Stanley Goldfoot and The Times of Israel Remembered

 Nadene Goldfoot                                             

This is my 3rd cousin, Stanley Goldfoot.  When I made aliyah in 1980, the first thing I did was search for him in the telephone directory and found him.  We met at the King David Hotel.  I was lucky enough to meet him several times after that at his lovely home in Jerusalem. We had an intermediary 2nd cousin of mine, Ian Goldfoot, who was closer to Stanley that I've also met.  They both were from South Africa.  It appears my grandfather was the only one to opt for the USA after their Dublin, Ireland residence after Telsiai, Lithuania.   

On November 24, 2006 at the age of 92, Stanley Goldfoot  passed away, but his memory and his words are truly for a blessing.  His dream was to establish a Zionist English newspaper in Israel, called “The Times of Israel”.  In his first issue he wrote words that are as relevant today as when they were first written – perhaps even more so.  It is there he placed his essay, Letter to the World.  So wrote Jack Berger of the Times of Israel.  

Jack Yehoshua Berger remembered his words, and added his thoughts updating Stanley's letter, calling it Jerusalem 2019.

With further digging, I found what I was looking for;  proof that Stanley started The Times of Israel.

The story begins in early April 1968 as United Nations journalist David Horowitz departed for Israel. This was to be his 10th visit and his first since the Six-Day War. Among the many items on a busy agenda was a scheduled meeting with leaders of The Israeli World Union for the Propagation of Judaism. There was however, another important meeting on Horowitz’s agenda, one with another fellow journalist with a storied past.

1968: UIWU turns 25 and Horowitz meets with legendary Zionist Stanley Goldfoot.

 

Horowitz had founded United Israel World Union in the mid nineteen-forties as well as the World Union Press to produce the regular issues of the United Israel Bulletin. His scheduled appointment was with Stanley Goldfoot, a journalist turned publisher-editor of a projected new Israeli English daily that Goldfoot wanted to call The Times of Israel. He needed Horowitz’s input and advice.

Goldfoot was born in May of 1914 in Johannesburg South Africa to Sarah, a descendant of the Mayor of Liverpool, and Shimon, born in Vilnius and a direct descendant of Rabbi Eliahu, the Gaon of Vilna. He studied at King Edward School. In 1933 he made aliyah to Palestine illegally. He felt the genetic legacy of Zionism, inherited from the Gaon of Vilna, pushing him to come to Eretz (the land) Israel. There he joined Kibbutz Degania.......By the end of 1968, The Times of Israel was launched by Stanley Goldfoot and co-operator Dr. Yisrael Eldad. It reached a circulation of approximately 50,000 copies in the US and Israel before it folded after seven years of publication. That means it ended in 1975.  

"Fast forward to the year 2012. Social media had come of age in less than a generation. EMarketer, a reliable market research company, predicted there would be a massive 1.43 billion social network users, representing a 19 percent increase over 2011 figures. Social media platforms were springing up worldwide. One was a new online newspaper with an old familiar name: The Times of Israel."

                 Stanley Goldfoot; LEHI ALIAS: Yiermiahu

Stanley was Chief of Intelligence for "The Stern Group."  

"This reincarnation of an older news daily has enjoyed steady growth and success. Along with its original English-language site, The Times of Israel now publishes in Arabic, French, and Persian editions. In May 2019, it launched a Hebrew news site, Zman Yisrael. By the end of 2021, the paper had on average over 9 million unique users each month and over 35 million monthly page views".

Ralph Buntyn is executive vice president and associate editor of United Israel World Union. An author, historian and researcher, his many articles and essays have appeared in various media outlets. He's the author of The Times of Israel, Acts I and II.  

Jack Berger had recognized that Stanley started "The Times of Israel," a fact the newspaper has not acknowledged in my searches about their history. Jack has a blog on today's Times of Israel.  

 

Resource:

https://unitedisraelworldunion.com/the-times-of-israel-acts-i-and-ii/excellent information in agreement with what he told me....

Genesis 1948 by Dan Kurzman; p. 557, 561, 564, 568 on Stanley Goldfoothttps://www.bethrishon.org/post/yiddish-historian-jack-berger-connects-with-polish-familyhttps://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-letter-to-the-world-from-jerusalem-2019/https://www.jewishpress.com/author/yehoshuaberger/

https://womeningreen.org/a-jewish-hero-in-our-time/