Haaretz
Haaretz (הארץ, The Land) is an Israeli newspaper, founded in 1919. It is published in Hebrew, with an abridged English edition published as an annex to the International Herald Tribune edition distributed in Israel. Hebrew and English editions also appear on the Internet.
The newspaper's editorial line was defined by Gershom Schocken, who was editor-in-chief between 1939 and 1990. Haaretz is owned by the Schocken family. The current editor and managing editor are (resp.) David Landau and Tami Litani, who replaced Hanoch Marmari and Yoel Esteron in April 2004.
Unlike the Maariv and Yediot Aharonot dailies, but like the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz has clear political views. Its views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict tend to be leftist and represent the political agenda of Meretz (Israeli Social Democratic Left party) and the dovish part of the Israeli Labor Party. The position of the newspaper in Israel's religious spectrum is decidedly secular. Although space is often given to issues of social justice (exemplified by Ruth Sinai's frequent columns on this topic), the paper's editorial line on economical issues is primarily classical-liberal in the spirit of The Economist: it supports privatization, free-trade, sensible welfare reforms, lower taxes and strict fiscal practices.
Notable reporters and publicists in Haaretz:
- Amira Hass - Israeli journalist, living in Ramallah, mainly reports on Palestinian issues, won many prizes abroad
- Ari Shavit - journalist, publicist
- Amos Harel - military reporter
- Amir Oren - military reporter
- Baruch Kara - internal politics reporter
- Yossi Sarid - left wing politician, publicist
- Yoel Markus - publicist
- Zeev Schiff - military and security affairs commentator
- Nehamia Shtrasler - economy reporter, publicist
- Gideon Levi - Palestinian affairs journalist
- Danny Rubinstein - political affairs journalist
- Avi Ratzon - sports editor, sport publicist, soccer commantator
- Ron Kaufman, Aviv Lavi - basketball commantators
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