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The Jerusalem Post traces its founding to the 1st of December 1932, when Gershon Agronsky launched The Palestine Post Incorporating The Palestine Bulletin. Its direct ancestral paper, The Palestine Bulletin, was founded in January 1925 by Jacob Landau of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The paper adopted the name The Jerusalem Post in 1950.
On the evening of the 1st of February 1948, a car packed with half a ton of TNT exploded outside the Palestine Post offices on Solel Street in Jerusalem, killing four people including three Post employees. Arab leader Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni claimed responsibility, though historian Uri Milstein reported the bomb was prepared by Fawzi el-Kutub, known as "the engineer", with the involvement of two British army deserters, Cpl. Peter Mersden and Capt. Eddie Brown.
The Jerusalem Post supported the Israeli Labor Party until 1989, when Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc. acquired it and the paper shifted noticeably to the right. Under editor-in-chief David Horovitz, who began his tenure on the 1st of October 2004, the paper moved back toward the center. The Post describes itself as being in the Israeli political center, though it is widely seen as center-right within Israel.
The Jerusalem Post has been owned by Mirkaei Tikshoret Limited, a Tel Aviv-based media firm, since the 16th of November 2004. The company is controlled by investor Eli Azur, who in 2014 also acquired the Israeli newspaper Maariv.
In 2020, a three-year investigation by +972 Magazine revealed that the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs had paid the Jerusalem Post to publish content against human rights movements. That same year, Reuters reported the Post had published op-eds written by non-existent people. In early December 2023, the paper published and later retracted a false article claiming a dead five-month-old Palestinian baby from Gaza was a doll.
The Jerusalem Post Lite is a weekly easy-English newspaper aimed at people learning English as a second language in Israel. It was founded on the 16th of July 2009 by Jerusalem Post Group CEO Ronit Hassin Hochman, has weekly readership in the tens of thousands, and ranks articles by reading difficulty with a one-, two-, or three-star system across its 32 pages.