Shira Silkoff

Shira Silkoff is a former breaking news desk manager for the Jerusalem Post, and between May 2023 - and September 2023, they held the position of interim managing editor of Jpost.com.

Starting in August 2021, they held the role of breaking news desk manager, after initially joining the Post in April 2021 as a breaking news desk editor.

From July 2022 until September 2023, Shira held the Women's Affairs Reporter position, covering topics such as gender inequality, reproductive rights and gender-based violence in Israel and around the world.

From January 2022 until June 2022, Shira filled the position of Health Correspondent as a temporary replacement, covering COVID-19 and other local and international medical news.




 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on July 2, 2023

Prime Minister Netanyahu released from hospital

 Women hold signs as they protest for women equality, in Tel Aviv on August 23, 2022.

Knesset bill to dismantle authority responsible for gender equality passes preliminary reading

 View of road 10, on the border with Egypt, April 7, 2023.

IDF to probe terror killing of three Israeli soldiers by Egyptian policeman


The Jerusalem pride march is a holy event - comment

Marching for LGBT rights in Jerusalem is not safe. It is a dangerous decision, one that attendees don’t take lightly.

 People take part in an annual LGBTQ Pride parade in Jerusalem, June 1, 2023

Veg It Out: Israeli vegan food made easier – but what about taste? - review

If you’re a busy vegan on the go who is looking for healthy, quick meals full of fresh vegetables and natural flavors, Veg It Out may be the perfect solution for you. 

 Veg It Out: Vegan food made easier

Jewish woman killed by IDF had struggled with mental health since childhood

Sapir Livnat Green disguised herself as a terrorist in order to end her own life one year after losing her best friend, Tikva Saban to suicide.

 Sapir Livnat Green, who was killed by IDF soldiers on May 9, 2023 after disguising herself as a terrorist in order to end her own life.

Is Israel failing to protect its most vulnerable citizens?

SOCIAL AFFAIRS: 68 violent murders have been carried out in Israeli-Arab communities, four of them against women.

 A CEREMONY in memory of women murdered by men, as part of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women events in Tel Aviv, last year.

Woman and two infant sons murdered in Taiba, husband arrested

The victim's husband, Mohammed Massaroa, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife and children.

 Israel Police on the scene of the murder of a woman and her two infant children in Taiba.

150,000 protest Israeli judicial reform, Spanish PM voices support

Judicial reform protest organizers declare Thursday to be "National Equality Day" • Foreign Minister Eli Cohen criticizes video from Spanish Prime Minister

 People take part in a demonstration against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his nationalist coalition government's judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, Israel April 29, 2023.

International sex trafficking operation broken open by Israel Police

15 suspects have been the target of an undercover investigation carried out by Israel Police forces over the last few months

 Israel Police.

Kyiv to name street for Ukrainian Nazi collaborator after public vote

A street in Kyiv will soon bear the name of Volodymyr Kubiyovych, one of the founders of the Waffen-SS Galizien, the Ukraine branch of the Nazi military force.

Volodymyr Kubijovyč and Hans Frank with the Ukrainian harvest festival delegation. Wawel, German Occupied Poland, 1943.

16 years on: Roman Zadorov acquitted of Tair Rada's murder

Following his acquittal, Zadorov fought back tears, saying simply that "the truth won. I want to go home, to my children."

 Roman Zadorov seen after his sentence in his re-trial on the murder of Tair Rada, outside the District Court in Nazareth, on March 30, 2023.

Ben-Gvir to Biden: Israel is no longer another star on the US flag

Israeli Culture and Sport Minister Miki Zohar accused the US of "falling for fake news" around the judicial reform legislation.

 MK Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit political party visits in Kibbutz Ayelet HaShahar, northern Israel, October 6, 2022.