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38-659: The Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) was founded in 1991 as a "center of research and action dedicated to strengthening the foundations of Israeli democracy." Haaretz described IDI as a "pro-democracy think tank," while the IDI has traditionally coined itself as a "do tank". The IDI is generally portrayed as the leftist counterweight to the Kohelet Policy Forum . The IDI receives funding from Bernard Marcus . IDI's offices are located in Jerusalem. In November 2022,

76-695: A Jewish businessman who left Germany in 1934 after the Nazis had come to power, bought the paper in December 1935. Schocken was active in Brit Shalom , also known as the Jewish–Palestinian Peace Alliance, a body supporting co-existence between Jews and Arabs which was sympathetic to a homeland for both peoples. His son, Gershom Schocken , became the chief editor in 1939 and held that position until his death in 1990. The Schocken family were

114-418: A government-funded body, and banned government advertising with the newspaper. According to The Guardian , Haaretz "had published a series of investigations of wrongdoing or abuses by senior officials and the armed forces , and has long been in the crosshairs of the current government." The newspaper's editorial policy was defined by Gershom Schocken , who was editor-in-chief from 1939 to 1990. Schocken

152-590: A huge success, with the party winning 20 seats, making it the second largest in the Knesset . The party was enlarged soon after the elections when the Sephardim and Oriental Communities party and the Yemenite Association merged into it (though the one Yemenite Association MK left the party again before the end of the session). Although it was not included in the coalition for the third government, it

190-504: A lot of the people at Haaretz , and many of its positions, but the cartoonish anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism can be grating." In 2022, a TGI survey found that Haaretz was the newspaper with the third largest readership in Israel, with an exposure rate of 4.7%, below Israel Hayom 's rate of 31% and Yedioth Ahronoth 's 23.9%. Haaretz uses smaller headlines and print than other mass circulation papers in Israel . Less space

228-584: A newspaper sponsored by the British military government in Palestine . In 1919, it was taken over by a group of socialist-oriented Zionists , mainly from Russia . The newspaper was established on 18 June 1919 by a group of businessmen including the philanthropist Isaac Leib Goldberg , initially called Hadashot Ha'aretz ("News of the Land"). Later, the name was shortened to Haaretz . The literary section of

266-585: A staff writer that said the Israeli religious right was worse than Hezbollah . Condemnation followed, including from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , President Reuven Rivlin , and other government ministers and MPs , as well as from Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog . On 31 October 2024, Haaretz 's publisher Amos Schocken made remarks during a speech at a Haaretz conference in London criticising

304-468: A union strike mobilized to protest planned layoffs by the Haaretz management, causing a one-day interruption of Haaretz and its TheMarker business supplement. According to Israel Radio , it was the first time since 1965 that a newspaper did not go to press on account of a strike. On 24 November 2024, the Israeli government ordered a boycott of Haaretz by government officials and anyone working for

342-400: Is devoted to pictures, and more to political analysis . Opinion columns are generally written by regular commentators rather than guest writers. Its editorial pages are considered influential among government leaders. Apart from the news, Haaretz publishes feature articles on social and environmental issues, as well as book reviews, investigative reporting, and political commentary. In 2008,

380-563: Is published in Hebrew and English in the Berliner format, and is also available online. In North America , it is published as a weekly newspaper , combining articles from the Friday edition with a roundup from the rest of the week. Haaretz is Israel's newspaper of record . It is known for its left-wing and liberal stances on domestic and foreign issues. As of 2022, Haaretz has

418-848: The BBC said that Haaretz takes a moderate stance on foreign policy and security. David Remnick in The New Yorker described Haaretz as "easily the most liberal newspaper in Israel", its ideology as left-wing and its temper as "insistently oppositional". According to Ira Sharkansky , Haaretz ' s op-ed pages are open to a variety of opinions. J. J. Goldberg , the editor of the American The Jewish Daily Forward , describes Haaretz as "Israel's most vehemently anti- settlement daily paper". Stephen Glain of The Nation described Haaretz as "Israel's liberal beacon", citing its editorials voicing opposition to

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456-584: The Histadrut ). The "General Zionists A" favored the economic policies of Labour Zionism and were supportive of Chaim Weizmann 's compromising approach to relations with the British. The "General Zionists B" were skeptical of socialism and more outspoken against British policy in Palestine. After the independence of the State of Israel, the gap between the two groups widened. The General Zionists A helped form

494-697: The Progressive Party , which won five seats in 1949 Knesset elections and entered the Mapai-led governing coalition. The General Zionists B, running as the General Zionists, won seven seats and chose to remain in the opposition. In the years following the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, the General Zionists moved towards the right in opposition to the hegemony of Mapai and other Labour Zionist movements in Israeli politics. The General Zionist party supported private enterprise,

532-422: The General Zionists became identified with European liberal and middle class beliefs in private property and capitalism . In 1929, the General Zionists established a world organization, holding their first conference in 1931. At this conference, rifts opened up between the conservative right wing and those who held more moderate views. They were divided over social issues, economics and labour issues (e.g.

570-612: The IDI began a public campaign about the Israeli judicial reform . Karnit Flug , the institute's vice president of research, was one of the first authoritative voices warning about the reform's potential impact on the Israeli economy. It aims to bolster the values and institutions of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. The non-partisan think tank was awarded the Israel Prize for by the State of Israel . In 2014, Yohanan Plesner

608-580: The Netanyahu government for allegedly imposing an apartheid regime on the Palestinian population and referring to "Palestinian freedom fighters that Israel calls terrorists." In response, the Israeli interior , education , diaspora ministries severed ties with Haaretz while the Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi advocated a boycott of the newspaper covering all government bodies and employees. By 4 November,

646-518: The Palestinian territories and elsewhere, and blogs covering a range of political standpoints and opinions. The two sites fall under the supervision of Lior Kodner, the head of digital media for the Haaretz Group. Individually, Simon Spungin is the editor of Haaretz.com (English) and Avi Scharf is the editor of Haaretz.co.il (Hebrew). The Haaretz building is on Schocken Street in south Tel Aviv . The former Haaretz building of 1932–1973

684-644: The Supreme Court, very critical of Netanyahu's government". Others describe it alternatively as liberal , centre-left , left-wing , and the country's only major left-leaning newspaper. The paper opposes retaining Israeli control over the Palestinian territories and consistently supports peace initiatives. The Haaretz editorial line is supportive of weaker elements in Israeli society, such as sex workers, foreign laborers, Israeli Arabs , Ethiopian immigrants , and Russian immigrants . In 2006,

722-472: The United States, as a newspaper of record . In 2007, Shmuel Rosner , Haaretz 's former U.S. correspondent, told The Nation , "people who read it are better educated and more sophisticated than most, but the rest of the country doesn't know it exists." According to Hanoch Marmari, a former Haaretz editor, the newspaper has lost its political influence in Israel because it became "detached" from

760-799: The country's political life. Andrea Levin , executive director of the pro-Israel Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), said Haaretz was doing "damage to the truth" and sometimes making serious factual errors without correcting them. According to The Jerusalem Post , Haaretz editor-in-chief David Landau said at the 2007 Limmud conference in Moscow that he had told his staff not to report on criminal investigations against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in order to promote Sharon's 2004–2005 Gaza disengagement plan . In April 2017, Haaretz published an op-ed by

798-550: The leadership of Chaim Weizmann and their views were largely colored by central European culture. The party was considered to have both conservative and liberal wings, and is one of the ancestors of the modern-day Likud . The term "General Zionism" initially referred to the beliefs of the majority of members of the Zionist Organization (ZO) who had not joined a specific faction or party and belonged to their countrywide Zionist organizations only. The term

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836-490: The newspaper had received hundreds of cancellation and subscription termination requests, and a decline in advertising revenue. Several ministries had requested to cancel their subscriptions, with the Israeli foreign ministry cancelling 90 subscriptions. Following significant criticism, Schocken retracted his remarks. Haaretz operates both Hebrew and English language websites. The two sites offer up-to-the-minute breaking news, live Q&A sessions with newsmakers from Israel,

874-767: The newspaper itself reported a paid subscribership of 65,000, daily sales of 72,000 copies, and 100,000 on weekends. The English edition has a subscriber base of 15,000. Despite its historically relatively low circulation in Israel, Haaretz has for many years been described as Israel's most influential daily newspaper. In 2006, it exposed a scandal regarding professional and ethical standards at Israeli hospitals. Its readership includes members of Israel's intelligentsia and members of its political and economic elites. In 1999, surveys showed that Haaretz readership had above-average education, income, and wealth, and that most were Ashkenazi Jews . Some have said that Haaretz functions in Israel much as The New York Times does in

912-655: The occupation, the discriminatory treatment of Arab citizens, and the mindset that led to the Second Lebanon War . A 2003 study in The International Journal of Press/Politics concluded that Haaretz ' s reporting of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict was more favorable to Israelis than to Palestinians but less so than that of The New York Times . In 2016, Jeffrey Goldberg , the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic , wrote: "I like

950-525: The paper attracted leading Hebrew writers of the time. The newspaper was initially published in Jerusalem . From 1919 to 1922, the paper was headed by a succession of editors, among them Leib Yaffe . It was closed briefly due to a budgetary shortfall and reopened in Tel Aviv at the beginning of 1923 under the editorship of Moshe Glickson, who held the post for 15 years. The Tel Aviv municipality granted

988-553: The paper financial support by paying in advance for future advertisements. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Haaretz ' s liberal viewpoint was to some degree associated with the General Zionist "A" faction, which later helped form the Progressive Party , though it was nonpartisan and careful not to espouse any specific party line. It was considered the most sophisticated of the Yishuv 's dailies. Salman Schocken ,

1026-482: The sole owners of the Haaretz Group until August 2006, when they sold a 25% stake to German publisher M. DuMont Schauberg . The deal was negotiated with the help of the former Israeli ambassador to Germany, Avi Primor . This deal was seen as controversial in Israel as DuMont Schauberg's father, Kurt Neven DuMont , was member of the Nazi Party and his publishing house promoted Nazi ideology. On 12 June 2011, it

1064-481: The suspension of state support to collective institutions, and the termination of the Histadrut 's control of the economy. However, it favored leaving the Histadrut with state control over several aspects of economy and welfare. It also supported a unified system of education (as it contributed to the passage of the 1953 State Education Law) and a written constitution to enshrine democratic freedom and civil rights. It

1102-477: The third Knesset's coalition governments. A further slump to eight seats in the 1959 elections and exclusion from the coalition made the party rethink its strategy. Eventually the party decided to merge with the 6-seat Progressive Party to form the Liberal Party . Nevertheless, the party helped bring down the government in 1961 when it and Herut tabled a motion of no confidence in the government over

1140-454: The third-largest circulation in Israel. It is widely read by international observers, especially in its English edition, and discussed in the international press. According to the Center for Research Libraries , among Israel's daily newspapers, " Haaretz is considered the most influential and respected for both its news coverage and its commentary." Haaretz was first published in 1918 as

1178-555: Was secularist , though not as vocally so as the Progressive Party. In 1936 the General Zionists established a daily newspaper, HaBoker , which was edited for the first ten years of its existence by Peretz Bernstein . It ceased publication in 1965. The General Zionists entered the elections for the first Knesset in 1949. They won 5.2% of the vote and seven seats, and were not included in either of David Ben-Gurion 's coalition governments. The 1951 elections were

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1216-531: Was announced that Russian-Israeli businessman Leonid Nevzlin had purchased a 20% stake in the Haaretz Group, buying 15% from the family and 5% from M. DuMont Schauberg. In December 2019, members of the Schocken family bought all of the Haaretz stock belonging to M. DuMont Schauberg. The deal saw the Schocken family reach 75% ownership, with the remaining 25% owned by Leonid Nevzlin. In October 2012,

1254-647: Was appointed president. In 2018, their vice president of research Yuval Shany was chosen to head the United Nations Human Rights Committee . Until 2015, the IDI published HaAyin HaShevi'it ( The Seventh Eye ). In 2009, IDI was awarded the Israel Prize for its "lifetime achievement and special contribution to society and the State of Israel. In the University of Pennsylvania 's 2014 Global Go To Think Tanks Report , it

1292-524: Was brought into the fourth government after Ben-Gurion had sacked the Ultra-orthodox parties, Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael , over the religious education dispute that had brought down the previous government. It was also included in Moshe Sharett 's fifth government, but not the sixth. In the 1955 elections the party slumped to 13 seats, and were not included in either of

1330-418: Was designed by architect Joseph Berlin . It was demolished in the early 1990s, with only part of the facade preserved and integrated into the new building at 56, Maza Street. General Zionist The General Zionists ( Hebrew : הַצִיּוֹנִים הַכְּלָלִיים , romanized :  HaTzionim HaKlaliym ) were a centrist Zionist movement and a political party in Israel . The General Zionists supported

1368-738: Was first used at the 1907 Zionist Congress to describe the delegates who were affiliated with neither Labor Zionism nor religious Zionism . In 1922, various non-aligned groups and individuals established the Organization of General Zionists as a non-ideological party within the Zionist Organization (later the World Zionist Organization) at a time when the Zionist movement was becoming polarized between Labour Zionists and Revisionist Zionism . Eventually

1406-523: Was ranked the 23rd best think tank in the Middle East and North Africa. Haaretz Haaretz ( Hebrew : הָאָרֶץ lit.   ' The Land [of Israel] ' , originally Ḥadshot Haaretz – Hebrew : חַדְשׁוֹת הָאָרֶץ , IPA: [χadˈʃot haˈʔaʁets] lit.   ' News of the Land [of Israel] ' ) is an Israeli newspaper . It was founded in 1918, making it the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel. The paper

1444-803: Was succeeded as editor-in-chief by Hanoch Marmari. In 2004 David Landau replaced Marmari and was succeeded by Dov Alfon in 2008. The current editor-in-chief of the newspaper is Aluf Benn , who replaced Alfon in August 2011. Charlotte Halle became editor of the English print edition in February 2008. Walter Gross was a member of the governing editorial board and a columnist with the paper from 1951 to 1995. Haaretz describes itself as having "a broadly liberal outlook both on domestic issues and on international affairs", and has been summarized as being "liberal on security, civil rights and economy, supportive of

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