Steve Linde (; born April 23, 1960) is features editor at ''
Jewish News Syndicate'', a former editor-in-chief of ''
The Jerusalem Post
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'' (2011-2016), and a former editor-in-chief of ''
The Jerusalem Report'' (2017-2024).
Biography
Linde was born in
Harare
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,
Zimbabwe
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, to Jewish parents, Roseve (Saacks) and Hilyer (Hilly) Samuel Linde, and grew up in
Durban
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Situated on the east coast of South ...
,
South Africa
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.
At the age of 15, he attended a four-month "ulpan" study program at Jerusalem’s Kiryat Moriah with other South African Jewish students, which he said "cemented my love of Israel forever." He matriculated in 1977 from Carmel College in Durban, where he was head boy and earned an honors blazer with colors in academics, athletics, rugby and debating. After completing a one-year program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's
Rothberg International School, he received a bachelor's in Journalism and Media Studies from
Rhodes University
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Established in 1904, Rhodes University is the prov ...
, where he won a scholarship from the
Daily Dispatch. He went on to earn graduate degrees in sociology from the
University of Kwazulu-Natal
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and journalism from the
University of California at Berkeley
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. He wrote his sociology thesis on the emergence of
Mohandas Gandhi
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as a charismatic leader in South Africa (under Professor
Fatima Meer
Fatima Meer (12 August 1928 – 12 March 2010) was a South African writer, academic, screenwriter, and prominent anti-apartheid activist.
Early life
Fatima Meer was born in the Grey Streets of Durban, South Africa, into a middle-class family ...
), and his journalism thesis on the homeless in Berkeley (under Professors
Ben Bagdikian
Ben-hur Haig Bagdikian (January 30, 1920 – March 11, 2016) was an American journalist, news media critic and commentator, and university professor. An Armenian genocide survivor, he moved to the United States as an infant and began a journalis ...
and Bernard Taper).
Linde immigrated to Israel in 1988 and served in the IDF Artillery Corps. He was a popular radio broadcaster for 22 years (1989-2011), working as an editor, reporter, newsreader and for five years as director of English News at
Kol Yisrael (Israel Radio). He started working at ''The Jerusalem Post'' in 1997, doing stints as night editor, news editor, managing editor and editor-in-chief. Under his five-year editorship, the newspaper boosted its international stature, launching annual conferences in New York for its American readership and in Israel for the foreign diplomatic corps. At the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference in 2013, which Linde called the highlight of his career, he interviewed Israel's ninth president
Shimon Peres
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on stage at the Daniel Herzliya Hotel. At the Fifth Annual Jerusalem Post Conference at the New York Marriott Marquis on May 22, 2016, when he handed over to his successor,
Yaakov Katz, Linde interviewed two of his heroes, American actor
Michael Douglas
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and media personality Dr.
Ruth Westheimer
Karola Ruth Westheimer (née Siegel; June 4, 1928 – July 12, 2024), better known as Dr. Ruth, was a German and American sex therapist and talk show host.
Westheimer was born in Germany to a Jewish family. As the Nazis came to power, her paren ...
. He has served as a judge for the Israeli schools' Sia'h VaSig Harry Hurwitz Public Speaking League, Alon High School's Isaac Ochberg Creative Writing Project and the Nefesh B'Nefesh
Bonei Zion Prize. After stepping down as editor of ''
The Jerusalem Report'' in January 2025, a position he held for seven years, he became features editor at
Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) in February 2025.
References
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1960 births
Living people
The Jerusalem Post editors