What is Ari Rath?
[[File:Ari Rath-4224 (10470447586).jpg|thumb|Rath in October 2013]] '''Ari Rath''' ({{Lang-he|ארי רט}}&lrm;; 6 January 1925 &ndash; 13 January 2017) was an [[Austria]]n-[[Israel]]i journalist and writer. He was born and grew up in [[Vienna]]. After the ''[[Anschluss]]'', Rath, who was [[Jewish]], came through a [[Kindertransport]] as a thirteen-year-old boy to [[Palestine]]. In 1975, he became an editor for ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]''. Later, in 1979, he became the chief editor. In 1989, he left ''The Jerusalem Post'', and taught at the [[University of Potsdam]]. He supported a peaceful bringing together of Israel and Palestine. Rath died on 13 January 2017 in Vienna at the age of 92.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://derstandard.at/2000050666636/Ari-Rath-1925-2017|title=Publizist und Zeitzeuge Ari Rath gestorben|language=de|date=13 January 2017|access-date=13 January 2017|work=[[Der Standard]]|author=[[Alexandra Föderl-Schmid|Föderl-Schmid, Alexandra]]}}</ref> ==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rath, Ari}} [[Category:1925 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Austrian Jews]] [[Category:Israeli journalists]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of Israel]] [[Category:Refugees from Nazism]] {{Bio-stub}}