The Jerusalem Post is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, 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. The Jerusalem Post is published in English. Previously, it also had a French edition.
B'nai B'rith International is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit Jewish service organization and was formerly a German Jewish cultural association. B'nai B'rith states that it is committed to the security and continuity of the Jewish people and the State of Israel and combating antisemitism and other forms of bigotry.
Amotz Asa-El is a bestselling Israeli author and award-winning journalist, The Jerusalem Post's senior commentator and former executive editor, and a fellow at the Hartman Institute.
Washington Jewish Week (WJW) is an independent community weekly newspaper whose logo reads, "Serving the nation's capital and the greater Washington Jewish community since 1930." Its main office is located in Rockville, Maryland, a Maryland suburb of the District of Columbia.
David Horovitz 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 February 2012. Previously, he had been the editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post and The Jerusalem Report.
Israeli casualties of war, in addition to those of Israel's nine major wars, include 9,745 soldiers and security forces personnel killed in "miscellaneous engagements and terrorist attacks", which includes security forces members killed during military operations, by fighting crime, natural disasters, diseases, traffic or labor accidents and disabled veterans whose disabilities contributed to their deaths. Between 1948 and 1997, 20,093 Israeli soldiers were killed in combat, 75,000 Israelis were wounded, and nearly 100,000 Israelis were considered disabled army veterans. On the other hand, in 2010 Yom Hazikaron, Israel honored the memory of 22,684 Israeli soldiers and pre-Israeli Palestinian Jews killed since 1860 in the line of duty for the independence, preservation and protection of the nation, and 3,971 civilian terror victims. The memorial roll, in addition to IDF members deceased, also include fallen members of the Shin Bet security service, the Mossad intelligence service, the Israel Police, the Border Police, the Israel Prisons Service, other Israeli security forces, the pre-state Jewish underground, and the Jewish Brigade and the Jewish Legion.
Amir Mizroch is an Israeli journalist and communications advisor. He previously worked for Israeli tech NGO Start-Up Nation Central as Director of Communications. He is a consultant to strategic communications company Milltown Partners. Previously he was the technology editor for Europe, The Middle East and Africa at The Wall Street Journal, based in London. Before that he presented a current affairs radio show on TLV1. He was founding editor of the English Edition of Israel Hayom,. Amir spent 8 years at The Jerusalem Post, serving as managing editor – Internet, news editor, features editor, and eventually as executive editor.
Yaakov Katz is an American-born Israeli journalist and author who served as the Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post.
Benzion Netanyahu was an Israeli encyclopedist, historian, and medievalist. He served as a professor of history at Cornell University. A scholar of Judaic history, he was also an activist in the Revisionist Zionism movement, who lobbied in the United States to support the creation of the Jewish state. His field of expertise was the history of the Jews in Spain. He was an editor of the Hebrew Encyclopedia and assistant to Benjamin Azkin, Ze'ev Jabotinsky's personal secretary.
Yair Qedar is an Israeli documentary filmmaker, social activist and former journalist. In his project "the Hebrews", he had been Chronicling the lives of Jewish and Israeli figures of the modern Hebrew literary canon, Qedar's 19 feature length documentaries have all premiered at film festivals and have won the director over 30 prizes. Also, Qedar is a leading LGBTQ activist. He created several Queer films and the first Israeli LGBTQ newspaper.
Elihu Ben-Onn is a retired Israeli brigadier general, former Israel Police spokesman and a senior National Radio broadcaster, international talk-show host and journalist in Kol Yisrael.
Avi Katz is a veteran Israeli illustrator and cartoonist.
Hannah Semer was an Israeli journalist. She was Editor in Chief of Davar from 1970 until 1990, the first female editor in chief of a major Israeli daily newspaper.
Anshel Pfeffer is a British-Israeli journalist. He is a senior correspondent and columnist for Haaretz, covering military, Jewish and international affairs, and Israel correspondent for The Economist.
Steve Linde is a former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post (2011-2016), and since 2017 has served as editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report.
Asher Weill is an English-born Israeli editor and publisher, who introduced western publishing standards to Israel and published the biographies and writings of a very large number of Israel's political leaders. He edited Ariel - The Israel Review of Arts and Letters for over 20 years. He was a founding director of the Jerusalem International Book Fair, the Israel Debating Society, and the Anglo-Israel Colloquium. Awards he has received include: Friend of Jerusalem and the Bonei Zion Prize in 2015 in recognition of his contribution to Israel's cultural and literary life for over 50 years.
Avraham Avi-hai was an Israeli civil servant, journalist and author who was a member of the Jewish Agency for Israel and World Zionist Organization executives. He served on the staff of Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, as secretary for public affairs to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, and as World Chairman of Keren Hayesod–United Israel Appeal.
Arnold Ages was a Canadian-born scholar, author, editor and journalist. As an academic, he published 90 scholarly articles and books between 1956 and 2001, not limited to his specialty of French Enlightenment literature; as a journalist, his newspaper publications spanned over five decades and included book reviews, editorials, opinion pieces, interviews, and reports for journals across Canada and the United States. His views were conservative, strongly supportive of the State of Israel, and traditionally Jewish. He preferred discretion to controversy.
Avi Gil is a former Israeli diplomat who served as director general of The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 2003 he as a Senior Fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI).
Lahav Harkov is an American-born Israeli journalist who currently serves as the Senior Political Correspondent of Jewish Insider covering Israeli politics & diplomacy. She was formerly the Senior Contributing Editor and Diplomatic Correspondent of The Jerusalem Post.
