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Jerold S. Auerbach

Jerold S. Auerbach is the author of 12 books, including Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel (1896-2016) and Israel 1896-2016, selected for Mosaic by Ruth Wisse and Martin Kramer as a “Best Book for 2019.”

It was in Hebron where David became king of Israel, ruling for seven years before relocating his throne in Jerusalem.
“The New York Times” will never make peace with the existence of a Jewish state in the biblical homeland of the Jewish people.
“New York Times” bureau chiefs and columnists have been unrelenting in their criticism of settlers.
It was during my trips to Israel that I finally embraced myself and my heritage.
I cherish the short time I spent with Elyakim Haetzni, who helped bring Jewish life back to Hebron.
Jewish statehood was staunchly opposed by the newspaper of record, lest it compromise the loyalty of American Jews to their home country.
The movement, concludes writer Daniel Kane, “no longer exists as a coherent whole”; indeed, there are “many differences among them.”
The columnist concludes (absurdly) that “only Saudi Arabia and Israeli Arabs can save Israel as a Jewish democracy.”
Following World War I, British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill gifted the land east of the Jordan River—until then part of “Palestine,” according to the League of Nations Mandate—to Britain’s wartime ally Abdullah for his own kingdom.