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What appears visually confusing ends up being morally unfathomable.
Its detractors, inevitably in a region of such angry divisions, decry the paper as far-left or even anti-Israel, but in fact it espouses a disappearing sort of Zionism, one intertwined with liberal values and freedom for all. But as the country continued its drift to the right, and as oppositions between Israelis and Palestinians hardened further, Haaretz has grown lonelier — and thus even more vital. This show opens with more than a dozen front pages of Haaretz, in both its Hebrew and newer English editions, and the photographs above the fold limn a country and region passing through massive upheaval.
Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated.
Bombs fall on Hebron. Bush comes to town. The front page, as the second intifada intensifies and as the Israeli government moves further and further to the right, becomes a daily showcase of competing fundamentalisms and their horrific effects on citizens — in Israel and, far more frequently, in Palestine.
Above the fold, on the front page of 11 June , appears a sea of young men in the occupied territories: As Remnick reported, no mainstream news organization has devoted as much attention as Haaretz — attention from photographers as much as writers — to telling the story of daily life in the occupied territories. We see an old woman in a white chador walking along the infinite-seeming security wall, which divides family members of the town of Abu Dis. Children look out over the bombed-out ruins of Gaza City after the bombardment.
Photojournalism can never fully testify to war and suffering, but these images do something we writers struggle to achieve: Political disputes between secular Jews and the ultra-Orthodox play out in the streets, where we see a young man in street clothes remonstrate with two dozen black-clad Haredim. Ethiopian Jews, one of the most disfavored minorities in the state, march against aggressive policing and for economic justice.
Then there is the no-holds-barred, back-stabbing arena of Israeli politics, deeply imbricated with dirty money of both local and foreign extraction. We see the leathery Sheldon Adelson, the American billionaire and new owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal sitting on a red velvet seat, beside an empty chair bearing the name tag Benjamin Netanyahu. And in a bitterly ironic photograph shot by Emil Salman in , motorists in Jerusalem step out of their cars and stand silently on the road to observe a minute of silence on Holocaust Memorial Day.
In the background, only half-complete and piercing through a brilliantly blue sky are the hideous towers of the Holyland building project. Schocken was succeeded as editor-in-chief by Hanoch Marmari. Haaretz describes itself as having "a broadly liberal outlook both on domestic issues and on international affairs". Haaretz is editorially supportive of groups of Israelis who are exploited or discriminated against, such as sex workers, foreign workers, Israeli Arabs , and Ethiopian immigrants.
In , the BBC said that Haaretz takes a moderate stance on foreign policy and security.
Goldberg , the editor of the American The Jewish Daily Forward , describes Haaretz as "Israel's most vehemently anti- settlement daily paper". In , the newspaper's readership fell to an all-time low of 3. Israel Hayom had an exposure rate of Haaretz uses smaller headlines and print than other mass circulation papers in Israel. Less space is devoted to pictures, and more to political analysis.
Top authors from Israel and around the world take the reins of Haaretz to investigate, report and opine; Kindle users can now download the full version, including. Four Gazans Said Killed, Dozens Wounded by Israeli Live Fire in Border Clashes . Thousands protesting at five locations near the border fence □ Over
Opinion columns are generally written by regular commentators rather than guest writers. In , the newspaper itself reported a paid subscribership of 65,, daily sales of 72, copies, and , on weekends. Despite its historically relatively low circulation in Israel, Haaretz has for many years been described as Israel's most influential daily newspaper. In , Shmuel Rosner , the newspaper's former U. According to The Jerusalem Post , Haaretz editor-in-chief David Landau said at the Limmud conference in Moscow that he had told his staff not to report about criminal investigations against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in order to promote Sharon's — Gaza disengagement plan.
In April , Haaretz published an op-ed by a staff writer that said the religious right is worse than Hezbollah. Haaretz operates both Hebrew [46] and English [47] language websites. Individually, Simon Spungin is the editor of Haaretz. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Avi Issacharoff — military correspondent Sayed Kashua — satiric columnist, author Uri Klein — film critic [51] Yitzhak Laor — publicist Alex Levac — photo columnist Gideon Levy — Palestinian affairs columnist Yoel Marcus — political commentator, publicist [52] Merav Michaeli — cultural and political commentator Amir Oren — military affairs Anshel Pfeffer — political and military affairs Tsafrir Rinat — environmental issues Doron Rosenblum — satirist, publicist Tom Segev — historian, political commentator Ari Shavit — political columnist [53] Yair Sheleg — Jewish religious affairs [54] Nehemia Shtrasler — economic affairs, publicist Simon Spungin — Managing Editor, English Edition Ze'ev Sternhell — political commentary Yossi Verter — political reporter Esther Zandberg — architecture Benny Ziffer — literature, publicist.
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The Politics of Religion and the Religion of Politics: Retrieved 4 May New Brunswick, New Jersey: This study explores the biases, pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian, by looking at quantitative indicators of news coverage in the New York Times and Ha'aretz. Several time periods were examined , , and post-September 11, , using multiple indicators. By these measures, The New York Times is more favorable toward the Israelis than the Palestinians, and the partiality has become more pronounced with time.
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