Haaretz

Haaretz ((הארץ, country) is one of the three plus national famous daily newspapers in Israel. It belongs to the Schocken family. Its current owner is Amos Schocken, pertaining to the third generation.

He is the third daily newspaper of Israel, far behind Maariv and Yediot Aharonot , but its influence is in fact more important than its diffusion.

History

Haaretz was created in 1919 with Jerusalem, in a Palestine then under British mandate. The leading line of the newspaper is specified under the cane of Gershom Schocken, editor as a chief of 1939 to 1990. It was replaced by Hanoch Marmari and Yoël Esteron, themselves replaced in 2004 per David Landau and Tami Litani.

Leading line

Haaretz is the torch of the Israeli left. This political positioning very clearly, like its very traditional graphic charter, make that it is often compared wrongly or rightly with newspapers like the French daily newspaper Le Monde , or the International Herald Tribune .

Haaretz also went to the point of the engagements in favor of the withdrawal of the Occupied territories, as well as defense of the rights of the Palestinians. It was one of most enthusiastic the supporters Accords of Oslo.

Strongly anticlerical, it does not hesitate to pose the religious problems in terms of sociétaux problems, contributing to religious cleavage/not-monk in Israel.

Among the large feathers of this daily newspaper, let us quote:

Yoël Marcus,
Zeev Schiff, famous for its analyzes on the questions military and related to safety,
Gideon Levy,
Danny Rubinstein,
Amir Oren,
Amira Hass, one of rare the reporters Israeli having established residence in the Territories under Palestinian authority, in fact with Ramallah.

The group

The pulling of Haaretz borders the 75.000 specimens in week, and 95.000 Friday. An english language version is sold in supplement of the International Herald Tribune .

Like all the famous daily newspapers, it offers each day a series of supplements on the literature, the economy, art of living or the sport. It also lays out, like all the Israeli famous daily newspapers, of a supplement of Friday, called Mossaf Haaretz . An economic supplement called TheMarker also exists.

An online edition exists, as well in English as in Hebrew. However, the english language version does not take again the entirety of the articles published in Hebrew.

The group includes/understands also a printing works.

The whole of the group includes/understands fifteen local titles. According to the daily newspaper, the group is estimated at 100 million US dollars “by taking account of several million debts” .

In August 2006, the newspaper announced an acquisition of a holding by the German group Springer to a total value of 25%. This arrival should provide him financial means to take a participation of 44,5%, that is to say 33 million dollars, in Bezeq, most popular Internet site in Israel.

Bonds

Haaretz online (English)
Haaretz online (Hebrew)

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