I’m David Horovitz, the Founding Editor of The Times of Israel.
Has The Times of Israel become an important news source to you? If so, I’ll ask you to join The Times of Israel Community, our reader-supported group that helps fund our journalism.
Since we launched The Times of Israel in 2012, it has gradually established itself as the leading source of evenhanded and nonpartisan journalism on Israel and the Jewish World. We now average over 8 million unique users each month and over 40 million monthly page views. We maintain a vibrant blog platform where writers address the pressing issues of the day in a personal voice. We partner with 7 leading Jewish newspapers around the world to offer a global network of local coverage. And we publish daily in 5 languages, including in Hebrew on our sister site, Zman Yisrael.
The growth of The Times of Israel, its resonance and its credibility, stem in large part from our growing investment in original journalism.
As we’ve grown and succeeded, we’ve devoted ever greater financial resources to our reporting and editing, hiring talented new staffers so that we can give readers more groundbreaking material — more original reporting from around the Jewish world; more investigative journalism; more expert analysis to enable readers to better understand the news and form nuanced, credibly based opinions.
Unlike many other news outlets, we do not charge for access to our content. All of our material is available to readers free of charge. We haven’t put up a paywall. And that’s not changing.
Instead, we are inviting you to partner in our work by joining The Times of Israel Community. You can make a monthly contribution from $6 and up — $10, $20, or any other sum that you are comfortable with. We, in turn, will remove all ads from your Times of Israel experience and give special benefits to all Community members, regardless of the sum paid.
Journalism in the internet era is a challenging business in many ways, notably economically. Revenue from ads on internet pages is far lower than revenue from print editions. By joining The Times of Israel Community, you’ll be helping us to keep our reporting independent, cutting-edge — and free.
We hope you too believe that’s worth doing.
Thank you,
David Horovitz
