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The Times of Israel

Israeli centrist, pro-Israel orientation

Owned byPrivately co-owned by founding editor David Horovitz and American hedge fund billionaire Seth Klarman, chairman and seed funder
FundingDigital advertising is the primary revenue source; privately funded at launch by Seth Klarman with a stated goal of becoming financially self-sustaining; annual revenue estimated around $11 million
On the administrationmixed

Background

The Times of Israel launched in February 2012, founded by David Horovitz — a veteran Israeli-British journalist who previously edited The Jerusalem Post — and Seth Klarman, the Boston-based hedge fund billionaire who chairs the outlet and provided its initial funding. Klarman, a major Jewish philanthropist, has said he backed the venture because he felt English-language coverage of Israel was inadequate. The outlet expanded to offer Hebrew, Arabic, and French editions and grew rapidly, recording 64.2 million visits in October 2023 during the Gaza conflict, a 604 percent year-on-year increase that briefly ranked it as the world's fastest-growing news website. Alongside its professional newsroom, the outlet runs an open community blogging platform that publishes outside contributors without editorial oversight; this drew international criticism in 2014 when it briefly published a post titled 'When Genocide is Permissible' — which editors quickly removed and condemned as 'damnable and ignorant.' In 2016, a Haaretz investigation revealed that Klarman had donated $1.5 million to a right-wing U.S. media watchdog, raising questions about the outlet's stated independence. Media bias analysts (Media Bias/Fact Check, AllSides) rate the staff-written news coverage as centrist to center-left on U.S. political topics, while the opinion and blog sections lean strongly pro-Israel. Coverage of the Trump administration's second term tracks the complex and frequently shifting U.S.-Israel relationship, reporting both tensions (including accounts of Trump privately criticizing Netanyahu) and cooperation.

Sources

  1. The Times of Israel - Wikipedia
  2. About The Times of Israel and its staff
  3. Times of Israel - Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check
  4. The Times of Israel Media Bias - AllSides
  5. The Softspoken Man Behind Times of Israel - The Forward
  6. Times of Israel Cofounder Gave $1.5 Million to Right-wing Media Watchdog - Haaretz
  7. Times of Israel pulls 'permissible genocide' blog - New Statesman
  8. Seth Klarman - Wikipedia

Profile compiled 2026-06-25; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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