Jerusalem Post Magazine

Pros: The source of choice as a voice from within the region

Cons: Deliberately limited in scope

The Bottom Line: Excellent hard news reportage, superb access, cogent analysis, and a keen eye for the little clouds on the horizon

Review: When it comes to foreign news sources, I’m picky. Certainly I will read, on occasion, The Times (London). But I know perfectly well it has become a Blairite organ, just as much as it was, in Geoffrey Dawson’s dark days, the abject...

Pros: Thoughtful, balanced, committed to truth

Cons: Written primarily to its constituency, requires a basic knowledge of Israeli history

The Bottom Line: The Jerusalem Post offers readers an educated, relatively indepth source of news and commentary from and about the Middle East.

Review: The features and news available to readers in the Jerusalem Post are as familiar to me as those I regularly read in The Washington Post. Through times of war and rumors of peace, I've been an intermittent subscriber for roughly 30...

Pros: Lots of local news

Cons: reads like a school newspaper. Poor English, very right wing

The Bottom Line: Ok for local news if you can ignore the strong right wing bias. Not considered a serious paper by the foreign press. Only read it at my in-laws!

Review: When I arrived in Israel in 1983, the Jerusalem Post was the only English language daily newspaper. I used to enjoy reading it and it's (then) left histadrut leanings didn't bother me.
There were so many good writers then such as Pinchas Peli, Alex...