

A person holds an umbrella with a sign that reads: "Free Iran" as supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran gather to protest against the Iranian regime, in Berlin, Germany, June 21, 2025.

Libya's quiet shift: Normalization with Israel might still be on the table

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: Libya’s PM rejected normalization with Israel, but secret talks between the two countries and strategic interests keep the issue alive despite strong public opposition.

Libya's recent history with its Jewish inhabitants has not been positive, and relations with Israel almost nonexistent. Here, Libyans hold signs during a demonstration against the presence of Jews in Libya and the reopening of the Dar Bishi Synagogue in Tripoli, in 2011.

Buchenwald Memorial allowed to refuse entry to people wearing keffiyehs, court rules

This comes after a visitor filed an expedited court application requesting she be allowed to wear a keffiyeh during her visit to the Buchenwald Memorial camp.

A visitor stands in front of a watchtower behind a fence on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar

French resort manager arrested for antisemitism after denying entry to 150 Israeli kids

The children, aged 8 to 16, had fully booked the place and had to take three buses to another location, after the site manager was arrested.

 French police officers stand guard in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France on November 14, 2015. Photo by Laurence Geai/Flash90

UK wheelchair basketball team snubs Israelis during Hatikva - interview

The Israeli team will likely be facing the same British team again at the upcoming European Championships (in October).

Israeli wheelchair basketball player Ilay Yarhi plays against the UK wheelchair basketball team.

Australia's upcoming Marches for Palestine are 'high risk,' says Israel's antisemitism center

In the wake of disruptive, bridge-blocking protests earlier this month, pro-Palestine groups will once again return to Australian streets.

 Members of the Palestine Action Group gather ahead of a rally, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Sydney, Australia May 3, 2024.

Uncovering the HEAL Palestine charity’s overlap with Hamas-linked networks, extremist orgs

HEAL Palestine links to Hamas were first unveiled by a far-right conspiracy theorist - a deeper investigation by The Jerusalem Post uncovered the truth.

People who arrived in Chicago from Gaza in July through an organization known as Heal Palestine, pray on the day of a protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza, in Chicago, Illinois, US, August 21, 2024

'Sanction Israel, launch war crimes investigation' demand Northern Irish, Scottish, Welsh MPs

The letter added that, given the UK is party to the Genocide Convention, it has an "obligation to prevent acts that may amount to genocide."

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a statement inside No. 10 Downing Street on the day the cabinet was recalled to discuss the situation in Gaza, in London, Britain, July 29, 2025.

Amichai Chikli accuses EU ministers of 'defending terror-supporting organizations'

His words followed a joint statement by 27 foreign ministers on August 12 in which the ministers condemned what they said were "restrictive new registration requirements."

 Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem on March 27, 2025.