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The art of the deal.

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., made aliyah to Israel in 1971 and began drawing “Dry Bones” in January 1973. The internationally syndicated, award-winning cartoons ran in The Jerusalem Post for 50 years. They were reprinted in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and other mainstream media publications. The “Dry Bones” story has been covered by CBS, CNN and Forbes, among other outlets. He was a member of America’s National Cartoonists Society and the Israeli Cartoonists Society. Kirschen died at 87 on April 14, 2025.

The art of the deal.

Jerusalem reportedly ran a network of covert operations across the Middle East to facilitate a concerted military effort during the war against Tehran.
Ireland’s government bars Israel’s national security minister from entry in the wake of video in which he is seen taunting Gaza protest flotilla activists.
Tehran has not yet succumbed to U.S. demands because Iranians are “strong and proud,” President Trump says in an interview.
Yehuda Kaploun, special envoy at the department, declined to comment on the news and said broadly that governments must protect their Jews.
Opposition to a Palestinian state surged to 79% in the aftermath of the Hamas attack.
Capt. Eitan Shmuel Lemberg was killed when an anti-tank missile struck his tank north of the Litani River, a day after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire proposal was announced.