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Haaretz
Israeli newspaper
- Hebrew:
- “The Land”
News •
Israel Boycotts Haaretz Newspaper, Raising Press Freedom Concerns
• Nov. 29, 2024, 5:41 AM ET (Frontline Magazine)
Israel's media crackdown is bad news for press freedom
• Nov. 28, 2024, 5:00 AM ET (Deutsche Welle)
Israeli government orders officials to boycott left-leaning paper Haaretz
• Nov. 25, 2024, 2:55 AM ET (The Guardian)
Haaretz, newspaper, published in Tel Aviv, that is Israel’s oldest daily, notable for its excellence in journalism. Haaretz is independent but widely seen in Israel as politically left-of-center. Haaretz was founded in Jerusalem in 1919 as an independent liberal paper in the tradition of Russian-Hebrew journalism and moved to Tel Aviv in 1923. Bought by Salman Schocken in 1937, the newspaper was edited and published by his son, Gershom, from 1939 until his death, in 1990. Gershom’s son Amos subsequently became the newspaper’s publisher. In 2011 Russian-born businessman Leonid Nevzlin acquired a stake in ownership, although the Schocken family continued ...(100 of 176 words)