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The Jerusalem Post

{{Short description|English-language Israeli newspaper}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}

{{Infobox newspaper

| name = The Jerusalem Post

| logo =Jerusalem Post Logo.svg

| image = File:The Jerusalem Post 2012.jpg

| caption = Front page of The Jerusalem Post; September 1, 2020

| type = Daily newspaper

| format = Broadsheet

| foundation = {{start date and age|df=yes|1932|12|01}}
(as The Palestine Post)

| political = {{ubl|Center-right{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Jerusalem-Post|title=The Jerusalem Post|date=15 November 2023|publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=19 June 2022|archive-date=30 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190630043112/https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Jerusalem-Post|url-status=live}}|Conservative"On the issue of defense, the paper moved editorially in the post-1990 years between a centrist position under David Makovsky (1999–2000) and David Horowitz (2004– ) as editors, and a right-wing position under David *Bar-Illan (1990–96) and Brett [sic] Stephens (2002–4). A neo-liberal capitalist outlook on economic and financial affairs replaced the socialist outlook of earlier years."{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX2587510092&v=2.1&u=imcpl1111&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w&asid=f9eeb37174108610386ec27e1c1c38f9 |title=Jerusalem Post |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Judaica |date=2007 |access-date=22 February 2015 |archive-date=8 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108201220/http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX2587510092&v=2.1&u=imcpl1111&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w&asid=f9eeb37174108610386ec27e1c1c38f9 |url-status=live }}{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/302951/The-Jerusalem-Post |title=The Jerusalem Post (Israeli newspaper) |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=2013-11-21 |archive-date=10 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150510021732/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/302951/The-Jerusalem-Post |url-status=live }}}}

| owners = The Jerusalem Post Group

| language = English

| ISSN = 0792-822X

| headquarters = Jerusalem

| circulation = 90,000
(Weekends: 120,000) (International: 50,000){{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

| editor = Zvika Klein

| oclc = 15700704

| website = {{official URL}}

| sister newspapers = Jerusalem Post Lite
Maariv
Walla!

| publishing_country = Israel

}}

The Jerusalem Post is an English language Israeli broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, Israel, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron 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 (who in 2014 also acquired the newspaper Maariv).[http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/290475 'Maariv' Newspaper to Be Sold to Businessman Eli Azur] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062340/http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/290475 |date=4 March 2016 }} News flash at israelnationalnews.com The Jerusalem Post is published in English. Previously, it also had a French edition.

The paper professes to be in the Israeli political center,{{cite web |title=Jerusalem – a City with Many Names |url=https://fozmuseum.com/blog/jerusalem-many-names/ |website=Friend of Zion Museum |access-date=15 March 2022 |date=23 November 2021 |archive-date=16 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416122050/https://fozmuseum.com/blog/jerusalem-many-names/ |url-status=live }} yet is considered to be on the political center-right;{{cite web |title=The Jerusalem Post |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Jerusalem-Post |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=Britannica.com |archive-date=30 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190630043112/https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Jerusalem-Post |url-status=live }} its editorial line is critical of political corruption,{{cite web |last1=Katz |first1=Yaakov |title=Israel needs a government, not a circus – analysis |url=https://www.jpost.com/opinion/israel-needs-a-government-not-a-circus-analysis-636115 |website=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=15 March 2022 |date=23 July 2020 |archive-date=15 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315042406/https://www.jpost.com/opinion/israel-needs-a-government-not-a-circus-analysis-636115 |url-status=live }} and supportive of the separation of religion and state in Israel.{{cite web |title=Recant, Chief Rabbi |url=https://www.jpost.com/opinion/recant-chief-rabbi-613469 |website=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=15 March 2022 |date=7 January 2020 |archive-date=15 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315042409/https://www.jpost.com/opinion/recant-chief-rabbi-613469 |url-status=live }} It is also a strong proponent of greater investment by the State of Israel in World Jewry and educational programs for the Jewish diaspora.{{cite web |title=Can the coronavirus help repair ties between Israel's Jews and Arabs? |url=https://www.jpost.com/opinion/can-the-coronavirus-help-repair-ties-between-israels-jews-and-arabs-625530 |website=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=15 March 2022 |date=22 April 2020 |archive-date=15 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315042411/https://www.jpost.com/opinion/can-the-coronavirus-help-repair-ties-between-israels-jews-and-arabs-625530 |url-status=live }}

The broadsheet newspaper is published daily Sunday to Friday, except for Jewish religious holidays and Independence Day, with no edition appearing on Saturday (the Jewish Sabbath). Regular opinion columnists write on subjects such as religion, foreign affairs and economics.

History

The first attempt to establish an English-language newspaper in Jerusalem was The Jerusalem News, established in 1919 under the auspices of the Christian Science movement, but this had no relationship to The Jerusalem Post.{{sfnm|1a1=Ellis|1y=1984|1p=109|2a1=Taves|2y=2006|2pp=61–62, 65}}

= The Palestine Bulletin, 1925–1932=

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 Jewish Telegraphic Agency.{{cite book | author = Michael D. Birnhack | title = Colonial Copyright: Intellectual Property in Mandate Palestine | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2012 | isbn = 978-0-19-163719-3 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rLAdYH0K6CYC | access-date = 19 October 2015 | archive-date = 21 May 2024 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240521061244/https://books.google.com/books?id=rLAdYH0K6CYC | url-status = live }} 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 Agronsky (later Agron), a Jewish journalist who had immigrated to Palestine from the United States.Palestine Bulletin, 31 October 1931. In March 1932, a dispute arose between Landau and Agronsky, which Agronsky resolved to settle by establishing an independent newspaper. 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.

= The Palestine Post, 1932–1950 =

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 its founding year still appeared as 1925.{{Cite web |title=⁨The Palestine Post⁩ {{!}} Page 8 {{!}} 25 April 1933 {{!}} Newspapers {{!}} The National Library of Israel |url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1933/04/25/01/page/1 |access-date=2022-12-30 |website=www.nli.org.il |language=en |archive-date=30 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230154806/https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1933/04/25/01/page/1 |url-status=live }} It appeared on 24 August 1934{{Cite web |title=The Palestine Post⁩ {{!}} Page 2 {{!}} 24 August 1934{{!}} Newspapers {{!}} The National Library of Israel |url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/?a=is&oid=pls19340824-01&type=staticpdf&pdfaccesscode=Pd5tNmZiE8xHttBwR2SrF%2BG28W%2BduPgKRKy%2FqjBbkmyt8%3D&submitted=1&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7CtxTI--------------1&g-recaptcha-response=03AD1IbLAm-WMLHiAf2QQUaskD7F_R5U86Sh-8T0mz08hxQoSAbGT8E9xZNOFO9GqWy0BPdKBFI_GcdGEt-PF64fFStMQF4ZzXaUs2WhOwenYv7S_TONrsl-HWhDZzoixLmXn4xOPgIwLfPNw-mEf69pnCV6wEi-Acg6hfnc1GL7fCYrDHkL37rLI4jeXrg2M8XvY0EQy9alXWj1zDrGxkHB_9XURUt28o0mpKCgz0JwONxTkNxM4sE0p5tOD9SydQCriEceOWG5oVF8HMrlmPHGfulA3inBx3-sr28KA1AljkG8i2t4IKJwyOhrQD-U2HNYVIsK5zlD9lfHA_BiYtjldC5fXN2r2mjMsGHxeD606XVeim_GlfarIlvi0Z1_9GOt4-hqCTDzsBk1eIjg9XBSuEX4Hwhf2CtPjSIcW1X6KN-e1flR_Y_wGsd0PXSbQzi3s6VcqFZLiZmQOvEEUBkNhPly--D3SlsE5t5z4j4uhe_YnkMWt3maz0MLJbFzZEKUw7_OHeYZyl |access-date=30 December 2022 |archive-date=30 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230175527/https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/?a=is&oid=pls19340824-01&type=staticpdf&pdfaccesscode=Pd5tNmZiE8xHttBwR2SrF%2BG28W%2BduPgKRKy/qjBbkmyt8%3D&submitted=1&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7CtxTI--------------1&g-recaptcha-response=03AD1IbLAm-WMLHiAf2QQUaskD7F_R5U86Sh-8T0mz08hxQoSAbGT8E9xZNOFO9GqWy0BPdKBFI_GcdGEt-PF64fFStMQF4ZzXaUs2WhOwenYv7S_TONrsl-HWhDZzoixLmXn4xOPgIwLfPNw-mEf69pnCV6wEi-Acg6hfnc1GL7fCYrDHkL37rLI4jeXrg2M8XvY0EQy9alXWj1zDrGxkHB_9XURUt28o0mpKCgz0JwONxTkNxM4sE0p5tOD9SydQCriEceOWG5oVF8HMrlmPHGfulA3inBx3-sr28KA1AljkG8i2t4IKJwyOhrQD-U2HNYVIsK5zlD9lfHA_BiYtjldC5fXN2r2mjMsGHxeD606XVeim_GlfarIlvi0Z1_9GOt4-hqCTDzsBk1eIjg9XBSuEX4Hwhf2CtPjSIcW1X6KN-e1flR_Y_wGsd0PXSbQzi3s6VcqFZLiZmQOvEEUBkNhPly--D3SlsE5t5z4j4uhe_YnkMWt3maz0MLJbFzZEKUw7_OHeYZyl |url-status=live }} but not in the following issue, 26 August,{{Cite web |title=⁨The Palestine Post⁩ {{!}} Page 8 {{!}} 26 August 1934 {{!}} Newspapers {{!}} The National Library of Israel |url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1934/08/26/01/page/1 |access-date=30 December 2022 |website=www.nli.org.il |archive-date=30 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230161304/https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1934/08/26/01/page/1 |url-status=live }} or later.

File:19480516 PalestinePost Israel is born.jpg

During its time as The Palestine Post, the publication supported the struggle for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and openly opposed British policy restricting Jewish immigration during the Mandate period.{{Cite book |last=Kessler |first=Oren |title=Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict |date=2023 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-5381-4881-5 |location=Lanham, Maryland |pages=50}} According to one commentator, "Zionist institutions considered the newspaper one of the most effective means of exerting influence on the British authorities."Wilson, Cynthia: [https://books.google.com/books?id=hKj9BwrJjtAC&q=%22zionist%3Dinitiative%22&pg=PA34 Attributed to Penslar D.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160515150707/https://books.google.com/books?id=hKj9BwrJjtAC&pg=PA34&dq=%22zionist+initiative%22#v=onepage&q=%22zionist%3Dinitiative%22&f=false |date=15 May 2016 }} at footnote, p. 34, Always Something New to Discover: Menahem Pressler and the Beaux Arts Trio, Paragon Publishing 2011, accessed at Google Books, 5 August 2014

==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.{{cite web |url=http://www.ajhs.org/scholarship/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=285 |title=American Jewish Historical Society: American Newlyweds in Israel, 1948 |access-date=2011-04-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429081018/http://www.ajhs.org/scholarship/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=285 |archive-date=29 April 2011}} The building also contained other newspaper offices, the British press censor, the Jewish settlement police, and a Haganah post with a cache of weapons. Arab leader Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni claimed responsibility for the bombing, but historian Uri Milstein reported that the bomb had been prepared by the Nazi-trained Fawzi el-Kutub, known as "the engineer", with the involvement of two British army deserters, Cpl. Peter Mersden and Capt. Eddie Brown.Uri Milstein, History of Israel's War of Independence, Vol III (English edition: University Press of America, 1997, {{ISBN|0-7618-0769-1}}), pages 105–107.{{cite news |author=Mel Bezalel |date=7 May 2009 |url=http://www.jpost.com/LocalIsrael/InJerusalem/Article.aspx?id=141579 |title=The truth is louder than TNT |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=2013-11-21 |archive-date=30 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430013511/https://www.jpost.com/LocalIsrael/InJerusalem/Article.aspx?id=141579 |url-status=live }} Four people were killed in the bombing, including three Post employees.{{Cite web |date=2018-02-01 |title=70 years on: The bombing of the 'Post' offices, and its legacy |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/70-years-on-the-bombing-of-the-post-offices-and-the-papers-legacy-540401 |access-date=2023-11-22 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en-US |archive-date=22 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122155134/https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/70-years-on-the-bombing-of-the-post-offices-and-the-papers-legacy-540401 |url-status=live }} According to the Palestine Post at the time, a newspaper typesetter and two people who lived in a nearby block of flats died.The Palestine Post, 5 February 1948, p3. 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.

File:Palestine Post Bombing.jpg

=The Jerusalem Post=

== Labor movement, 1950–1989 ==

In 1950, two years after the State of Israel was declared, the paper was renamed The Jerusalem Post.{{Cite news |date=April 24, 1950 |title="Palestine Post" Only English Newspaper in Israel, Renamed "Jerusalem Post" |url=http://pdfs.jta.org/1950/1950-04-24_078.pdf?_ga=2.109648005.1851059828.1715194827-259079628.1696848715 |access-date=May 22, 2024 |work=JTA Daily News Bulletin |publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |page=4 |publication-place=New York |volume=XVII |issue=78 |postscript=. News item's dateline: JERUSALEM, April 23. Republished separately at www.jta.org/archive/palestine-post-only-english-newspaper-in-israel-renamed-jerusalem-post.}} Until 1989, the paper supported the Labor Party.

== Black's Hollinger, 1989–2004 ==

In 1989, the paper was purchased by Hollinger Inc., owned by Conrad Black. A number of journalists resigned from the Post after Black's takeover and founded The Jerusalem Report, a weekly magazine eventually sold to the Post. After the acquisition, the Jerusalem Post underwent a noticeable shift to the political right.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4969714.stm "The press in Israel"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090402011145/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4969714.stm |date=2 April 2009 }} BBC News, 8 May 2006{{cite journal|last=Dridi|first=Tarak|date=9 July 2020|title=Reporting Strategies of Israeli Print Media: Jerusalem Post and Haaretz as a Case Study|journal=SAGE Open|volume=10|issue=3|doi=10.1177/2158244020936986|doi-access=free}}

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 Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal as editor-in-chief. David Horovitz took over as editor-in-chief on 1 October 2004.Anat Balint, [http://www.haaretz.com/news/jlem-post-change-of-editors-1.133866 Jlem Post change of editors] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408092632/http://www.haaretz.com/news/jlem-post-change-of-editors-1.133866 |date=8 April 2016 }}, Haaretz, 5 Sep. 2004 From 2004 onward, editor David Horovitz moved the paper to the center.

== Azur's Mirkai Tikshoret, 2004– ==

On 16 November 2004, Hollinger sold the paper to Mirkaei Tikshoret Limited, a Tel Aviv-based publisher of Israeli newspapers owned by Eli Azur. CanWest Global Communications, 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-124755737.html |title=CanWest loses battle for 50% of 'Jerusalem Post' |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=2013-06-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025041543/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-124755737.html |archive-date=25 October 2012}}

In 2011, Steve Linde, pledged to provide balanced coverage of the news along with views from across the political spectrum.{{cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Editors-Notes-The-time-has-come|title=Editor's Notes: The time has come... – Opinion – Jerusalem Post|website=Jpost.com|date=12 August 2011|access-date=1 June 2019|archive-date=31 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531191349/https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Editors-Notes-The-time-has-come|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|date=12 June 2011|title=Horovitz steps down, Linde taking over as JPost editor|url=https://www.jpost.com/National-News/Horovitz-steps-down-Linde-taking-over-as-JPost-editor|website=The Jerusalem Post|access-date=30 September 2020|archive-date=30 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930182500/https://www.jpost.com/National-News/Horovitz-steps-down-Linde-taking-over-as-JPost-editor|url-status=live}} In 2011, Horovitz was succeeded by the paper's managing editor, Steve Linde, who professed to maintain political moderation and balance.{{cite news |url=http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Horovitz-steps-down-Linde-taking-over-as-JPost-editor |title=Horovitz steps down, Linde taking over as JPost editor |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |date=2011-06-12 |access-date=22 February 2015 |archive-date=15 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415114803/http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Horovitz-steps-down-Linde-taking-over-as-JPost-editor |url-status=live }} Yaakov Katz, the paper's former military analyst, former adviser to former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, and a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, succeeded Linde in April 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://forward.com/news/breaking-news/338568/jerusalem-post-names-ex-naftali-bennett-aide-as-new-editor-in-chief/|title=Jerusalem Post Names Ex-Naftali Bennett Aide as New Editor-in-Chief|last1=Dolsten|first1=Josefin|website=The Forward|language=en-US|date=April 13, 2016|access-date=2019-09-14|archive-date=20 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200420173811/https://forward.com/news/breaking-news/338568/jerusalem-post-names-ex-naftali-bennett-aide-as-new-editor-in-chief/|url-status=live}}

In January 2008, the paper announced a new partnership with The Wall Street Journal, including joint marketing and exclusive publication in Israel of The Wall Street Journal Europe.{{cite web |last=The Jerusalem Post |author-link=The Jerusalem Post |date=November 20, 2007 |orig-date=19 November 2007 |title=Post partners with Wall Street Journal |url=http://jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195127541930&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFullicle/ShowFull |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111222213432/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195127541930&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull?cid=1195127541930&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull |archive-date=22 December 2011 |access-date=21 November 2013 |website=The Jerusalem Post}}

Since 2012, the newspaper has held an annual conference in New York, The Jerusalem Post Conference, with the participation of senior figures in the Israeli government and the Jewish world. The conference was founded by the media entrepreneur Ronen Lefler, and is currently managed by the CEO of the Jerusalem Post Group, Inbar Ashkenazi.

In 2020, Reuters reported that The Jerusalem Post, along with Algemeiner, The Times of Israel and Arutz Sheva, had published op-eds written by non-existent people.{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-deepfake-activist-idUSKCN24G15E |title=Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier |date=15 July 2020 |publisher=Reuters |access-date=26 September 2020 |archive-date=26 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926073638/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-deepfake-activist-idUSKCN24G15E |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Oster |first1=Marcy |date=July 17, 2020 |title=News outlets covering Israel found, again, to have run fake op-eds |newspaper=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |url=https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/news-outlets-covering-israel-found-again-to-have-run-deepfake-op-eds |access-date=December 12, 2023 |archive-date=12 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231212132453/https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/news-outlets-covering-israel-found-again-to-have-run-deepfake-op-eds |url-status=live }} In 2020, The Daily Beast identified a network of false personas used to sneak opinion pieces aligned with UAE government policy to media outlets such as The Jerusalem Post.{{cite news |last1=Rawnsley |first1=Adam |title=Right-Wing Media Outlets Duped by a Middle East Propaganda Campaign |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wing-media-outlets-duped-by-a-middle-east-propaganda-campaign |access-date=8 July 2020 |work=The Daily Beast |date=6 July 2020 |language=en |archive-date=7 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707020036/https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wing-media-outlets-duped-by-a-middle-east-propaganda-campaign |url-status=live }} Twitter suspended some of the accounts of these fake persons on its own platform.{{cite news |last1=Vincent |first1=James |title=An online propaganda campaign used AI-generated headshots to create fake journalists |url=https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/7/21315861/ai-generated-headshots-profile-pictures-fake-journalists-daily-beast-investigation |access-date=8 July 2020 |work=The Verge |date=7 July 2020 |language=en |archive-date=7 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707231049/https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/7/21315861/ai-generated-headshots-profile-pictures-fake-journalists-daily-beast-investigation |url-status=live }}

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 Qasem Soleimani) and the caption "we are close to you where you do not think about it". The hack occurred on the second anniversary of the Assassination of Qasem Soleimani and is largely seen as a threat towards Israel.{{Cite news|date=2022-01-03|title=Israel's Jerusalem Post website hacked on Soleimani assassination anniversary|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-jerusalem-post-website-hacked-soleimani-assassination-anniversary-2022-01-03/|access-date=2022-01-03|archive-date=3 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220103103757/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-jerusalem-post-website-hacked-soleimani-assassination-anniversary-2022-01-03/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|title=JPost targeted by pro-Iranian hackers on day of Soleimani assassination|url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-691342|access-date=2022-01-03|website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com|date=3 January 2022|language=en-US|archive-date=3 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220103053429/https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-691342|url-status=live}}

In March 2023, Katz stepped down as editor-in-chief and was replaced by Avi Mayer.{{cite web|url=https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-734990|title=Avi Mayer named new editor-in-chief of 'The Jerusalem Post'|date=21 March 2023|access-date=23 March 2023|archive-date=10 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010223813/https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-734990|url-status=live}} Nine months later, Mayer was replaced by Zvika Klein.{{cite news|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/zvika-klein-tapped-as-new-chief-editor-of-jerusalem-post/|title=Zvika Klein tapped as new chief editor of Jerusalem Post|publisher=Times of Israel|access-date=13 December 2023|archive-date=13 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231213151436/https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/zvika-klein-tapped-as-new-chief-editor-of-jerusalem-post/|url-status=live}}

Products and services

= Influencer lists =

The Jerusalem Post has been publishing an annual list of the world's "50 most influential Jews" since 2010.{{Cite web |last=Linde |first=Steve |date=21 May 2010 |title=World's 50 most influential Jews |url=https://www.jpost.com/jewish-world/jewish-features/worlds-50-most-influential-jews-176071 |access-date=8 October 2023 |website=The Jerusalem Post |archive-date=1 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200401111838/http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-Features/Worlds-50-most-influential-Jews |url-status=live }} The list is released on Rosh Hashanah. In 2023, The Jerusalem Post announced the launch of a "50 most influential Jews" congress, including an awards ceremony for the honorees.{{Cite web |date=24 July 2023 |title='Post' announces 50 Most Influential Jews inaugural event |url=https://www.jpost.com/conferences/article-752201 |access-date=8 October 2023 |website=The Jerusalem Post |archive-date=7 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231007025301/https://www.jpost.com/conferences/article-752201 |url-status=live }}

= Magazines =

The Jerusalem Post also publishes a monthly magazine, IVRIT, edited by Sarit Yalov. Its target audience is people learning the Hebrew language 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 Hebrew abjad simpler.{{cite web |url=http://www.jpost.com/Ivrit/Home.aspx |title=Ivrit |publisher=Jpost.com |access-date=2013-06-08 |archive-date=23 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623180033/http://www.jpost.com/Ivrit/Home.aspx |url-status=live }} The Jerusalem Report, now edited by Steve Linde, is a fortnightly print and online glossy newsmagazine.

=JPost.com=

JPost.com was launched in December 1996. Its current version also contains an ePaper version of the daily newspaper, 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.{{cite web |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Yafo+206,+Jerusalem,+Israel&daddr=31.9103499,34.8869104+to:HaAhim+MiSlavuta+13,+Tel+Aviv-Yafo,+Israel&ll=31.928272,34.995575&spn=0.296625,0.672226&sll=31.928231,34.981618&sspn=0.296625,0.672226&geocode=FekK5QEdFzgZAinPg7piL9YCFTE_OTO-cB6wLA%3BFc3p5gEd_lQUAim1KXgGjckCFTHyjUcCsr6iYQ%3BFflP6QEdKt8SAikpsmH9dUsdFTFfII7YnWDINA&mra=ls&t=m&z=11 |title=Yafo 206, Jerusalem, Israel to HaAhim MiSlavuta 13, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel |publisher=Google Maps |access-date=2013-11-21 |archive-date=21 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521061343/https://www.google.com/maps?saddr=Yafo+206,+Jerusalem,+Israel&daddr=31.9103499,34.8869104+to:HaAhim+MiSlavuta+13,+Tel+Aviv-Yafo,+Israel&ll=31.928272,34.995575&spn=0.296625,0.672226&sll=31.928231,34.981618&sspn=0.296625,0.672226&geocode=FekK5QEdFzgZAinPg7piL9YCFTE_OTO-cB6wLA;Fc3p5gEd_lQUAim1KXgGjckCFTHyjUcCsr6iYQ;FflP6QEdKt8SAikpsmH9dUsdFTFfII7YnWDINA&mra=ls&t=m&z=11 |url-status=live }}

The site contains archives that go back to 1989, and the default search on the site sends users to archive listings, powered by ProQuest, where articles can be purchased.{{cite web |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/faq.html#available |title=Pqarchiver.com |publisher=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com |date=2008-03-02 |access-date=2013-06-08 |archive-date=25 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525023731/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/faq.html#available |url-status=dead }} 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{{when|date=August 2023}} relaunched its mobile and tablet applications, as well as its special edition for mobile viewing.

Editors

  • Gershon Agron (1932–1955)
  • Ted Lurie (1955–1974)
  • Lea Ben Dor (1974–1975)
  • Ari Rath and Erwin Frenkel (1975–1989)
  • N. David Gross (1990–1992)
  • David Bar-Illan (1992–1996)
  • Jeff Barak (1996–1999)
  • David Makovsky (1999–2000)
  • Carl Schrag (2000)
  • Jeff Barak (2000–2002)
  • Bret Stephens (2002–2004)
  • David Horovitz (2004–2011)
  • Steve Linde (2011–2016){{cite web |url=http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=224653 |title=Horovitz steps down, Linde taking over as JPost editor |date=21 November 2012 |publisher=Jpost.com |access-date=2013-06-08 |archive-date=24 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024010355/http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=224653 |url-status=live }}
  • Yaakov Katz (2016–2023){{cite web|title=Yaakov Katz named new 'Post' editor-in-chief|url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Yaakov-Katz-named-new-Post-editor-in-chief-451136|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post|date=13 April 2016|access-date=17 May 2016|archive-date=20 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420134125/http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Yaakov-Katz-named-new-Post-editor-in-chief-451136|url-status=live}}
  • Avi Mayer (2023){{cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-734990|title=Avi Mayer named new editor-in-chief of 'The Jerusalem Post'|publisher=Jerusalem Post|access-date=23 March 2023|archive-date=15 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415002436/https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-734990|url-status=live}}
  • Zvika Klein (2023-)

Agron family

Gershon Agron founded the newspaper and served as its editor until he went into public service. One of his early reporters was his nephew Martin Agronsky, who later became a famous American political journalist.{{cite book|last=Carnes|first=Mark Christopher|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZczV8ZxgL4C|title=American National Biography: Supplement|year=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-522202-9|access-date=16 March 2023|archive-date=21 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521061244/https://books.google.com/books?id=wZczV8ZxgL4C|url-status=live}} Agronsky left the paper after only a year.{{cite book|last=Husseini|first=Rafiq|date=April 30, 2020|title=Exiled from Jerusalem: The Diaries of Hussein Fakhri al-Khalidi|page=205|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=9781838605421}} He felt he had been hired out of nepotism and didn't like this, wanting to earn his jobs.{{cite magazine|magazine=Broadcasting|author=Broadcasting Publications|date=November 2, 1981|page=103|title=Putting it on the Line: Profile: Martin Agronsky: a broadcast journalist who's covered the world}}{{cite book|title=Now the News: The Story of Broadcast Journalism|last=Bliss|first=Edward Jr.|author-link=Ed Bliss|isbn=9780231521932|year=2010|publisher=Columbia University Press|pages=119–120}}

Agron's son Dani Agron worked for the newspaper, serving as its business manager in the 1970s,{{cite web|title='It is always better to explain than to fight'|url=https://www.jpost.com/diplomatic-conference/it-is-always-better-to-explain-than-to-fight-384018|access-date=2021-09-27|website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com|date=8 December 2014 |language=en-US|archive-date=2021-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927221502/https://www.jpost.com/diplomatic-conference/it-is-always-better-to-explain-than-to-fight-384018|url-status=live}} while his wife Ethel wrote for Hadassah Magazine.{{cite book|last1=Reinharz|first1=Shulamit|last2=Raider|first2=Mark A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S9Fm_AQi0k8C|title=American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise|date=2005|publisher=UPNE|isbn=978-1-58465-439-1|pages=243–254|access-date=16 March 2023|archive-date=21 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521061245/https://books.google.com/books?id=S9Fm_AQi0k8C|url-status=live}} Martin Agronsky's son Jonathan Agronsky became a journalist in the United States.{{cite web|year=2015|first=Jonathan|last=Agronsky|title=His Guardian Angel|url=https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/his-guardian-angel|access-date=2020-11-24|website=Dartmouth Alumni Magazine|archive-date=25 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025190208/https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/his-guardian-angel|url-status=live}}

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