Times of Israel
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Type of site
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Online newspaper |
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| Available in | English, Arabic, French, Chinese, Persian |
| Owners | Seth Klarman David Horovitz |
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David Horovitz (Founding Editor) Suha Halifa (Arabic) Stephanie Bitan (French) Li Jingjing 李晶晶 (Chinese) Avi Davidi (Persian) |
| Website | www |
| Launched | February 2012 |
The Times of Israel is an Israeli-based news website launched in 2012. It was co-founded by journalist David Horovitz, who is also the founding editor, and US hedge fund manager Seth Klarman. The online English website covers "developments in Israel, the Middle East and around the Jewish world," according to the site's nameplate. It also covers news related to the American Jewish community. The website also publishes Arabic, French, Chinese and Persian editions.
In addition to publishing news reports and analysis, the website hosts a multi-author blog platform.
In February 2014, two years after its launch, The Times of Israel claimed a readership of two million. In 2017, readership increased to 3.5 million unique monthly users.
The Times of Israel was launched in February 2012. Its co-founders are Seth Klarman, founder of the Baupost Group and chairman of The David Project, and David Horovitz, formerly the editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post and The Jerusalem Report, and a veteran journalist who has covered the Middle East and the Arab–Israeli peace process for thirty years.
Several Times of Israel editors had previously worked for the Haaretz English edition, including Joshua Davidovich and Raphael Ahren, and Haaretz Arab affairs correspondent Avi Isaacharoff joined as Middle East analyst.
The Times of Israel launched its Arabic edition, edited by Suha Halifa, on 4 February 2014, its French edition, edited by Stephanie Bitan, on 25 February 2014, its Chinese edition, edited by Jingjing Li, on 28 May 2014, and its Persian edition, edited by Avi Davidi, on 7 October 2015.
Both the Arabic and French editions combine translations of English content with original material in their respective languages, and also host a blog platform. In announcing the Arabic edition, Horovitz suggested, The Times of Israel may have created the first Arabic blog platform that "draw[s] articles from across the spectrum of opinion. We're inviting those of our Arabic readers with something of value that they want to say to blog on our pages, respecting the parameters of legitimate debate, joining our marketplace of ideas." In order "to avoid the kind of anonymous comments that can reduce discussion to toxic lows", comments on news articles and features in all of the site's editions can only be posted by readers identified through their Facebook profiles or equivalent.
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