Jon Kimche - Revision history

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 ==Affiliations==
 ===Connections===
 *[[David Kimche]] - brother
 *[[Edith Christina (Toni) Bromige]] - wife
 *[[Elkana Galli]] - co-founder of [[L'Observateur du Moyen Orient]]
 ==Resources==
 *University Archives [http://www.universityarchives.com/Find-an-Item/Results-List/Item-Detail.aspx?ItemID=55118 Archive of seven important content letters to leftist British journalist Jon Kimche, editor of the “Jewish Observer” in London from Shimon Peres, Eliahu Elath, Jacob Tsur, Israel Sieff and Nahum Goldmann.], Israeli Archive Judaica Number	55118, Date 1958-1963

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 [[File:Kimche Times 1967 cover of JO.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Cover of the controversial edition of the [[Jewish Observer and Middle East Review]] which led to [[Jon Kimche]] being sacked as editor by the [[Zionist Federation]] in March 1967. <ref>Source: The News Team 'An Editor challenges Instruction: Banned article will be offered this week and every week' ''[[The Times]]'', 10 March 1967, p. 12, Col D</ref>]]
 From 1952 to 1967, he was editor of the ''[[Jewish Observer and Middle East Review]]'', the official publication of the [[Zionist Federation]].<ref name="GuardianObit">Joseph Finklestone, SCOOPING THE MIDDLE EAST; Obituary: Jon Kimche, ''Guardian'', 19 March 1994.</ref>
 In March 1967, Kimche's publishers, the board of directors of the Zionist Review dismissed him after a dispute in which he accused their major stockholder, the Zionist Federation of Britain of censorship of material in the magazine. The Zionist Federation is the principal stockholder in the Zionist Review, publisher of the Observer.

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	==Jewish Observer==		==Jewish Observer==
		+	[[File:Kimche Times 1967 cover of JO.jpg\|thumb\|right\|300px\|Cover of the controversial edition of the [[Jewish Observer and Middle East Review]] which led to [[Jon Kimche]] being sacked as editor by the [[Zionist Federation]] in March 1967. <ref>Source: The News Team 'An Editor challenges Instruction: Banned article will be offered this week and every week' ''[[The Times]]'', 10 March 1967, p. 12, Col D</ref>]]
	From 1952 to 1967, he was editor of the ''[[Jewish Observer and Middle East Review]]'', the official publication of the [[Zionist Federation]].<ref name="GuardianObit">Joseph Finklestone, SCOOPING THE MIDDLE EAST; Obituary: Jon Kimche, ''Guardian'', 19 March 1994.</ref>		From 1952 to 1967, he was editor of the ''[[Jewish Observer and Middle East Review]]'', the official publication of the [[Zionist Federation]].<ref name="GuardianObit">Joseph Finklestone, SCOOPING THE MIDDLE EAST; Obituary: Jon Kimche, ''Guardian'', 19 March 1994.</ref>

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 [[File:Jon Kimche Canadian Jewish Chronicle 8 Sept 1967.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Jon Kimche]] in the [[Canadian Jewish Chronicle Review]], on his appointment as correspondent for that paper.  [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=883&dat=19670908&id=q6haAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wUsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3933,5963950 Jon Kimche joins Chronicle Review] 8 September 1967, p. 1.]]
-[[Jon Kimche]] (1909) was a Swiss-born British journalist.<ref name="TimesObit">Jon Kimche, ''The Times'', 15 March 1994.</ref>
+[[Jon Kimche]] (17 June 1909 – 9 March 1994) was a Swiss-born British journalist.<ref name="TimesObit">Jon Kimche, ''The Times'', 15 March 1994.</ref>
 ==Early life==

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 Kimche lost the job after disappearing from the office in December 1946, when he was called upon by the Zionist underground to negotiate the release of a ship full of holocaust survivors travelling to Palestine from Turkish waters.<ref name="GuardianObit">Joseph Finklestone, SCOOPING THE MIDDLE EAST; Obituary: Jon Kimche, ''Guardian'', 19 March 1994.</ref><ref name="TimesObit">Jon Kimche, ''The Times'', 15 March 1994.</ref>
-He covered the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and established good relations with [[David Ben-Gurion]].<ref name="TimesObit">Jon Kimche, ''The Times'', 15 March 1994.</ref>
+In a letter of 10 January 1947, to the DSO Palestine, [[MI5]] head Sir [[Percy Sillitoe]] reported on the activities of [[Teddy Kollek]] in London, stating "One of his closest contacts is [[Jon Kimche|John Kimche]]."<ref name="KV2s2262">National Archives KV 2/2262.</ref>
 He wrote the book ''Seven Fallen Pillars'' (1950) on British policy in Palestine. Together with his brother David, he wrote ''The Secret Roads'' (1956), on illegal immigration to Palestine and ''Both Sides Of The Hill'' (1960), on Israeli and Arab attitudes in the 1948 war and after.<ref name="GuardianObit">Joseph Finklestone, SCOOPING THE MIDDLE EAST; Obituary: Jon Kimche, ''Guardian'', 19 March 1994.</ref><ref name="TimesObit">Jon Kimche, ''The Times'', 15 March 1994.</ref>

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 ==Jewish Observer==
-From 1952 to 1967, he was editor of the ''[[Jewish Observer and Middle East Review]]''.<ref name="GuardianObit">Joseph Finklestone, SCOOPING THE MIDDLE EAST; Obituary: Jon Kimche, ''Guardian'', 19 March 1994.</ref>
+From 1952 to 1967, he was editor of the ''[[Jewish Observer and Middle East Review]]'', the official publication of the [[Zionist Federation]].<ref name="GuardianObit">Joseph Finklestone, SCOOPING THE MIDDLE EAST; Obituary: Jon Kimche, ''Guardian'', 19 March 1994.</ref>
 In March 1967, Kimche's publishers, the board of directors of the Zionist Review dismissed him after a dispute in which he accused their major stockholder, the Zionist Federation of Britain of censorship of material in the magazine. The Zionist Federation is the principal stockholder in the Zionist Review, publisher of the Observer.

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−	[[File:Jon Kimche Canadian Jewish Chronicle 8 Sept 1967.jpg\|right\|thumb\|~~300px~~\|[[Jon Kimche]] in the [[Canadian Jewish Chronicle Review]], on his appointment as correspondent for that paper. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=883&dat=19670908&id=q6haAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wUsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3933,5963950 Jon Kimche joins Chronicle Review] 8 September 1967, p. 1.]]	+	[[File:Jon Kimche Canadian Jewish Chronicle 8 Sept 1967.jpg\|right\|thumb\|200px\|[[Jon Kimche]] in the [[Canadian Jewish Chronicle Review]], on his appointment as correspondent for that paper. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=883&dat=19670908&id=q6haAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wUsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3933,5963950 Jon Kimche joins Chronicle Review] 8 September 1967, p. 1.]]

	[[Jon Kimche]] (1909) was a Swiss-born British journalist.<ref name="TimesObit">Jon Kimche, ''The Times'', 15 March 1994.</ref>		[[Jon Kimche]] (1909) was a Swiss-born British journalist.<ref name="TimesObit">Jon Kimche, ''The Times'', 15 March 1994.</ref>