Steve Linde

Steve Linde is a former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post (2011-2016) and as of June 2017, serves as editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report.

Linde was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, on April 23, 1960, and grew up in Durban, South Africa. As a 15-year-old, he attended a four-month "ulpan" at Jerusalem’s Kiryat Moriah, which he said "cemented my love of Israel forever." He matriculated with an A aggregate in 1977 from Carmel College in Durban, where he was head boy and earned an honors blazer with colors in academics, athletics, rugby and debating. After a one-year program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Rothberg International School, he received a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Media Studies from Rhodes University, where he won the Rand Daily Mail Scholarship. He went on to complete graduate degrees in sociology from the University of Kwazulu-Natal in Durban, and journalism from the University of California at Berkeley. He wrote his sociology thesis on the emergence of Mahatma Gandhi as a charismatic leader in South Africa (under the supervision of Professor Fatima Meer), and his journalism thesis on the homeless in Berkeley (under the supervision of Professor Bernard Taper).

Linde immigrated to Israel in 1988 and served in the IDF Artillery Corps. He was a popular radio broadcaster for 21 years (1990-2011), working as an editor, reporter, news reader and for several years as director of English News at Kol Yisrael (Israel Radio). He worked at The Jerusalem Post for 20 years (1997-2017), doing stints as night editor, news editor, managing editor, senior features editor and editor-in-chief. Under his five-year editorship, the newspaper boosted its international stature, launching annual conferences in New York for its American readership and in Jerusalem for the foreign diplomatic corps posted in Israel. At the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference in 2013, which Linde called the highlight of his career, he interviewed Israel's Ninth President Shimon Peres in front of a packed audience of diplomats, VIP guests and journalists. At the Fifth Annual Jerusalem Post Conference in New York on May 22, 2016, where he officially handed the baton to his successor, Yaakov Katz, Linde interviewed actor Michael Douglas and media personality Dr. Ruth Westheimer on stage at the New York Marriott Marquis before an audience of some 1,500 people.

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