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44-594: In March 2016, The Jewish Week announced its partnership with the online newspaper The Times of Israel . Later in 2016, The Jewish Week acquired the New Jersey Jewish News , which had been published by the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ and had a circulation of 32,000. In July 2020, The Jewish Week suspended publication of its weekly print publication, and in January 2021

88-470: A Times of Israel co-founder gave $ 1.5 million in 2012 to CAMERA , a right-wing group that criticises news outlets over their coverage of Israel. Haaretz stated that Times of Israel owner Seth Klarman "supports other conservative, media-related organizations and groups that seek to counter anti-Israel bias or have a right-wing agenda". Times of Israel has offered a third-party blogging platform since 2012 which allows writers who are not affiliated with

132-1095: A Times of Israel staff written editorial. Times of Israel apparently removed the article. Times of Israel amends the following to every blog post by 3rd party users: "Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse." In addition to written journalism, The Times of Israel produces and publishes three podcasts; it also produces video content: The Times of Israel competes for readership with The Jerusalem Post , Arutz Sheva ' s Israel National News , Haaretz daily English edition, Israel Hayom , and The Forward . [REDACTED] Media related to The Times of Israel at Wikimedia Commons Haaretz Haaretz ( Hebrew : הָאָרֶץ lit.   ' The Land [of Israel] ' , originally Ḥadshot Haaretz – Hebrew : חַדְשׁוֹת הָאָרֶץ , IPA: [χadˈʃot haˈʔaʁets] lit.   ' News of

176-504: 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

220-764: 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

264-585: 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

308-563: A youth movement leader and high school principal, Baruch Lanner . The story was criticized by some in the Orthodox community for being " malicious gossip ". Lanner and other officials of the Orthodox Group were forced to resign. Lanner was convicted of child sexual abuse in 2002. This article about a New York newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Times of Israel The Times of Israel

352-465: 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 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

396-754: Is an Israeli multi-language online newspaper that was launched in 2012. It was co-founded by Israeli journalist David Horovitz , who is also the founding editor, and American billionaire investor Seth Klarman . Based in Jerusalem , it "documents developments in Israel, the Middle East and around the Jewish world ." Along with its original English site, The Times of Israel publishes in Hebrew (via its own edition, Zman Yisrael ), Arabic , French , and Persian . In addition to publishing news reports and analysis,

440-593: Is considered the most influential and respected for both its news coverage and its commentary." Haaretz was first published in 1918 as 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

484-400: 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,

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528-555: Is intended to be independent, without any political leanings. The paper's editorial board is composed of former Jerusalem Report editor Sharon Ashley, Irwin Cotler , Efraim Halevy , Saul Singer , and Ehud Yaari . Yehuda Avner was a member of the editorial board until his death in March 2015. Horovitz said in 2012: "We are independent ; we're not attached or affiliated with any political party." However, Haaretz reported that

572-677: Is likely linked to the increase in demand for news about the Middle East following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war on 7 October 2023. Since 2016, The Times of Israel has hosted the websites of Jewish newspapers in several countries, known as "local partners". In March 2016, it began hosting New York's The Jewish Week . It also hosts Britain's Jewish News , the New Jersey Jewish Standard , The Atlanta Jewish Times , and Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle . In October 2019, The Australian Jewish News became

616-515: The Arabic and French editions combine translations of English content with original material in their respective languages, and also host a blog platform. In announcing the Arabic edition, Horovitz suggested, The Times of Israel may have created the first Arabic blog platform that "draw[s] articles from across the spectrum of opinion. We're inviting those of our Arabic readers with something of value that they want to say to blog on our pages, respecting

660-780: The Deadline Club, the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists , for its series on the battle to improve secular education in chasidic schools. The series was done in partnership with WNYC. In 2000, Rosenblatt and the newspaper won the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism from the Journalism Center on Children & Families for the story "Stolen Innocence", an investigative report that uncovered allegations of decades of child abuse by

704-432: The Israeli government ordered a boycott of Haaretz by government officials and anyone working for 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

748-565: 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 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

792-492: The Land"). Later, the name was shortened to Haaretz . The literary section of 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

836-664: The Middle East and the Jewish world." In 2020, Reuters reported that The Times of Israel , along with The Jerusalem Post , Algemeiner , and Arutz Sheva , published op-eds sent to them by someone using a falsified identity. The op-eds were removed as soon as the problem was discovered. Opinion editor Miriam Herschlag said that she regretted the scam because it distorted the public discourse and might lead to "barriers that prevent new voices from being heard". Most sources describe The Times of Israel as " centrist ". According to editor David Horovitz , The Times of Israel

880-580: 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,

924-518: 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

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968-532: The Schocken family reach 75% ownership, with the remaining 25% owned by Leonid Nevzlin. In October 2012, 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,

1012-472: 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

1056-422: The chief editor in 1939 and held that position until his death in 1990. The Schocken family were 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 ,

1100-517: 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, the BBC said that Haaretz takes

1144-799: 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

1188-510: The endorsed original work of Times of Israel, leading to accusations about the newspapers' bias For example, on May 18, 2023, a third party user of the site's blog platform named Jeffrey Camras published an op-ed titled "Moving Forward on Palestine". Camras proposed that "in order to right a wrong, in order to make peace and move forward, Palestine must be obliterated." Although Camras was not affiliated with Times of Israel, sites like Palestine Chronicle and others presented his article as if it were

1232-531: The news site to publish online. The articles on this platform are clearly marked as such, and Times of Israel staff does not oversee or edit the content from outside users published on the blogging platform. Times of Israel at times has removed content that has violated the site's policies. This platform has occasionally brought about controversy for the newspaper with inflammatory and controversial blog pieces that were later removed. These pieces written by 3rd party users have often been misrepresented as or confused for

1276-544: 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,

1320-767: 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

1364-655: 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

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1408-476: The paper had on average over 9 million unique users each month and over 35 million monthly page views. It also maintains a blog platform, on which some 9,000 bloggers post. In November 2023, the site saw web visits increase 604% year-on-year to 64.2 million and entered the Press Gazette's top-50 ranking for the first time in 42nd place, according to digital intelligence platform, Similarweb. The increase

1452-480: The parameters of legitimate debate, joining our marketplace of ideas." "[T]o avoid the kind of anonymous comments that can reduce discussion to toxic lows", comments on news articles and features in all of the site's editions can only be posted by readers identified through their Facebook profiles or equivalent. In February 2014, two years after its launch, The Times of Israel claimed a readership of 2 million. In 2017, readership increased to 3.5 million. By 2021,

1496-710: The popular Israeli television series Fauda  – joined as its Middle East analyst. Amanda Borschel-Dan, who was the Magazine Editor of The Jerusalem Post , is currently The Times of Israel's Deputy Editor, responsible for the Jewish world and archaeology. She also hosts the paper's weekly podcast. The Times of Israel launched its Arabic edition, edited by Suha Halifa, on 4 February 2014; its French edition, edited by Stephanie Bitan, on 25 February 2014; and its Persian edition, edited by Avi Davidi, on 7 October 2015. It launched its Hebrew site, Zman Yisael , on 1 May 2019, edited by Biranit Goren. Both

1540-539: The post for 15 years. The Tel Aviv municipality granted 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

1584-537: The seventh local partner. On 2 November 2017, hackers in Turkey took down the website of The Times of Israel for three hours, replacing the homepage with anti-Israel propaganda. Responding to the attack, Horovitz said: "We constantly work to improve security on the site, which is subjected to relentless attacks by hackers. How unfortunate, and how badly it reflects on them that the hackers seek to prevent people from reading responsible, independent journalism on Israel,

1628-426: The website hosts a multi-author blog platform. In February 2014, two years after its launch, The Times of Israel claimed a readership of two million. In 2017, readership increased to 3.5 million unique monthly users. By 2021, the paper had on average over nine million unique users each month and over 35 million monthly page views, while the paper's blog platform had 9,000 active bloggers. The Times of Israel

1672-524: 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 the Supreme Court, very critical of Netanyahu's government". Others describe it alternatively as liberal , centre-left , left-wing , and

1716-528: Was acquired by 70 Faces Media , publisher of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and other Jewish brands. Each year The Jewish Week published "36 Under 36," honoring younger New Yorkers making a difference in Jewish philanthropy, education, the arts, religion and social action. Beginning in 2022, the list was published as “36 to Watch,” without an age limit for awardees. Phillip Ritzenberg was publisher and editor until 1993. Gary Rosenblatt

1760-733: Was considered the most sophisticated of the Yishuv 's dailies. Salman Schocken , 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

1804-575: Was defined by Gershom Schocken , who was editor-in-chief from 1939 to 1990. Schocken 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

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1848-595: Was launched in February 2012. Its co-founders are journalist David Horovitz , and American billionaire Seth Klarman , founder of the Baupost Group and chairman of The David Project . Klarman is the chairman of the website. Several Times of Israel editors had previously worked for the Haaretz English edition, including Joshua Davidovich and Raphael Ahren, and former Haaretz Arab affairs correspondent Avi Issacharoff  – co-creator of

1892-527: Was member of the Nazi Party and his publishing house promoted Nazi ideology. On 12 June 2011, it 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

1936-554: Was the editor and publisher from 1993 to 2019. Andrew Silow-Carroll took over in September 2019. Rosenblatt served as editor at large and continued to write for the paper and be involved in several of its educational projects. The Jewish Week won two first-place awards from the American Jewish Press Association in 2021. In 2016, The Jewish Week became a finalist for awards in two categories by

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