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Yedioth Ahronoth ( lit. Latest News) is a daily newspaper published in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. Since the 1970s, it has been the most widely circulated paper in Israel.

paper is currently published in tabloid
Tabloid

A tabloid is an industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread; to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest stories and entertainment, often distributed free of charge ; or to a newspaper that tends to emphasize sensationalism crime stories, gossip columns repeating scandalous innuend...
 format and style, and whilst not as sensationalist as some tabloids in other countries, it emphasises "drama and human interest over sophisticated analysis". Nevertheless, it has been described as "undoubtedly the country's number-one paper".






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Yedioth Ahronoth ( lit. Latest News) is a daily newspaper published in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. Since the 1970s, it has been the most widely circulated paper in Israel.

History

The paper is currently published in tabloid
Tabloid

A tabloid is an industry term which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread; to a weekly or semi-weekly alternative newspaper that focuses on local-interest stories and entertainment, often distributed free of charge ; or to a newspaper that tends to emphasize sensationalism crime stories, gossip columns repeating scandalous innuend...
 format and style, and whilst not as sensationalist as some tabloids in other countries, it emphasises "drama and human interest over sophisticated analysis". Nevertheless, it has been described as "undoubtedly the country's number-one paper". The paper gives a wide range of views and space for both political left and right.

One of the first privately owned Israeli newspapers, it was founded in 1939 by Nachum Komarov and was shortly after bought by Yehuda Mozes. Its first managing editor was Noah Mozes, Yehuda Mozes' son.

In 1948, a large group of journalists and staff members led by Azriel Carlebach
Azriel Carlebach

Dr. Ezriel Carlebach was a journalist and editorial writer during the period of Yishuv in British Mandate of Palestine and during the early days of the state of Israel....
, who was Editor at the time, left to form another newspaper Yedioth Maariv, later known as Maariv
Maariv

Maariv is a popular Middle-market_newspaper daily newspaper published in Israel, second in sales after the Yedioth Ahronoth tabloid. Apart from the daily newspaper and its supplements, the media group has a chain of local newspapers with a national scale distribution, a magazines division, and a semi-independent website called NRG , wh...
. Carlebach was replaced with Herzl Rosenblum
Herzl Rosenblum

Dr Herzl Rosenblum was an Israeli journalist and politician. A signatory of the Declaration of Independence , he worked as editor of Yedioth Ahronoth for more than 35 years....
. This began a still on-going battle for circulation and prestige between the rival newspapers, which peaked during the 1990s when both papers were discovered to have bugged one another's phones.

Today, the paper is headed by Noah Mozes's son, Arnon Mozes. For many years it was edited by Herzl Rosenblum's son, Moshe Vardi, who was replaced in 2005 by Rafi Ginat.

It is owned by the Yedioth Ahronoth Group, which also owns stocks in several Israeli companies, such as "Channel 2
Channel 2 (Israel)

Channel 2 is an Israelis commercial broadcasting television channel that started broadcasting in November 4, 1993 under the Second Israeli Broadcasting Authority....
", a commercial television channel; "Hot
Xtra HOT

'Xtra Hot' is an Israeli cable television channel that is part of the Hot and started operation in 2005. It broadcasts series and talk shows.The channel broadcasts with Hebrew or Russian subtitles a range of popular American shows such as Lost , 24 , Californication , CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , Veronica Mars, Rome , ...
", the Cable TV company; "Yedioth Tikshoret", a group of weekly local newspapers; "Vesti
Vesti

Vesti is a VGTRK-owned international Russian-language news channel from Russia. It covers major national and international events with a Russian perspective and a focus on domestic issues....
", a Russian language
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
 newspaper; magazines; such as the weekly TV guide magazine Pnai Plus
Pnai Plus

Pnai Plus is an Israeli magazine published weekly, which covers the world of entertainment and television worldwide and is a local Broadcast programming....
 and weekly women's magazine La'Isha, and other non-media companies. Shilo De-Beer was promoted to editor in April 2007.

Media bias accusations

Yedioth Ahronoth, along with other Israeli
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 media outlets, has been criticized for practicing alleged self-censorship and muzzling dissent in its coverage of the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict
2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict

The 2008?2009 Israel?Gaza conflict, part of the ongoing Israeli?Palestinian conflict, started when Israel launched a military campaign in the Gaza Strip on December 27 2008, codenamed Operation Cast Lead ....
, which has been described by critics as overly patriotic and biased against Hamas
Hamas

Hamas is an Islamic Palestine socio-political organization which includes a paramilitary force, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Since June 2007, Hamas has governed the Gaza Strip portion of the Palestinian Territories....
. Keshev, an Israeli media watchdog group, in particular cited a Yedioth Ahronoth headline, "Fighting Back," describing Israeli airstrikes against Hamas.

See also

  • List of Israeli newspapers
  • Ynet
    Ynet

    Ynet is one of the most popular Israeli News site. While it is owned and operated by Yediot Ahronot, the country's leading daily newspaper, most of the content is original work published on the website only, written by a semi-independent staff....
  • Ynetnews
    Ynetnews

    Ynetnews is an English language Israel news and content website operated by Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel?s most-read newspaper, and the Hebrew Israel news portal, Ynet....


External links

  • Semi-independent internet version
  • Semi-independent internet version
  • - Forward
    The Forward

    The Forward is a Jewish-American weekly newspaper published in New York City.As of 2008, the Forward is published as a weekly news magazine in separate Yiddish and English language editions....