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Article: Meir Ronnen, Israeli artist, named 'Jerusalem Post,' 83
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- Washington Jewish Week
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- September 10, 2009
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Meir "Mike" Ronnen, the sharp-witted Jerusalem Post art critic and cartoonist credited with coining the newspaper's name, died Aug. 30 at Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center at the age of 83.
Ronnen, who was born in Melbourne, Australia, made aliyah via Egypt in 1949, and almost immediately got a job at what was then called The Palestine Post.
He was hired by managing editor Ted Lurie and was asked by founding editor Gershon Agron to start the overseas edition, now known as The International Jerusalem Post.
A Renaissance man with a broad general knowledge, Ronnen worked at the Post for most of the next six decades, becoming a well-respected art critic and satirist, and producing some of ...