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The Times of Israel was co-founded by Israeli journalist David Horovitz, who serves as its founding editor, and American billionaire investor Seth Klarman, founder of the Baupost Group. Klarman serves as chairman of the website.
The Times of Israel launched in February 2012 as an English-language online newspaper based in Jerusalem.
The Times of Israel publishes in English, Hebrew (via Zman Yisrael), Arabic, French, and Persian. The Arabic and French editions launched in February 2014, the Persian edition on the 7th of October 2015, and the Hebrew site on the 1st of May 2019.
By 2021 the paper reported over nine million unique monthly users and more than 35 million monthly pageviews. In June 2025, Similarweb recorded 45 million visits in a single month, with more than half of that traffic coming from the United States.
Most outside sources describe The Times of Israel as centrist. Founding editor David Horovitz stated in 2012 that the outlet is independent and not affiliated with any political party.
In November 2023, following the outbreak of the Gaza war on the 7th of October 2023, the site's web visits rose 604 percent year-on-year to 64.2 million. That surge pushed the outlet into the Press Gazette's top-50 global news sites ranking for the first time, at 42nd place.