Ari Rath, News Editor for PforP.net

Born in 1925 in Vienna, Rath was forced to emigrate in 1938 and went to Palestine where he gained initial journalistic experience as an assistant correspondent to the Special Meeting of the United Nations in New York that was called to solve the Palestinian problem.

From 1975 to 1989, Ari Rath was publisher and editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post, which under Rath represented a liberal line. To this day he is still considered one of the most distinguished journalists in Israel.

The documentary film "A Life of many Lives" (2004), directed by Helga Embacher, portrays stages in the life of Ari Rath. The son of a typical Jewish bourgeois Viennese family had to transform his life totally at the age of 13 when, with Austria`s Anschluss to Hitler`s "Third Reich", the world he knew collapsed overnight.

At the age of eighty, the former editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post, Ari Rath, is once again an Austrian. At a reception in Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik presented Rath with a "surprise gift" documenting citizenship. After having previously declined citizenship in the past, Rath submitted an application for naturalization in May of 2005.

Ari Rath is the chief editor of PforP.net – “Partners for Peace”, the voice of the Copenhagen Group. For his work he has received the Mideast Press Award from the International Media Council’s annual "Peace through Media" project in 2005.

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