View source for Yated Ne'eman (Hebrew)

{{Short description|Hebrew-language daily newspaper based in Bnei Brak for a Haredi readership}}
{{Distinguish|Yated Ne'eman (English)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2012}}
{{use American English|date=October 2022}}
{{Infobox Newspaper
| name               = Yated Ne'eman
| logo               = Yated neeman.svg
| image              = Yated Ne'eman front page.jpg
| type               = [[Daily newspaper]]
| format             = [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|Tabloid]]
| foundation         = {{start date and age|1985}}
| owners             = 
| political          = [[Haredi]]
| headquarters       = 
| editor             = 
| circulation        = 
| publishing_country = Israel
}}
'''''Yated Ne'eman''''' ({{langx|he|יָתֵד נֶאֱמָן}})<ref name=YatedIsrael2021NYT>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
   |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/world/middleeast/israeli-media-netanyahu-bennett.html
   |title=Glum to Gleeful, Israeli Media React to Possible End of Netanyahu Era
   |author=Adam Rasgon |date=May 31, 2021 |access-date=October 21, 2022}}</ref> is a semi-major [[Israel]]i daily [[Hebrew language]] newspaper based in [[Bnei Brak]]. The Hebrew edition is published daily except on the Jewish [[Sabbath]].<ref>or Jewish Holidays, although this does not preclude past sundown for distribution the following day</ref> A weekly English language edition was published in [[Israel]] and distributed in Israel, [[South Africa]] and [[United Kingdom|Britain]] until December 2006.

An English language newspaper by the [[Yated Ne'eman (United States)|same name]] is published in [[New York City|New York]]. It was formerly affiliated with the Israeli newspaper, but is currently independent. This article concentrates on the Israeli Yated Ne'eman.

==History==
The paper was founded in 1985 by Rabbis [[Elazar Shach]] (1898–2001) and [[Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky]] (1899–1985).<ref name=TheREPORTERbook>{{cite book
   |title=The Reporter: stories with a point from the pen of a gifted journalist
   |isbn=978-1-60091-157-6  |author=Kobi Levy |year=2011 |publisher=Israel Bookshop}}</ref>{{rp|pp.39-40}} In 1988 Rabbi Shach went on to found the [[Degel HaTorah]] political party that later joined forces with [[Agudat Yisrael|Agudath Israel]] and is called [[United Torah Judaism]]. ''Yated'', whose first editor was Rabbi [[Moshe Grylak]],<ref name=TheREPORTERbook/>{{rp|p.43}} was founded as part of a broad initiative to have a full range of social and communal organizations that specifically serve the [[Misnagdim|Lithuanian Torah]] community, after it was felt that [[Agudat Israel]], its institutions, and their paper [[Hamodia]] no longer represented their point of view.

''Yated Ne'eman'' is controlled by its rabbinic board which had deferred to Rabbis [[Nissim Karelitz]] and [[Aharon Leib Shteinman]] on all matters pertaining to the content of the newspaper. In the spirit of Rabbi Shach, its ideology is non-Zionist, with strong opposition to both [[religious Zionism]] as well as secular [[Zionism]]. In May 2016, it opined that Israel is responsible for [[Antisemitism|anti-Semitism]] throughout the world, writing that "The State of Israel, which was established to solve the problem of anti-Semitism, has become the main cause of anti-Semitism. The Jews of the world are suffering not because of their religion, but because of the State of Israel and its policies!" and "The natural state of the Jewish people is exile! Its normality is in the pressure cooker of hatred and persecution."<ref>{{Cite news|author=Yair Ettinger|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-some-jews-in-the-1930s-also-thought-hitler-aided-zionism-1.5380590/|title=Not Only Livingstone: Some Jews in the 1930s Also Thought Hitler Aided Zionism|work=Haaretz|date=6 May 2016|access-date=2020-04-27}}</ref>  In practice, these particular views are reflected in only a handful of articles each year. Most of the content reports news related to the religious community and articles supporting their ideology which is based on Torah study and mitzvah observance and does not define its basic identity in political terms.

Since December 2006, the [[Chareidi]] ''Dei'ah Vedibur''<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.chareidi.org
  |title=Dei'ah Vedibur}}</ref> website has continued offering weekly news coverage and occasional religious content in English. The website is edited by the publicist Mordecai Plaut.

The [[Yated Ne'eman (United States)|Yated Neeman]] newspaper published in New York was originally affiliated with the [[Jerusalem]] paper of the same name, but is no longer affiliated due to a [[Schism (religion)|schism]].

==The name==
The Hebrew phrase "''yated ne'eman''" literally refers to a peg strongly anchored in the ground, and is used figuratively to describe a secure connection or something which can be relied upon. The name was supposedly given by Rabbi Kanievsky and comes from [[Isaiah]] 22 verse 23, "ותקעתיו '''יתד''', במקום '''נאמן'''", translated as "And I will fasten him as '''a nail''' in a '''sure''' place", or as "I will drive him like '''a peg''' in a '''firm''' place".

==Censorship==
On April 3, 2009, the paper published a manipulated picture of Israeli cabinet ministers<ref name=LaFemYatedIsrael2009NYT>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
   |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/setbacks-for-women-in-israel-pakistan-and-afghanistan/
   |title=Women Erased in Israel, Flogged in Pakistan and Restricted in Afghanistan
   |author=Robert Mackey |author2=Sharon Otterman |date=April 3, 2009 |access-date=October 21, 2022}}</ref> to conform to Religious sensitivities of its readers. Female cabinet ministers [[Limor Livnat]] and [[Sofa Landver]] were digitally removed from the published picture and replaced with male ministers [[Ariel Atias]] and [[Moshe Kahlon]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/women-in-israeli-govt-not-if-photoshop-can-help/ |title=Women in Israeli govt? Not if Photoshop can help |date=April 4, 2009
|publisher=[[The Seattle Times]] |access-date=July 5, 2024}}</ref>

In 2015, the newspaper refused to print advertisements for the political campaign of [[U'Bizchutan]], a newly formed political party dedicated to the needs of Haredi women and including female candidates on its slate. Ruth Kolian, head of the party, then petitioned the court to stop the discriminatory practice. The party prevailed and the court ordered the newspaper to accept the advertisements. The court rejected the claims made by the news organizations that they might offend customers by publishing ads for the Haredi women's party. The head of [[the Rackman Center]] for the Advancement of the Status of Women at Bar-Ilan University's Law Faculty, Professor [[Ruth Halperin-Kaddari]], called the court decision "a historic legal precedent which determines that in certain circumstances, considerations of equality for women and election equality, as well as preventing discrimination against women and their preventing their exclusion, surpass property rights of commercial bodies like newspapers. Haredi women are not only prevented in practice from realizing the basic human right of running and being elected for Knesset, they are also denied the equal opportunity to inform their potential voters that they are running independently."<ref>[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4636935,00.html Court orders Haredi papers to run campaign ads for women's party] YNET, 14 March 2015</ref> Nevertheless, the paper still refused to publish the advertisement and it never ran.

==See also==
*[[List of Israeli newspapers]]
*[[Lithuanian Judaism]]

==References==
{{reflist|colwidth=30em}}

==External links==
*[http://www.chareidi.org Dei'ah veDibur: ''Yated Ne'eman'' Bnei Brak online] Selected the articles of the Hebrew Israeli edition are published online weekly in translation, refreshed every Wednesday night.

{{Newspapers in Israel}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yated Ne'eman}}
[[Category:1985 establishments in Israel]]
[[Category:Newspapers established in 1985]]
[[Category:Haredi Judaism in Israel]]
[[Category:Hebrew-language newspapers]]
[[Category:Daily newspapers published in Israel]]
[[Category:Haredi anti-Zionism]]
[[Category:Haredi newspapers]]
[[Category:Jewish anti-Zionism in Israel]]
[[Category:Mass media in Bnei Brak]]
[[Category:Religious mass media in Israel]]
[[Category:Conservatism in Israel]]
[[Category:Rabai Shech]]
[[Category:Words and phrases in Modern Hebrew]]