Tisha B'Av

One people cannot survive under two laws: What pushed Israel's deputy FM to resign - opinion

What I taught my daughter on Tisha B’Av – and why I resigned from the government.

|BySHARREN HASKEL
Sharren Haskel speaks to the media as she announces her resignation as deputy foreign minister, at the Knesset, on July 14, 2026.
The western wall male side on Tisha B'av, 2018

Tisha B'Av calls on Israel to restore its culture of responsibility - opinion

A healthy society should possess a moral fragrance. Its values should be detectable not only in its speeches and symbols, but in its streets, offices, schools, hospitals, and homes. 

|ByJONATHAN LIEBERMAN
Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers his 100 Days Address, a speech dedicated to outline the progress made on his core campaign promises since taking office, in Queens, New York City, US, April 12, 2026.

Criticism cannot become erasure: A letter to Mamdani on his condemnation of Netanyahu - opinion

On Tisha B’Av, I am asking you not to erase Israeli humanity or Jewish pain.

|ByDOV BLEICH
Jews pray at the Western Wall on Tisha B'Av, July 22, 2026.

Today in photos: Thousands gather at Western Wall for Tisha B'Av lamentations

Tisha B'Av is first and foremost a fast day, during which Jews abstain from all food and water for approximately 25 hours, from sunset until nightfall the next day.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Chief Rabbi: COVID-19 patients can't fast on Tisha B'Av, shorten prayer

"To our sorrow, the plague is intensifying and we need heavenly mercy," wrote Lau.

JULY 27, 2020ByTZVI JOFFRE
A Jewish worshipper prays next to the Western Wall on Tisha B'Av, a day of fasting and lament, in Jerusalem's Old City

Grapevine July 26, 2020: Zooming in on Tisha Be’av

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JULY 25, 2020ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
FROM LEFT: Meron Reuben, Foreign Ministry chief of protocol; Yoram Rabad, honorary consul for Liberia and Anat Schleien, who heads the ministry’s Africa desk.

Please don’t destroy Israel, our home

The State of Israel is the national home of the Jewish people, the only place on Earth that gathers Jews from all the lands of their dispersal; the only place where Jews must feel safe.

JULY 25, 2020BySHLOMO SOBOL
A BOY wrapped with Israel’s national flag is seen during a parade marking Jerusalem Day last month outside the Old City Walls. Israel, the author argues, needs to assert more sovereignty

Tisha Be’av in corona times

Reflections and online inspiration

JULY 23, 2020ByBENJY SINGER
Tisha Be'Av in Safed

Why the Tzemach Tzedek told his son to beware of dairy

THE TZEMACH TZEDEK acknowledged a letter that his son had sent him and warned his son "not to be stringent – Heaven forfend – at this time, by eating dairy products in the Nine Days."

JULY 23, 2020ByLEVI COOPER
Cows at a dairy farm

Why we can smile on Tisha Be’av

How can a Jew, living in our vastly altered modern world, experience Tisha Be’av mourning during a period in which history has once again smiled upon us?

JULY 23, 2020ByMOSHE TARAGIN
Marching around the gates to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on Tisha Be'av eve, 2019

Tisha Be’av in the modern age

THE ANGUISH of Tisha Be’av has meaning for us year in and year out because we have never stopped mourning.

JULY 23, 2020ByDAVID GEFFEN
'I was fortunate that at my Boy Scout camp in Georgia, we had a minyan of my fellow Jewish scouts.'

Rabbis pray at Western Wall to end coronavirus - WATCH

Due to the Health Ministry regulations, the public are requested not to attend in person but to take part via the internet.

JULY 21, 2020ByDONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS
Jewish men pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City. April 19, 2020.

Christians to repent online for antisemitism on Tisha Be'av

While Jews will be reading Lamentations in and out of synagogues, Christians will participate in a nine-hour online vigil of prayers.

JULY 21, 2020ByGIL HOFFMAN
The ruins of the Second Temple that sit next to a part of the Western Wall

Chief Sephardi rabbi allows music during 3 weeks for those in quarantine

Jews around the world follow mourning practices in the three weeks before Tisha Be’av, the day on which the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed.

JULY 20, 2020ByTZVI JOFFRE
SEPHARDI CHIEF Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef