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Israel Hayom
ישראל היום
File:Israel Hayom front page.png
Front page, 27 July 2016
Type Free daily newspaper
Format Tabloid
Publisher Miriam Adelson
Editor-in-chief Boaz Bismuth
Deputy editor Ariel Schmidberg
General manager Zippi Koren
News editor Baruch Ron
Sports editor Eli Sahar
Launched 30 July 2007; 16 years ago (2007-07-30)
Political alignment Right
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Headquarters 2 Ha-Shlosha St., Tel Aviv
Country Israel
Circulation 275,000 (as of 2017)[1]
Readership <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • 31%
  • (as of 2021)[2]
Sister newspapers Makor Rishon[3]
OCLC number 234764640
Website www.israelhayom.com
www.israelhayom.co.il
Free online archives digital-edition.israelhayom.co.il/Olive/APA/Israel/

Israel Hayom (Hebrew: יִשְׂרָאֵל הַיּוֹם‎, lit. 'Israel Today') is an Israeli national Hebrew-language free daily newspaper and news website. First published in 2007, Israel Hayom is Israel's most widely distributed newspaper.[4] Owned by the family of Sheldon Adelson, who was personal friend and benefactor of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Hayom has often been criticized for portraying Netanyahu in an overly positive light.[5] Israel Hayom is distributed for free around Israel.[6]

History

The Israel Hayom headquarters in Tel Aviv

Israel Hayom's print edition was launched on 30 July 2007 and competed directly with Israeli, another free daily. The same year, Maariv editor Dan Margalit left the newspaper to write for Israel Hayom. A weekend edition was launched in October 2009. In 2014, Israel Hayom bought Israeli media outlets Makor Rishon and nrg מעריב.[3]

In May 2014, the name מעריב (Maariv) had been removed from nrg log,[7] and it was rebranded as nrg. Following the acquisition an antitrust complaint had been failed against Israel Hayom, which resulted in a court order that requested to transfer the maariv domain name to Maariv weekly.[8] In 2017, nrg was renamed to nrg360, and on 10 January 2018 the website had been closed and all its content had been merged into the Makor Rishon website.

In 2014, it was believed that Sheldon Adelson invested in total at least $50 million in Israel Hayom.[9] Adelson's support of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led the latter's political opponents in the Knesset to sponsor a bill that would prevent the distribution of newspapers in Israel for free. Framed as a bill to prevent unfair competition and save the Israeli print newspaper industry, critics of the bill said it hurts free enterprise and is a thinly veiled attempt to target Adelson and his political causes, as Israel Hayom is Israel's only free-of-charge national newspaper. The bill passed the first reading in the Knesset, but not subsequent ones.[10] In 2016, Adelson's attorney announced that although it was commonly believed that Adelson owned the newspaper, it was owned by a relative of his.[11]

In January 2021, Saudi-American independent academic researcher, Najat Al-Saied, became the first person from the Arab states of the Persian Gulf to join Israel Hayom.[12]

Political leaning

According to a 2022 study, Israel Hayom benefitted Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party electorally.[13]

A 2008 study by Moran Rada published in The Seventh Eye showed that while competing newspapers' coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu was "not especially fair", Israel Hayom's coverage was biased in favor of Netanyahu in most editorial decisions, and that the paper chooses to play down events that do not help to promote a positive image for Netanyahu, while on the other hand touting and inflating events that help promote Netanyahu and the Likud.[14] Oren Persico reached the same conclusion after the 2009 Knesset elections, writing that throughout the campaign Israel Hayom published only one article critical of the Likud, and tens of articles critical of Kadima.[15]

A popular nickname of Israel Hayom is the "Bibiton", a portmanteau of Netanyahu's nickname "Bibi" with the Hebrew word for newspaper, iton.[5] While in the Prime Minister's office, Ehud Olmert criticized Israel Hayom.[16][17] Journalist Ben-Dror Yemini has described the paper as having "endless capital with a political agenda".[6]

In 2016, it formally endorsed the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.[18][19]

Connection to Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel Hayom is owned by the family of Benjamin Netanyahu's personal friend and benefactor Sheldon Adelson, and is often criticized by the political left for portraying Netanyahu in an overly positive light.

Former Prime Minister Netanyahu currently stands on trial in five cases of alleged corruption; one of the cases, case 2000, directly involves Israel Hayom. According to the investigations, as Prime Minister, Netanyahu held three meetings with Arnon Mozes, editor of Yedioth Ahronoth, the main competitor of Israel Hayom, during which Netanyahu offered limiting the circulation of Israel Hayom in exchange for Yedioth Ahronoth hiring journalists more favorable to Netanyahu.[20][21]

Market share

Israel Hayom readers in Jerusalem

Being distributed for free, Israel Hayom has an edge over other daily newspapers in Israel. In July 2010, Israel Hayom surpassed Yedioth Ahronoth in weekday exposure rate in the semi-annual Target Group Index (TGI) survey.[22]

As of 2021, Israel Hayom had a 31% weekday readership exposure, followed by Yedioth Ahronoth with 23.9%, Haaretz with 4.7% and Maariv with 3.5%.[23]

In January 2016, citing internal records from Israel Hayom, Haaretz revealed that between 2007 and 2014 the newspaper lost about 730 million shekels ($190 million), approximately equal to one shekel per copy printed.[24]

Employees

Senior management[25]
  • Asher Baharav – publisher.
  • Boaz Bismuth – editor-in-chief.
  • Zippi Koren – CEO.
  • Ariel Schmidberg – deputy editor.
  • Baruch Ron – deputy editor, news director.
  • Amir Finkelshtein – chief operating officer.
  • Eithan Segal – VP marketing.
  • Riki Roob – chief financial officer.
Staff[26]

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  • Shlomo Cohen – editorial cartoonist.
  • Gideon Alon – parliamentary correspondent.
  • Ran Reznick – health correspondent.
  • Dan Margalit – senior commentator.
  • Naama Lanski – magazine correspondent.
  • Eli Sahar – sports editor.
  • Shir Ziv – television critic.
  • Boaz Bismuth – foreign news editor, senior analyst.

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  • Shlomo Cesana – diplomatic correspondent.
  • Aviad Hacohen – legal affairs commentator.
  • Ronen Dorfan – sports commentator.
  • Yoav Kutner – music critic.
  • Lilach Shoval – military correspondent.
  • Mati Tuchfeld – political correspondent.
  • Shlomo Scharf – sports commentator.

See also

References

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