Ari Rath

Ari Rath is one of Israel’s veteran journalists, whose views and commentaries are often sought by various international media. He worked for 31 years with Israel’s well-known English-language newspaper The Jerusalem Post, having been its Editor and Managing Director for over 15 years.He was born in Vienna in 1925 and could leave Austria for Palestine, eight months after the “Anschluss”, in November 1938, with one of the first groups of Jewish youth. After three years of work and studies in the “Ahavah” school near Haifa, he lived for 16 years on a Kibbutz and was active in the pioneering Labour-Zionist youth movement, both in Israel and in the U.S.A. During his studies of History and Economics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he joined The Jerusalem Post in 1958, which he had to leave in 1989, when the Canadian owners of the Hollinger Corporation bought the paper.

Ari Rath is a frequent guest lecturer at conferences which deal with the Middle East Peace Process, the history and development of the media and German-Israel relations. Today, he still edits an internet newspaper Partners for Peace, together with a Palestinian editor (www.pforp.net).

His presentation:

The Role of the Editor in Israels Media World