BREAKING NEWS

Writer Joel Bainerman to be buried Tuesday

Researcher and writer Joel Bainerman, a former economics editor of The Jerusalem Post, died on Saturday.  His funeral will take place at 10 a.m. on Tuesday in Zichron Ya’akov.
Born in Toronto in 1957, Bainerman wrote extensively about Israel and the Middle East since he made aliya in 1983, working at the Post in the late 1980s. He was also business editor of the Israel Economist, edited two monthly economic newsletters and authored two books, Crimes of a President: New Revelations on the Conspiracy and Cover Up in the Bush and Reagan Administrations (1992) and Inside the Covert Operations of the CIA & Israel’s Mossad (1994).