The Jerusalem Report
 Cover of the September 11, 2017 edition | |
| Editor | Ruth Marks Eglash |
|---|---|
| Categories | Newsmagazine |
| Frequency | Semi-monthly (formerly weekly) |
| Circulation | 50,000 |
| Founded | 1990 |
| Company | The Jerusalem Post Group |
| Country | Israel |
| Based in | Jerusalem |
| Language | English |
| Website | jpost |
| ISSN | 0792-6049 |
The Jerusalem Report is a semi-monthly print and online newsmagazine covering political, military, economic, religious and cultural affairs in Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish world. Founded in 1990 as an independent weekly, it publishes 24 issues per year under the corporate umbrella of the Jerusalem Post Group, while remaining editorially independent of The Jerusalem Post. The magazine features long-form reporting, interviews, analysis, commentary, book reviews and a back-page cartoon. Its print edition has an international circulation of approximately 50,000 copies.[1]
In December 2025, The Jerusalem Report merged with the International Jerusalem Post, a weekly edition of The Jerusalem Post serving its global readership since 1959.[2]
History
[edit]Founding
[edit]The Jerusalem Report was established in 1990 by Hirsh Goodman, a South African-born Israeli journalist who had previously served as military correspondent and later a senior editor at The Jerusalem Post.[3] Goodman and several colleagues departed The Jerusalem Post following Conrad Black's acquisition of that paper[4] and conceived of the new magazine as providing a "mutual mirror" for Diaspora Jews and Israelis to learn about one another.[5] The magazine was initially funded by five philanthropists, including Canadian businessman Charles Bronfman.[6] Goodman served as editor-in-chief and publisher for eight years until the magazine's acquisition in 1998.
Ownership
[edit]In April 1998, The Jerusalem Report was acquired by Hollinger International, Conrad Black's media company, which also owned The Jerusalem Post. The two publications maintained separate editorial operations.[7] In 2004, Mirkaei Tikshoret Ltd., a Tel Aviv-based company controlled by Israeli businessman Eli Azur, purchased both The Jerusalem Report and The Jerusalem Post from Hollinger, bringing them together under the Jerusalem Post Group.[6]
In December 2025, the magazine merged with the International Jerusalem Post, integrating the latter's weekly news digest into an expanded edition of The Jerusalem Report.[2]
Editors
[edit]| Editor | Tenure |
|---|---|
| Hirsh Goodman | 1990–1998 |
| David Horovitz | 1998–2004 |
| Sharon Ashley | 2004–2006[8] |
| Eetta Prince-Gibson | 2006–2011 |
| Matthew Kalman | January–May 2012 |
| Avi Hoffmann | June–November 2012 |
| Ilan Evyatar | December 2012–May 2017[9] |
| Steve Linde | June 2017–January 2025[10] |
| Tamar Uriel-Beeri | January–May 2025 |
| Benjamin Glatt (interim) | June–September 2025 |
| Ruth Marks Eglash | October 2025–present |
Notable coverage and awards
[edit]In January 1999, The Jerusalem Report correspondent Micha Odenheimer won the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's Boris Smolar Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism for his cover story "The Abandoned Jews of Quara," which drew international attention to the situation of Jews in Ethiopia and contributed to their airlift to Israel.[11]
In 2000, American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg described The Jerusalem Report as "the best periodical published in Israel, in English or Hebrew. The Jerusalem Report is a beacon of professionalism and sobriety in a press culture that sometimes resembles the National Hockey League."[12]
In 2004, The Jerusalem Report won the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's Boris Smolar Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism for its coverage of the Jewish world.[1]
In April 2018, columnist Amotz Asa-El's five-part series on the future of the Jewish people won the B'nai Brith World Center Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage.[13]
In July 2023, staff writer Maayan Hoffman won two American Jewish Press Association Rockower Awards for articles published in The Jerusalem Report.[14]
Publications
[edit]In 1996, the staff of The Jerusalem Report published Shalom, Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, a biography of assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, edited by then-managing editor David Horovitz. The book drew on reporting by more than two dozen of the magazine's writers and correspondents and was published by Newmarket Press in New York.[15]
Controversies
[edit]Avi Katz dismissal (2018)
[edit]In July 2018, The Jerusalem Report dismissed its back-page cartoonist, Avi Katz, following an illustration depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his Likud party as pigs taking a selfie, captioned with a line from George Orwell's Animal Farm: "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others." The cartoon was drawn in response to the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, which had passed in the Knesset days earlier. The magazine's management deemed the cartoon offensive and terminated Katz's contract.[16]
The dismissal drew widespread condemnation. PEN America stated that "Katz's dismissal is an unacceptable attack on the rights of journalists and artists and marks a new low for freedom of expression in Israel."[17] The Union of Journalists in Israel called for Katz's reinstatement and declared that "harming a journalist for expressing his opinion, particularly when it was approved by their editors, is a dangerous step that we must not accept."[18] Writer Haim Watzman, a regular contributor to the magazine, resigned in protest, stating he "cannot be associated with a publication that dumps a staff member simply because his work has upset some readers."[19]
Katz was rehired as The Jerusalem Report's cartoonist in September 2023.
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Jerusalem Report". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
- 1 2 Eglash, Ruth Marks (2025-12-01). "A new era for The Jerusalem Report – from the editor". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2026-01-15.
- ↑ "Hirsh Goodman". Jerusalem Press Club. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ↑ "Jerusalem Report". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ↑ "Goodman, Hirsh 1946–". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- 1 2 "History of Hollinger International Inc". FundingUniverse. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
- ↑ "WORLD - Jerusalem Post buys 49% of Jerusalem Report". www.hurriyetdailynews.com. Archived from the original on 2013-06-06. Retrieved 2026-06-30.
- ↑ "Former 'J'lem Report' editor to head new Hillel center". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
- ↑ "Turning 80". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
- ↑ "Grapevine: Happy birthday, Rabbi Lau". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
- ↑ "Prize in Jewish Journalism Awarded". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 1999-01-13. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
- ↑ Goldberg, Jeffrey (2000-06-25). "Where the Political Is Personal". The New York Times Book Review. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
- ↑ "'Post' columnist Asa-El wins B'nai B'rith journalism award". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
- ↑ "14 Days: Presidential summit". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
- ↑ "Shalom, Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ↑ "Cartoonist axed for 'Animal Farm' pigs drawing of Netanyahu and colleagues". The Times of Israel. 2018-07-25. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
- ↑ "Dismissal of Israeli Cartoonist Avi Katz is an Unacceptable Attack on Free Expression". PEN America. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ↑ "Jerusalem Report Cartoonist, Fired Over Nation-State Caricature, Tells Us What Happened". The Forward. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ↑ "Journalist Quits After Jerusalem Post Fires Cartoonist Over Caricature Mocking Netanyahu". Haaretz. 2018-07-26. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- "Jerusalem Post buys 49% of Jerusalem Report". Hurriyet Daily News. 1998-04-07. Archived from the original on 2013-06-06. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
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External links
[edit]- The Jerusalem Report at JPost.com
