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''The Jerusalem Post'' is a
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newspaper based in
Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
, founded in 1932 during the
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by
Gershon Agron Gershon Harry Agron ( he, גרשון אגרון, Gershon ʾAgron, ; russian: Гершон Агрон; , yi, גרשון אגראנסקי; 1 November 1959) was a Russian-born American-Israeli newspaper editor, politician, and the mayor of West Jer ...
as ''The Palestine Post''. In 1950, it changed its name to ''The Jerusalem Post''. In 2004, the paper was bought by Mirkaei Tikshoret, a diversified Israeli media firm controlled by investor Eli Azur. In April 2014, Azur acquired the newspaper ''
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''. The newspaper is published in English and previously also printed a French edition. Originally a
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newspaper, it underwent a noticeable shift to the
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in the late 1980s. From 2004 editor
David Horovitz David Horovitz ( he, דוד הוֹרוֹויץ; born 12 August 1962) is a British-born Israeli journalist, author and speaker. He is the founding editor of ''The Times of Israel'', a current affairs website based in Jerusalem that launched in F ...
moved the paper to the center, and his successor in 2011, Steve Linde, pledged to provide balanced coverage of the news along with views from across the political spectrum. In April 2016, Linde stepped down as editor-in-chief and was replaced by Yaakov Katz, a former military reporter for the paper who previously served as an adviser to former Prime Minister
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. The paper professes to be in the Israeli
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, yet is considered to be on the political right; its editorial line is critical of political corruption, and supportive of the separation of religion and state in Israel. It is also a strong proponent of greater investment by the State of Israel in World Jewry and educational programs for the
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.


History


1925–1950

The first attempt to establish an English-language newspaper in Jerusalem was '' The Jerusalem News'', established in 1919 under the auspices of the
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movement, but this had no relationship to ''The Jerusalem Post''. The direct journalistic ancestry of ''The Jerusalem Post'' can be traced to ''The Palestine Bulletin'', which was founded in January 1925 by Jacob Landau of the
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. It was owned by the Palestine Telegraphic Agency, which was in practice part of the JTA even though it was legally separate. On 1 November 1931, editorship of the ''Bulletin'' was taken over by
Gershon Agron Gershon Harry Agron ( he, גרשון אגרון, Gershon ʾAgron, ; russian: Гершон Агрон; , yi, גרשון אגראנסקי; 1 November 1959) was a Russian-born American-Israeli newspaper editor, politician, and the mayor of West Jer ...
sky (later Agron), a Jewish journalist who had immigrated to Palestine from the United States. In March 1932, a dispute arose between Landau and Agronsky, which Agronsky resolved to settle by establishing an independent newspaper. However, Landau and Agronsky instead came to an agreement to transform the ''Bulletin'' into a new, jointly owned newspaper. Accordingly, the ''Palestine Bulletin'' published its last issue on 30 November 1932 and ''The Palestine Post Incorporating The Palestine Bulletin'' appeared the following day, 1 December 1932. On 25 April 1933, the masthead was reduced to just ''The Palestine Post'', although the newspaper continued to state its founding year as 1925 for at least a year afterwards. During its time as ''The Palestine Post'', the publication supported the struggle for a
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in Palestine and openly opposed British policy restricting Jewish immigration during the Mandate period. According to one commentator, "
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institutions considered the newspaper one of the most effective means of exerting influence on the British authorities."


1948 bombing

On the evening of 1 February 1948, a stolen British police car loaded with half a ton of TNT pulled up in front of the Jerusalem office of the ''Palestine Post''; the driver of a second car arrived a few minutes later, lit the fuse and drove off. The building also contained other newspaper offices, the British press censor, the Jewish settlement police, and a
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post with a cache of weapons. Arab leader
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni ( ar, عبد القادر الحسيني), also spelled Abd al-Qader al-Husseini (1907 – 8 April 1948) was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and fighter who in late 1933 founded the secret militant group known as the Orga ...
claimed responsibility for the bombing, but historian Uri Milstein reported that the bomb had been prepared by the
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-trained Fawzi el-Kutub, known as "the engineer", with the involvement of two British army
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, Cpl. Peter Mersden and Capt. Eddie Brown. Three persons died in the bombing, a newspaper typesetter and two people who lived in a nearby block of flats. Dozens of others were injured and the printing press was destroyed. The morning paper came out in a reduced format of two pages, printed at a small print shop nearby.


1950–present

In 1950, two years after the
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was declared, the paper was renamed ''The Jerusalem Post.'' The
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newspaper is published from Sunday to Friday, with no edition appearing on Saturday (the
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) and Jewish religious holidays. Regular opinion columnists write on subjects such as religion, foreign affairs and economics. the owner of the paper is Eli Azur, editor-in-chief is Yaakov Katz and the managing editor is David Brinn. In January 2008, the paper announced a new partnership with ''The Wall Street Journal'', including joint marketing and exclusive publication in Israel of ''
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''. ''The Jerusalem Post'' also publishes a monthly magazine, ''IVRIT,'' edited by Dr. Sarit Yalov. Its target audience is people learning the
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and it is described as "an easy-Hebrew" publication, meant for improving basic Hebrew reading skills. It uses the vowel notation system to make comprehension of the
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simpler. ''
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'', now edited by Steve Linde, is a
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print and
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glossy
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. In 2020,
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reported that ''The'' ''Jerusalem Post,'' along with
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,
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and
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, had published op-eds written by non-existent people. In 2020, ''
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'' identified a network of false personas used to sneak opinion pieces aligned with
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policy to media outlets such as ''The Jerusalem Post''. Twitter suspended some of the accounts of these fake persons on its own platform. In January 2022, ''The Jerusalem Post's'' website was hacked by pro-Iranian actors. The ''JPost.com'' website homepage was replaced with an image depicting a bullet shot from a red ring on a finger (likely in reference to the ring worn by the Iranian General
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) and the caption "we are close to you where you do not think about it". The hack occurred on the second anniversary of the
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and is largely seen as a threat towards Israel.


Ownership changes

Until 1989, the paper supported the Labor Party. In 1989, the paper was purchased by Hollinger Inc., owned by
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. A number of journalists resigned from the Post after Black's takeover and founded ''
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'', a weekly magazine eventually sold to the ''Post''. Under editor-in-chief David Makovsky, from 1999 to 2000, the paper took a centrist position on defense, but began to reject socialism. In 2002, Hollinger hired the politically conservative
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of ''
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'' as editor-in-chief. David Horovitz took over as editor-in-chief on 1 October 2004.Anat Balint
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, Haaretz, 5 Sep. 2004
On 16 November 2004, Hollinger sold the paper to Mirkaei Tikshoret Limited, a
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-based publisher of Israeli newspapers.
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, Canada's biggest media concern, had announced an agreement to take a 50 percent stake in ''The Jerusalem Post'' after Mirkaei bought the property, but the deal soured. The two sides went to arbitration, and CanWest lost. In 2011, Horovitz was succeeded by the paper's managing editor, Steve Linde, who professed to maintain political moderation and balance. Yaakov Katz, the paper's former military analyst and a fellow at the
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, succeeded Linde in April 2016.


Websites


JPost.com

''JPost.com'' was launched in December 1996. Its current version also contains an ePaper version of the
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, a range of magazines and other web versions of the Group's products. The site is an entity separate from the daily newspaper. While sharing reporters, it is managed by different teams. Its staff is based in Tel Aviv, while the newspaper offices are located in Jerusalem. The site contains archives that go back to 1989, and the default search on the site sends users to archive listings, powered by
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, where articles can be purchased. Free blurbs of the article are available as well, and full articles are available when linked to directly from navigation within JPost.com or from a search engine. JPost.com includes the "Premium Zone", a pay-wall protected area, containing additional Jerusalem Post articles and special features. The site, which was given a graphic facelift in September 2014, recently relaunched its mobile and tablet applications, as well as its special edition for mobile viewing.


Editors

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Gershon Agron Gershon Harry Agron ( he, גרשון אגרון, Gershon ʾAgron, ; russian: Гершон Агрон; , yi, גרשון אגראנסקי; 1 November 1959) was a Russian-born American-Israeli newspaper editor, politician, and the mayor of West Jer ...
(1932–1955) * Ted Lurie (1955–1974) * Lea Ben Dor (1974–1975) *
Ari Rath Ari Rath (‎; 6 January 1925 – 13 January 2017) was an Austrian-Israeli journalist and writer. Life Rath was born in Vienna and grew up there. After the ''Anschluss'' he came through a ''Kindertransport'' as a thirteen-year-old boy to M ...
and Erwin Frenkel (1975–1989) * N. David Gross (1990–1992) *
David Bar-Illan David Bar-Illan (February 7, 1930 – November 5, 2003) was an Israeli pianist, author and newspaper editor. Biography Bar-Illan was born in Haifa during the Mandate era, and studied music at the Dona Weizman Conservatory. At age 17, he won a sch ...
(1992–1996) * Jeff Barak (1996–1999) * David Makovsky (1999–2000) * Carl Schrag (2000) * Jeff Barak (2000–2002) *
Bret Stephens Bret Louis Stephens (born November 21, 1973) is an American conservative journalist, editor, and columnist. He began working as an opinion columnist for ''The New York Times'' in April 2017 and as a senior contributor to NBC News in June 2017. ...
(2002–2004) *
David Horovitz David Horovitz ( he, דוד הוֹרוֹויץ; born 12 August 1962) is a British-born Israeli journalist, author and speaker. He is the founding editor of ''The Times of Israel'', a current affairs website based in Jerusalem that launched in F ...
(2004–2011) * Steve Linde (2011–2016) * Yaakov Katz (since 2016)


Agron family

Gershon Agron Gershon Harry Agron ( he, גרשון אגרון, Gershon ʾAgron, ; russian: Гершон Агрон; , yi, גרשון אגראנסקי; 1 November 1959) was a Russian-born American-Israeli newspaper editor, politician, and the mayor of West Jer ...
founded the newspaper and served as its editor until he went into public service. One of his early reporters was his nephew
Martin Agronsky Martin Zama Agronsky ( ; January 12, 1915 – July 25, 1999), also known as Martin Agronski, was an American journalist, political analyst, and television host. He began his career in 1936 working under his uncle, Gershon Agron, at the ''Palest ...
, who would later become a famous American political journalist. Agronsky left the paper after only a year; he felt he had been hired out of
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and didn't like this, wanting to earn his jobs. Agron's son
Dani Agron Gershon Harry Agron ( he, גרשון אגרון, Gershon ʾAgron, ; russian: Гершон Агрон; , yi, גרשון אגראנסקי; 1 November 1959) was a Russian-born American-Israeli newspaper editor, politician, and the mayor of West Jer ...
also worked for the newspaper, serving as its business manager in the 1970s, while his wife Ethel wrote for ''
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''. Martin Agronsky's son
Jonathan Agronsky Martin Zama Agronsky ( ; January 12, 1915 – July 25, 1999), also known as Martin Agronski, was an American journalist, political analyst, and television host. He began his career in 1936 working under his uncle, Gershon Agron, at the ''The Jer ...
also became a journalist in the United States.


See also

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List of newspapers in Israel This list of newspapers in Israel is a list of newspapers printed and distributed in the State of Israel. Most are published in Hebrew, but there are also newspapers catering to Arabic speakers, and newspapers catering to immigrants speaking a v ...


References


External links

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''Palestine Bulletin''
complete searchable contents 1925–1932
''Palestine Post''
complete searchable contents 1932–1950 {{DEFAULTSORT:Jerusalem Post, The 1932 establishments in Mandatory Palestine Culture of Jerusalem Daily newspapers published in Israel English-language newspapers published in Asia French-language newspapers published in Asia Israeli brands Jewish businesses established in Mandatory Palestine Mass media companies of Israel Mass media in Jerusalem Newspapers published in Mandatory Palestine Non-Hebrew-language newspapers published in Israel Publications established in 1932