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{{short description|Israeli daily newspaper}}
{{Distinguish|Land of Israel}}
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{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Haaretz
| logo = Logo Haaretz en 2023 wordmark.svg
| image = Haaretz front page.jpg
| image_size = 250px
| image_alt = border
| caption = 
| type = [[Daily newspaper]]
| format = [[Berliner (format)|Berliner]]
| founded = {{start date and age|1919}}
| ceased_publication = 
| price = 
| owners = [[Salman Schocken|Schocken family]] (75%)<br />[[Leonid Nevzlin]] (25%)<ref name=HaaretzOwn>{{cite news | url = https://www.haaretz.com/shareholders-bought-haaretz-stock-owned-by-m-dumont-schauberg-1.8343399 | title = Shareholders Bought Haaretz Stock Owned by M. DuMont Schauberg | author = Haaretz management | date = 19 December 2019 | newspaper = Haaretz | access-date = 9 May 2021 | archive-date = 9 May 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210509033233/https://www.haaretz.com/shareholders-bought-haaretz-stock-owned-by-m-dumont-schauberg-1.8343399 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
| publisher = [[Amos Schocken]]
| editor = [[Aluf Benn]]<ref name="benn-named">{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/aluf-benn-named-new-editor-in-chief-of-haaretz-1.376311 |title=Aluf Benn named new editor-in-chief of Haaretz |work=Haaretz |date=1 August 2011 |access-date=10 February 2013 |archive-date=23 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523142243/https://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/aluf-benn-named-new-editor-in-chief-of-haaretz-1.376311 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| chief_editor = 
| staff_writers = 
| political_position = [[Centre-left politics|Centre-left]] to [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]]<br />[[Liberalism in Israel|Liberalism]]<br />[[Progressivism]]
| language = [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[English language|English]]
| circulation = 72,000<br />(weekends: 100,000)<ref name=alfon>{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/news/dov-alfon-named-as-new-haaretz-editor-in-chief-1.239137 |title=Dov Alfon named as new Haaretz editor-in-chief |work=Haaretz |date=12 February 2008 |access-date=10 February 2013 |archive-date=23 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523142246/https://www.haaretz.com/news/dov-alfon-named-as-new-haaretz-editor-in-chief-1.239137 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| headquarters = Global HQ:<br />[[Tel Aviv]], Israel<br />North American HQ:<br />[[New York City]]
| oclc = 635016457
| website = {{plainlist |
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[[File:HADASHOT HAARETZ (NATIONAL NEWS) DAILY OF THE EARLY 20S.jpg|thumb|250px|Front page of ''Ḥadshot Ha'aretz'', August 1919]]

'''''Haaretz''''' ({{Langx|he|הָאָרֶץ||The [[Land of Israel|Land [of Israel]]]}}; originally '''''Ḥadshot Haaretz''''' – {{Langx|he|חַדְשׁוֹת הָאָרֶץ|links=no}}, {{IPA|he|χadˈʃot haˈʔaʁets|IPA}}, {{Literal translation|News of the Land [of Israel]}}) is an [[List of newspapers in Israel|Israeli daily newspaper]]. It was founded in 1918, making it the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel. The paper is published in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] and [[English language|English]] in the [[Berliner (format)|Berliner]] format, and is also available online. In [[North America]], it is published as a [[weekly newspaper]], combining articles from the Friday edition with a roundup from the rest of the week. ''Haaretz'' is Israel's [[newspaper of record]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Israel and the New World (Dis)Order | publisher=UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies | date=February 27, 2023 | url=https://www.international.ucla.edu/israel/article/263290 | access-date=December 16, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last=Kutz-Flamenbaum | first=Rachel V. | title=The Importance of Micro-level Effects on Social Movement Outcomes: MachsomWatch at Israeli Checkpoints | journal=[[Sociological Perspectives]] | publisher=Sage Publications, Inc. | volume=59 | issue=2 | year=2016 | issn=1533-8673 | jstor=26339120 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/26339120 | access-date=December 16, 2023 |page=447| doi=10.1177/0731121415587604 | url-access=subscription }}</ref> It is known for its [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] and [[Liberalism in Israel|liberal]] stances on domestic and foreign issues.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fas.org/irp/dni/osc/israelmedia.pdf|title=Israel — Hebrew- and English-Language Media Guide|publisher=Open Source Center|date=16 September 2008|access-date=15 July 2022|archive-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508142637/https://fas.org/irp/dni/osc/israelmedia.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

{{As of|2022|post=,}} ''Haaretz'' has the third-largest [[Print circulation|circulation]] in Israel.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |title=ישראל היום או ידיעות? זה העיתון הנקרא בישראל {{!}} סקר TGI |url=https://www.ice.co.il/research/news/article/842505 |access-date=2022-09-04 |website=Ice |date=31 January 2022 |language=he |archive-date=14 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314235909/https://www.ice.co.il/research/news/article/842505 |url-status=live }}</ref> It is widely read by international observers, especially in its English edition, and discussed in the international press.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sheizaf|first=Noam|date=26 October 2010|url=https://www.972mag.com/the-political-line-of-israeli-papers-a-readers-guide/|title=The political line of Israeli papers (a reader's guide)|website=+972 Magazine|access-date=15 July 2022|archive-date=15 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715141528/https://www.972mag.com/the-political-line-of-israeli-papers-a-readers-guide/|url-status=live}}</ref> According to the [[Center for Research Libraries]], among Israel's daily newspapers, "''Haaretz'' is considered the most influential and respected for both its news coverage and its commentary."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crl.edu/focus/article/7331|title=CRL Obtains Haaretz|website=CRL|language=en|access-date=2018-05-05|archive-date=6 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180506035735/https://www.crl.edu/focus/article/7331|url-status=live}}</ref>

==History and ownership==
''Haaretz'' was first published in 1918 as a newspaper sponsored by the British military government in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/bronfman/kesher29.heb.html#haaretz |title=TAU – Institute of Jewish Press and Communications – The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Center |publisher=[[Tel Aviv University]] |access-date=10 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925002822/http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/bronfman/kesher29.heb.html |archive-date=25 September 2012 }}</ref> In 1919, it was taken over by a group of [[Labor Zionism|socialist-oriented Zionists]], mainly from [[Russia]].<ref name=fas>{{cite web |url=https://fas.org/irp/dni/osc/israelmedia.pdf |title=Israel — Hebrew- and English-Language Media Guide |publisher=[[Open Source Center]] |date=16 September 2008 |access-date=13 February 2014 |archive-date=8 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508142637/https://fas.org/irp/dni/osc/israelmedia.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="A fine and fragile balance">{{cite news |last=Marmari |first=Hanoch |date=16 April 2004 |title=A fine and fragile balance |work=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/a-fine-and-fragile-balance-1.119759 |url-status=dead |access-date=10 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103003728/http://www.haaretz.com/a-fine-and-fragile-balance-1.119759 |archive-date=3 November 2012}}</ref> The newspaper was established on 18 June 1919 by a group of businessmen including the philanthropist [[Isaac Leib Goldberg]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Goldberg, Isaac Leib (1860-1935) Papers |url=http://polishjews.yivoarchives.org/archive/?p=collections/controlcard&id=17441 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112201732/http://polishjews.yivoarchives.org/archive/?p=collections/controlcard&id=17441 |archive-date=12 January 2015 |access-date=21 February 2024 |website=YIVO digital archive on Jewish Life in Poland}}</ref> initially called ''Hadashot Ha'aretz'' ("News of the Land"). Later, the name was shortened to ''Haaretz''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cohen |first=Yoel |title=Haaretz |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/haaretz |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230616190929/https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/haaretz |archive-date=16 June 2023 |access-date=21 February 2024 |website=[[Encyclopedia.com]] |postscript=. From [[Encyclopaedia Judaica]] 2nd ed.}}</ref> The literary section of the paper attracted leading Hebrew writers of the time.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Judaica |title=Newspapers, Hebrew |volume=12 |publisher=Keter Books |location=Jerusalem |year=1978}}</ref>

The newspaper was initially published in [[Jerusalem]]. From 1919 to 1922, the paper was headed by a succession of editors, among them [[Leib Yaffe]]. It was closed briefly due to a budgetary shortfall and reopened in Tel Aviv at the beginning of 1923 under the editorship of Moshe Glickson, who held the post for 15 years.<ref name="A fine and fragile balance"/> The Tel Aviv municipality granted the paper financial support by paying in advance for future advertisements.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/haaretz-history-1.265016 |title=Haaretz history |author=Tom Segev |author-link=Tom Segev |newspaper=Haaretz |date=18 March 2010 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007075704/http://www.haaretz.com/haaretz-history-1.265016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, ''Haaretz''{{'}}s liberal viewpoint was to some degree associated with the [[General Zionist]] "A" faction,<ref name=Edelheit>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s8PADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA473|title=History Of Zionism: A Handbook and Dictionary|author=Hershel Edelheit & Abraham J. Edelheit|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2000|page=473|isbn=9780429701030|access-date=1 April 2020|archive-date=24 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124131842/https://books.google.com/books?id=s8PADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA473#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> which later helped form the [[Progressive Party (Israel)|Progressive Party]],<ref>{{cite book|title=The In/outsiders: The Media in Israel|author=Dan Caspi & Yehiel Limor|publisher=Hampton Press|year=1999|page=79|quote=Haaretz was closely aligned with the General Zionists A faction (which became the Progressive Party in 1948), a liberal stream in the Zionist Movement. The newspaper consistently maintained a liberal-centrist and anti-socialist orientation in social and economic affairs and generally adopted a dovish and firm anti-nationalistic line in political and security matters.}}</ref> though it was nonpartisan and careful not to espouse any specific party line.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PuPGsI6JR2UC&pg=PA75|title=Telepopulism: Media and Politics in Israel|last=Peri|first=Yoram|publisher=Stanford University Press|year=2004|page=75|isbn=9780804750028|quote=Similarly, Haaretz, although independent, had a distinctly liberal (though nonpartisan) character. It is not surprising that its editor, Gershom Schocken, was a representative of the Progressive Party in the third Knesset in the years 1955–59.|access-date=1 April 2020|archive-date=24 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124131843/https://books.google.com/books?id=PuPGsI6JR2UC&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Palestine Affairs|volume=2|publisher=American Zionist Emergency Council|year=1947|quote=''Haaretz'' has always been the mouthpiece of the liberal wing of the General Zionists, and through the years it has gained a reputation for independence and high literary standards.}}</ref> It was considered the most sophisticated of the [[Yishuv]]'s dailies.<ref name=Edelheit/>

[[Salman Schocken]], a Jewish businessman who left Germany in 1934 after the [[Nazis]] had come to power, bought the paper in December 1935. Schocken was active in [[Brit Shalom (political organization)|Brit Shalom]], also known as the Jewish–Palestinian Peace Alliance, a body supporting co-existence between Jews and Arabs which was sympathetic to a homeland for both peoples. His son, [[Gershom Schocken]], became the chief editor in 1939 and held that position until his death in 1990.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/a-newspaper-s-mission-1.314618 |title=A newspaper's mission |author=Amos Schocken |newspaper=Haaretz |date=18 September 2002 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007151408/http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/a-newspaper-s-mission-1.314618 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The Schocken family were the sole owners of the Haaretz Group until August 2006, when they sold a 25% stake to German publisher [[M. DuMont Schauberg]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dumont.eu/dumont/dir/?101798 |title=M. DuMont Schauberg. Press-release |publisher=Dumont.eu |access-date=10 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226155151/http://www.dumont.eu/dumont/dir/?101798 |archive-date=26 February 2012 }}</ref> The deal was negotiated with the help of the former Israeli ambassador to Germany, [[Avi Primor]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Koren |first=Ronny |url=https://www.haaretz.com/news/germany-s-dumont-invests-25m-euros-in-haaretz-group-1.195055 |title=Germany's DuMont invests 25m euros in Haaretz |work=Haaretz |date=13 August 2006 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007085806/http://www.haaretz.com/news/germany-s-dumont-invests-25m-euros-in-haaretz-group-1.195055 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This deal was seen as controversial in Israel as DuMont Schauberg's father, [[Kurt Neven DuMont]], was a member of the [[Nazi Party]] and his publishing house promoted Nazi ideology.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3292189,00.html |title=Haaretz's 'Nazi problem' |publisher=[[Ynetnews]] |date=16 August 2006 |access-date=10 February 2013 |archive-date=6 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130206033947/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3292189,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 12 June 2011, it was announced that Russian-Israeli businessman [[Leonid Nevzlin]] had purchased a 20% stake in the Haaretz Group, buying 15% from the family and 5% from M.&nbsp;DuMont Schauberg.<ref>{{cite news |author=Li-or Averbach |url=http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-1000653184 |title=Russian immigrant billionaire buys 20% of "Haaretz" |newspaper=[[Globes (newspaper)|Globes]] |date=12 June 2011 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006072723/http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-1000653184 |url-status=live }}</ref> In December 2019, members of the Schocken family bought all of the Haaretz stock belonging to M.&nbsp;DuMont Schauberg.<ref name=HaaretzOwn/> The deal saw the Schocken family reach 75% ownership, with the remaining 25% owned by Leonid Nevzlin.<ref name=HaaretzOwn/>

In October 2012, a union strike mobilized to protest planned layoffs by the ''Haaretz'' management, causing a one-day interruption of ''Haaretz'' and its ''TheMarker'' business supplement. According to [[Israel Radio]], it was the first time since 1965 that a newspaper did not go to press on account of a strike.<ref>{{cite news|last=Koopmans |first=Ofira |title=Journalists at Israel's Haaretz newspaper strike over job cuts |url=http://en.europeonline-magazine.eu/journalists-at-israels-haaretz-newspaper-strike-over-job-cuts_241385.html |publisher=Europe Online |date=4 October 2012 |access-date=12 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527082723/http://en.europeonline-magazine.eu/journalists-at-israels-haaretz-newspaper-strike-over-job-cuts_241385.html |archive-date=27 May 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title='Haaretz' daily not printed today |url=http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-1000787939 |newspaper=[[Globes (newspaper)|Globes]] |date=4 October 2012 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006145312/http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-1000787939 |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 24 November 2024, the Israeli government ordered a boycott of ''Haaretz'' by government officials and anyone working for a government-funded body, and banned government advertising with the newspaper.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lis |first=Jonathan |date=2024-11-24 |title=Israeli Government Imposes Sanctions on Haaretz, Cuts All Ties and Pulls Advertising |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-24/ty-article/.premium/israeli-govt-to-cut-ties-with-haaretz-over-publishers-remarks-on-freedom-fighters/00000193-5e5c-d68e-a1db-fe5c54cf0000 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241125002714/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-24/ty-article/.premium/israeli-govt-to-cut-ties-with-haaretz-over-publishers-remarks-on-freedom-fighters/00000193-5e5c-d68e-a1db-fe5c54cf0000 |archive-date=25 November 2024 |access-date=24 November 2024 |website=Haaretz}}</ref> According to ''[[The Guardian]]'', ''Haaretz'' "had published a series of investigations of wrongdoing or abuses by senior officials and the [[Israel Defense Forces|armed forces]], and has long been in the crosshairs of the [[Thirty-seventh government of Israel|current government]]."<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Burke |first=Jason |date=2024-11-24 |title=Israeli government orders officials to boycott left-leaning paper Haaretz |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/24/israeli-government-orders-officials-to-boycott-left-leaning-paper-haaretz |access-date=2024-11-25 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> The sanctions against ''Haaretz'' were condemned by the [[Committee to Protect Journalists]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-11-25 |title=CPJ calls on Israel to lift government boycott of Haaretz newspaper |url=https://cpj.org/2024/11/cpj-calls-on-israel-to-lift-government-boycott-of-haaretz-newspaper/ |access-date=2026-02-06 |website=Committee to Protect Journalists |language=en-US}}</ref> and by [[Anton Harber]] and Irwin Manoim, the founders and editors of the South African newspaper ''[[Weekly Mail]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Miltz |first=Nicola |date=2024-12-05 |title=Veteran anti-apartheid editors slam Ha’aretz sanctioning |url=https://www.sajr.co.za/veteran-anti-apartheid-editors-slam-haaretz-sanctioning/ |access-date=2026-02-06 |website=[[South Africa Jewish Report]] |language=en-ZA}}</ref> They stated in a [[letter to the editor]] of ''Haaretz'', "The Netanyahu government's sanctions against ''Ha'aretz'' have brought back vivid memories of our own newspaper's struggle against [[Apartheid South Africa|the apartheid government]] about four decades ago."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harber |first=Anton |last2=Manoim |first2=Irwin |date=December 3, 2024 |title=In solidarity with Haaretz, an institution Israel ought to take pride in |url=https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-12-03/ty-article/in-solidarity-with-haaretz-an-institution-israel-ought-to-take-pride-in/00000193-88fd-d8fa-af9f-baffd49c0000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241205105949/https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-12-03/ty-article/in-solidarity-with-haaretz-an-institution-israel-ought-to-take-pride-in/00000193-88fd-d8fa-af9f-baffd49c0000 |archive-date=5 December 2024 |access-date=2026-02-06 |work=Haaretz |language=en |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":0" />

==Management==
The newspaper's editorial policy was defined by [[Gershom Schocken]], who was editor-in-chief from 1939 to 1990. Schocken was succeeded as editor-in-chief by Hanoch Marmari. In 2004 [[David Landau (journalist)|David Landau]] replaced Marmari and was succeeded by [[Dov Alfon]] in 2008.<ref name=remnick/> The current editor-in-chief of the newspaper is [[Aluf Benn]], who replaced Alfon in August 2011.<ref name="benn-named" /> Charlotte Halle became editor of the English print edition in February 2008.

[[Walter Gross (journalist)|Walter Gross]] was a member of the governing editorial board and a columnist with the paper from 1951 to 1995.<ref>{{cite news|title=Walter Gross: Zionist words of wisdom|author=Silver, Eric|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=22 September 1995|page=17}}</ref>

==Editorial policy and viewpoints==
''Haaretz'' describes itself as having "a broadly liberal outlook both on domestic issues and on international affairs",<ref>{{cite news |work=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/news/about-haaretz-1.63277 |title=About Haaretz |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=14 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114083552/http://www.haaretz.com/news/about-haaretz-1.63277 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and has been summarized as being "liberal on security, civil rights and economy, supportive of the Supreme Court, very critical of Netanyahu's government".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Dridi|first=Tarak|date=9 July 2020|title=Reporting Strategies of Israeli Print Media: Jerusalem Post and Haaretz as a Case Study|journal=SAGE Open|volume=10|issue=3|article-number=2158244020936986 |doi=10.1177/2158244020936986|s2cid=222080595 |doi-access=free | issn=2158-2440 }}</ref> Others describe it alternatively as [[Liberalism|liberal]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Kaspî |first=Dān |title=Media Decentralization: The Case of Israel's Local Newspapers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JTgj0YnxRkIC&pg=PA16 |date=January 1986 |publisher=[[Transaction Publishers]] |isbn=978-1-4128-2833-8|pages=16–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Ira |last=Sharkansky |author-link=Ira Sharkansky |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yOfJoCpiMf4C&q=haaretz+liberal+newspaper&pg=PA101 |title=The Politics of Religion and the Religion of Politics: Looking at Israel |publisher=[[Lexington Books]] |year=2000 |isbn=9780739101094 |access-date=11 November 2020 |archive-date=24 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124131944/https://books.google.com/books?id=yOfJoCpiMf4C&q=haaretz+liberal+newspaper&pg=PA101#v=onepage&q=haaretz%20liberal%20newspaper&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2583675.stm |work=[[BBC News]] |title=Israeli media vents fury at Likud |date=17 December 2002 |access-date=4 May 2010 |archive-date=3 May 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040503221323/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/middle_east/2583675.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> [[centre-left]],<ref>{{cite news |author=Mya Guarnieri |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/02/201126123643463123.html |publisher=[[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al Jazeera]] |edition=English |title=The death of Israeli democracy |date=6 February 2011 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=5 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005070755/http://english.aljazeera.net//indepth/features/2011/02/201126123643463123.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[left-wing]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3451497.stm |title=Sharon orders Gaza pullout plan |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2 February 2004 |access-date=5 March 2010 |archive-date=3 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203123323/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3451497.stm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2007/09/24/idUSL24528048 |title=Israeli authors urge ceasefire talks with Hamas |work=[[Reuters]] |date=24 September 2007 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006141436/http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/09/24/idUSL24528048 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21612240-both-sides-consume-fantasy-news-propaganda-war |title=Propaganda war |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |date=16 August 2014 |access-date=5 March 2010 |archive-date=14 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814210157/http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21612240-both-sides-consume-fantasy-news-propaganda-war |url-status=live }}</ref> and the country's only major left-leaning newspaper.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=I. Mateo|date=Spring 2022|title=The Right-Wing 'One-State Solution': Narrative, Proposals, and the Future of the Conflict|journal=Israel Studies|publisher=Indiana University Press|volume=27|issue=1|pages=132–155|doi=10.2979/israelstudies.27.1.06 |jstor=10.2979/israelstudies.27.1.06|s2cid=247621415 }}</ref> The paper opposes continuing the [[Israeli occupation]] of the [[Palestinian territories]] and consistently supports peace initiatives.<ref>''Israel — Hebrew- and English-Language Media Guide'', p. 14</ref> The ''Haaretz'' editorial line is supportive of weaker elements in Israeli society, such as sex workers, foreign laborers, [[Arab citizens of Israel|Israeli Arabs]], [[Ethiopian Jews|Ethiopian immigrants]], and [[1990s Post-Soviet aliyah|Russian immigrants]].<ref name=fas/>

===International media views===
In 2006, the [[BBC]] said that ''Haaretz'' takes a moderate stance on foreign policy and security.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4969714.stm |title=The press in Israel |work=[[BBC News]] |date=8 May 2006 |access-date=13 February 2014 |archive-date=2 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090402011145/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4969714.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> [[David Remnick]] in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' described ''Haaretz'' as "easily the most liberal newspaper in Israel", its ideology as left-wing and its temper as "insistently oppositional".<ref name=remnick>{{cite news |last=Remnick |first=David |title=The Dissenters |url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/28/110228fa_fact_remnick |access-date=12 October 2012 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=28 February 2011 |author-link=David Remnick |archive-date=17 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017003344/http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/28/110228fa_fact_remnick |url-status=live }}</ref> According to [[Ira Sharkansky]], ''Haaretz''{{'}}s [[op-ed]] pages are open to a variety of opinions.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sharkansky |first=Ira |author-link=Ira Sharkansky |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dlhmWNcqlrAC&pg=PA43 |title=Governing Israel: Chosen People, Promised Land, & Prophetic Tradition |publisher=[[Transaction Publishers]] |location=New Brunswick, New Jersey |year=2005 |page=43 |isbn=978-0-7658-0277-4 |access-date=27 September 2020 |archive-date=24 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124131843/https://books.google.com/books?id=dlhmWNcqlrAC&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> [[J. J. Goldberg]], the editor of the American ''[[The Jewish Daily Forward]]'', describes ''Haaretz'' as "Israel's most vehemently anti-[[Israeli settlement|settlement]] daily paper".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://forward.com/articles/104263/are-religious-soldiers-to-blame-for-alleged-abuse/? |title=Are Religious Soldiers To Blame for Alleged Abuse? |first=J. J. |last=Goldberg |author-link=J.J. Goldberg |newspaper=[[The Forward]] |date=3 April 2009 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006084833/http://forward.com/articles/104263/are-religious-soldiers-to-blame-for-alleged-abuse/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Stephen Glain of ''[[The Nation]]'' described ''Haaretz'' as "Israel's liberal beacon", citing its editorials voicing opposition to the occupation, the discriminatory treatment of Arab citizens, and the mindset that led to the [[Second Lebanon War]].<ref name=glazin/> A 2003 study in ''[[The International Journal of Press/Politics]]'' concluded that ''Haaretz''{{'}}s reporting of the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]] was more favorable to Israelis than to Palestinians but less so than that of ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name="viser">{{cite journal |title=Attempted Objectivity: An Analysis of the New York Times and Ha'aretz and their Portrayals of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict |journal=The International Journal of Press/Politics |date=September 2003 |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=114–120 |doi=10.1177/1081180X03256999 |author=Matt Viser|s2cid=145209853 }}</ref> In 2016, [[Jeffrey Goldberg]], the editor-in-chief of ''[[The Atlantic]]'', wrote: "I like a lot of the people at ''Haaretz'', and many of its positions, but the cartoonish [[anti-Israelism]] and [[anti-Semitism]] can be grating."<ref>[https://www.jta.org/2016/08/02/news-opinion/united-states/journalist-jeffrey-goldberg-under-fire-after-tweeting-he-will-stop-reading-haaretz Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg stirs storm after tweeting he might stop reading Haaretz] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311201446/https://www.jta.org/2016/08/02/news-opinion/united-states/journalist-jeffrey-goldberg-under-fire-after-tweeting-he-will-stop-reading-haaretz |date=11 March 2018 }}, JTA, 2 August 2016</ref><ref name="FT201610">[https://www.ft.com/content/252f849c-75a5-11e6-bf48-b372cdb1043a Amos Schocken, third-generation proprietor of Ha'aretz] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311142142/https://www.ft.com/content/252f849c-75a5-11e6-bf48-b372cdb1043a |date=11 March 2018 }}, Financial Times, John Reed, 3 October 2016</ref>

===Position on Palestinian statehood===
The paper strongly advocated a [[two-state solution]] in July 2025, at a high point of the [[Gaza–Israel conflict]]. Its editorial<ref>{{cite news |date=25 July 2025 |url=https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2025-07-27/ty-article-opinion/macron-is-right-about-two-states/00000198-480c-d6be-a1bd-499dfc1f0000 |title=Editorial: Macron Is Right About Two States |work=Haaretz |access-date=14 September 2025}}</ref> welcomed and endorsed the proposal by French President [[Emmanuel Macron]] to include France by September 2025 in the number of countries which recognise a Palestinian state.<ref>{{cite news |first=Jaroslav |last=Lukiv| date=25 July 2025 |title=France will recognise Palestinian state, Macron says |work=[[BBC]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg5g4p3245o |access-date=14 September 2025}}</ref>

== Formatting, circulation, and reputation ==
[[File:Newspapers.jpg|250px|thumb|Front page of the Hebrew and English editions]]

=== Circulation ===
In 2022, a TGI survey found that ''Haaretz'' was the newspaper with the third largest [[Audience measurement|readership]] in Israel, with an exposure rate of 4.7%, below ''[[Israel Hayom]]''<nowiki/>'s rate of 31% and {{Lang|he-latn|[[Yedioth Ahronoth]]}}'s 23.9%.<ref name="auto"/>

=== Formatting and image ===
''Haaretz'' uses smaller headlines and print than other mass circulation [[List of newspapers in Israel|papers in Israel]]. Less space is devoted to pictures, and more to [[political analysis]]. Opinion columns are generally written by regular commentators rather than guest writers.<ref name=fas/> Its editorial pages are considered influential among government leaders.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Beckerman |first=Gal |date=September–October 2005 |title=Disengaged |journal=[[Columbia Journalism Review]] |url=http://cjrarchives.org/issues/2005/5/beckerman.asp |access-date=21 June 2007 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007125902/http://cjrarchives.org/issues/2005/5/beckerman.asp |archive-date=7 October 2007<!-- as of October 2014, cjr.org archive http://www.cjr.org/issues/ goes back to 2007 and it says "2006: We are converting older issues to the new site as quickly as possible." So expect this article to return to cjr.org site soon.-->}}</ref> Apart from the news, ''Haaretz'' publishes feature articles on social and environmental issues, as well as book reviews, investigative reporting, and political commentary. In 2008, the newspaper itself reported a paid subscribership of 65,000, daily sales of 72,000 copies, and 100,000 on weekends.<ref name=alfon/> The English edition has a subscriber base of 15,000.<ref name=glazin>{{cite news |url=http://www.thenation.com/article/haaretz-israels-liberal-beacon |title=Ha'aretz, Israel's Liberal Beacon |author=Stephen Glain |work=[[The Nation]] |date=24 September 2007 |access-date=13 February 2014 |archive-date=7 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107011841/https://www.thenation.com/article/haaretz-israels-liberal-beacon/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Readership and reception ===
Despite its historically relatively low circulation in Israel, ''Haaretz'' has for many years been described as Israel's most influential daily newspaper.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-23-wr-14090-story.html |title=Next Step: 4 Israelis Jostle to Lead Likud Out of Wilderness |last=Parks |first=Michael |date=23 March 1993 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=7 April 2012 |archive-date=13 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313084438/http://articles.latimes.com/1993-03-23/news/wr-14090_1_israel-s-likud-party |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Karpin |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Karpin |title=The Bomb in the Basement |year=2006 |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |location=New York |isbn=0-7432-6595-5 |page=ix |url=https://archive.org/details/bombinbasementho00karp|url-access=registration }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Yakira |first=Elhanan |title=Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust: Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the Delegitimation of Israel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=of9JuUYLOZoC&pg=PA210 |year=2010 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0-521-11110-2 |page=210}}</ref> In 2006, it exposed a scandal regarding professional and ethical standards at Israeli hospitals.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Rabinovich-Einy |first=Orna |title=Beyond IDR: Resolving Hospital Disputes and Healing Ailing Organizations Through ITR |journal=St. John's Law Review |date=Winter 2007 |volume=81 |number=1/2 |page=173|id={{ProQuest|216778117}} }}{{subscription required}}</ref> Its readership includes members of Israel's intelligentsia and members of its political and economic elites.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Idith |last1=Zertal |first2=Chaya|last2=Galai |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bQEAmjk4Wh0C&pg=PA218 |title=Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2005 |page=218|isbn=9781139446624 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Elizabeth |last1=Poole |first2=John E. |last2=Richardson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-zcIlDfHfn0C&pg=PA143 |title=Muslims and the News Media |publisher=[[I.B. Tauris]] |year=2006 |page=143|isbn=9781845111724 }}</ref> In 1999, surveys showed that ''Haaretz'' readership had above-average education, income, and wealth, and that most were [[Ashkenazi Jews]].<ref name=glazin/><ref>{{cite book |first1=Dan |last1=Caspi |author-link=Dan Caspi |first2=Yehiel |last2=Limor |title=The IN/Outsiders: Mass Media in Israel |publisher=[[Hampton Press]] |year=1999 |page=79}}</ref> Some have said that ''Haaretz'' functions in Israel much as ''[[The New York Times]]'' does in the United States, as a [[newspaper of record]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Manji |first=Irshad |author-link=Irshad Manji |title=The Trouble with Islam Today|year=2003 |publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]] |location=New York |isbn=0-312-32700-5 |page=75 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=odvcBMbgpe0C&pg=PA75}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |jstor=30133876 |title=Muting the Alarm over the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: 'The New York Times' versus 'Haaretz', 2000–06 |last=Slater |first=Jerome |journal=International Security |volume=32 |pages=84–120 |number=2 |date=Fall 2007 | doi = 10.1162/isec.2007.32.2.84 |s2cid=57569122 |quote=There is a widespread consensus in Israel and elsewhere that ''Haaretz'' is Israel's best and most prestigious newspaper—in effect, the Israeli equivalent of the ''New York Times''.}}{{subscription required}}</ref> In 2007, [[Shmuel Rosner]], ''Haaretz''<nowiki/>'s former U.S. correspondent, told ''[[The Nation]]'', "people who read it are better educated and more sophisticated than most, but the rest of the country doesn't know it exists."<ref name=glazin/> According to Hanoch Marmari, a former ''Haaretz'' editor, the newspaper has lost its political influence in Israel because it became "detached" from the country's political life.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/427/479.html |script-title=he:עורך 'הארץ' לשעבר: 'הארץ' איבד את מעמדו הציבורי |language=he |trans-title=Former ''Haaretz editor'': ''Haaretz'' has lost its public standing |publisher=[[nrg Maariv]] |date=8 January 2013 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=29 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029184640/http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/427/479.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Andrea Levin]], executive director of the pro-Israel [[Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America]] (CAMERA), said ''Haaretz'' was doing "damage to the truth" and sometimes making serious factual errors without correcting them.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ross |first=Oakland |title=News and views that inspire love or kindle hatred |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/2008/10/05/news_and_views_that_inspire_love_or_kindle_hatred.html |newspaper=[[Toronto Star]] |date=5 October 2008 |access-date=13 February 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204064540/http://www.thestar.com/article/512004--news-and-views-that-inspire-love-or-kindle-hatred |archive-date=4 February 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> According to ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'', ''Haaretz'' editor-in-chief [[David Landau (journalist)|David Landau]] said at the 2007 [[Limmud]] conference in Moscow that he had told his staff not to report on criminal investigations against Prime Minister [[Ariel Sharon]] in order to promote Sharon's 2004–2005 [[Israel's unilateral disengagement plan|Gaza disengagement plan]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Haviv Rettig Gur |author-link=Haviv Rettig |url=https://www.jpost.com/Features/Limmud-diary-Creme-de-la-Kremlin |title=Limmud diary: Creme de la Kremlin? |newspaper=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |date=25 October 2007 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006102614/http://www.jpost.com/Features/Limmud-diary-Creme-de-la-Kremlin |url-status=live }}</ref> In April 2017, ''Haaretz'' published an op-ed by a staff writer that said the Israeli religious right was worse than [[Hezbollah]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Paper draws fire for op-ed calling national religious worse than Hezbollah |url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/paper-draws-fire-for-op-ed-calling-national-religious-worse-than-hezbollah/ |access-date=6 November 2024 |work=[[Times of Israel]] |date=13 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413140128/http://www.timesofisrael.com/paper-draws-fire-for-op-ed-calling-national-religious-worse-than-hezbollah/ |archive-date=13 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Boker |first1=Ran |title=Haaretz slammed for article calling national religious 'worse than Hezbollah' |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-4948707%2C00.html |access-date=6 November 2024 |work=[[Ynetnews]] |date=13 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414094212/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4948707,00.html |archive-date=14 April 2017}}</ref> Condemnation followed, including from Prime Minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], President [[Reuven Rivlin]], and other government ministers and [[List of members of the twentieth Knesset|MPs]], as well as from Opposition Leader [[Isaac Herzog]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Haaretz op-ed draws condemnations across the political spectrum |url=http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=41743 |access-date=6 November 2024 |work=[[Israel Hayom]] |date=14 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414164054/http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=41743|archive-date=14 April 2017}}</ref>

On 31 October 2024, ''Haaretz''{{'s}} publisher [[Amos Schocken]] made remarks during a speech at a ''Haaretz'' conference in London, criticising the [[Thirty-seventh government of Israel|Netanyahu government]] for allegedly imposing an [[Israeli Apartheid|apartheid regime]] on the Palestinian population and referring to "Palestinian freedom fighters that Israel calls terrorists." In response, the Israeli [[Ministry of Interior (Israel)|interior]], [[Ministry of Education (Israel)|education]], [[Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism|diaspora]] ministries severed ties with ''Haaretz'' while the [[Ministry of Communications (Israel)|Communications Minister]] [[Shlomo Karhi]] advocated a boycott of the newspaper covering all government bodies and employees.<ref>{{cite web |last1=MacDonald |first1=Alex |title=Israel targets Haaretz after publisher calls Palestinians 'freedom fighters' |url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-targets-haaretz-after-publisher-calls-palestinians-freedom-fighters |website=[[Middle East Eye]] |access-date=6 November 2024 |date=1 November 2024 |archive-date=9 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241109120026/https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-targets-haaretz-after-publisher-calls-palestinians-freedom-fighters |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Winer |first1=Stuart |title=Haaretz in government crosshairs after publisher calls terrorists 'freedom fighters' |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/haaretz-in-government-crosshairs-after-publisher-calls-terrorists-freedom-fighters/ |access-date=6 November 2024 |work=[[Times of Israel]] |date=31 October 2024 |archive-date=9 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241109104551/https://www.timesofisrael.com/haaretz-in-government-crosshairs-after-publisher-calls-terrorists-freedom-fighters/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Schocken distanced himself from parts of comments the next day, saying that "the use of terrorism is not legitimate". By 4 November, the newspaper had received hundreds of cancellation and subscription termination requests, and a decline in advertising revenue. Several ministries had requested to cancel their subscriptions, with the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)|Israeli foreign ministry]] cancelling 90 subscriptions.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wertheim |first1=David |title=Hundreds of cancellations at Haaretz following Schocken's comments |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-827415 |access-date=6 November 2024 |work=[[Jerusalem Post]] |date=4 November 2024 |archive-date=4 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241104033055/https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-827415 |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Internet editions ==
''Haaretz'' operates both Hebrew and English language websites. The two sites offer up-to-the-minute breaking news, live Q&A sessions with newsmakers from Israel, the Palestinian territories and elsewhere, and blogs covering a range of political standpoints and opinions. The two sites fall under the supervision of Lior Kodner, the head of [[digital media]] for the Haaretz Group. Individually, Simon Spungin is the editor of Haaretz.com (English) and Avi Scharf is the editor of Haaretz.co.il (Hebrew).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/ |script-title=he:הארץ |language=he |trans-title=Haaretz |access-date=15 July 2022 |archive-date=30 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090730193302/http://www.haaretz.co.il/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/ |title=Haaretz Daily Newspaper Israel |access-date=15 July 2022 |archive-date=23 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923090815/https://www.haaretz.com// |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Offices==
[[File:PikiWiki Israel 8304 former haaretz building in tel -aviv.jpg|thumb|200px|Former ''Haaretz'' building (1932–1973), of which only part of the facade has been preserved]]
The ''Haaretz'' building is on Schocken Street in south [[Tel Aviv]].<ref name=remnick/>

The former ''Haaretz'' building of 1932–1973 was designed by architect [[Joseph Berlin]]. It was demolished in the early 1990s, with only part of the facade preserved and integrated into the new building at 56, Maza Street.

==Journalists and writers==

===Present===
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* [[Ruth Almog]] – literature, publicist
* [[Merav Arlosoroff]] – economy affairs columnist (in The Marker)
* [[Avraham Balaban]] – Tel Aviv and cultural history publicist
* [[Zvi Barel]] – Middle East affair commentator 
* {{ill|Omer Benjakob|he|עומר בן יעקב}} - technology, disinformation, Wikipedia
* [[Aluf Benn]] – editor-in-chief
* [[Bradley Burston]] – political columnist<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/haaretz-com-s-bradley-burston-wins-award-for-mideast-writing-1.197350 |title=Haaretz.com's Bradley Burston wins award for Mideast writing |newspaper=Haaretz |date=15 September 2006 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007130754/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/haaretz-com-s-bradley-burston-wins-award-for-mideast-writing-1.197350 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Saggi Cohen – food columnist
* [[Lily Galili]]<ref>{{cite news |date=4 January 2013 |last=Zur Glozman |first=Masha |url=https://www.haaretz.com/2013-01-04/ty-article/.premium/the-million-russians-who-changed-israel/0000017f-dc7b-df62-a9ff-dcff067f0000 |title=The million Russians that Changed Israel to its core |work=Haaretz |access-date=10 February 2013 |archive-date=1 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201074206/http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/the-million-russians-that-changed-israel-to-its-core.premium-1.491885 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Doram Gaunt]] – food columnist
* [[Avirama Golan]]
* [[Ehud Barak]]
* [[Ehud Olmert]]
* [[Zehava Galon]]
* [[Amos Harel]] – military correspondent
* [[Israel Harel]] – columnist
* [[Danna Harman]] – feature writer
* [[Amira Hass]] – Ramallah-based Palestinian affairs correspondent.
* [[Avi Issacharoff]] – military correspondent
* [[Uri Klein]] – film critic<ref name="autogenerated3" />
* [[Yitzhak Laor]] – publicist
* [[Alex Levac]] – photo columnist
* [[Gideon Levy]] – Palestinian affairs columnist
* Amir Mandel – classic music critic
* [[Amir Oren]] – military affairs
* [[Sammy Peretz]] – economic affairs columnist (in The Marker)
* [[Anshel Pfeffer]] – political and military affairs
* [[Tsafrir Rinat]] – environmental issues
* [[Guy Rolnick]] – economic affairs editorialist (of The Marker)
* [[Doron Rosenblum]] – satirist, publicist
* Ruth Schuster,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/WRITER-1.4968353|title=Ruth Schuster - Haaretz Com|access-date=3 May 2021|archive-date=4 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504052736/https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/WRITER-1.4968353|url-status=dead}}</ref> Senior Editor for archaeology and science at the Haaretz English Edition.
* [[Tom Segev]] – historian, political commentator
* [[Ben Shalev]] – popular music critic
* [[Nehemia Shtrasler]] – economic affairs, publicist
* [[Simon Spungin]] – Managing Editor, English Edition
* [[Gadi Taub]] – political commentary
* [[Amir Tibon]]
* [[Yossi Verter]] – political reporter
* [[Esther Zandberg]] – architecture
* [[Benny Ziffer]] – literature, publicist
{{colend}}

===Past===
[[File:PASSENGERS SEATED IN ONE OF THE PALESTINE AIRWAYS "SCION" PLANES DURING FLIGHT. נוסעים במהלך טיסה של חברת "נתיבי אויר ארץ ישראל".D2-055.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Passengers on board a [[Palestine Airways]] [[Short Scion]], 1939. The second passenger on the left is reading ''Haaretz''.]]
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* [[Nathan Alterman]] (1910–1970) 
* [[Moshe Arens]] – columnist
* [[Ehud Asheri]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Carmel |first=Asaf |url=https://www.haaretz.com/news/haaretz-journalist-ehud-asheri-dies-of-cancer-at-57-1.240574 |title=Haaretz journalist Ehud Asheri dies of cancer at 57 |work=Haaretz |date=3 March 2008 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007141153/http://www.haaretz.com/news/haaretz-journalist-ehud-asheri-dies-of-cancer-at-57-1.240574 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Gidi Avivi]] – popular music critic<ref>{{cite news |last=Avivi |first=Gidi |author-link=Gidi Avivi |url=https://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/irresistible-look-at-a-master-1.64340 |title=Irresistible look at a master |work=Haaretz |date=18 July 2001 |access-date=10 February 2013 |archive-date=23 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523142339/https://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/irresistible-look-at-a-master-1.64340 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Meron Benvenisti]] (1934–2020) – political columnist
* [[Noam Ben Ze'ev]] – music critic
* [[Yoram Bronowski]] (1948–2001) – literary critic, TV critic
* [[Arie Caspi]]<ref>{{cite news |author=Orna Coussin |url=https://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/a-compelling-lesson-1.229741 |title=A compelling lesson |date=21 September 2007 |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007101643/http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/a-compelling-lesson-1.229741 |url-status=dead }} Review of {{cite book |title=''Hazakim al halashim'' (''Strong Over the Weak'') |author=Arie Caspi |publisher=Xargol/Am Oved}}</ref>
* [[Daniel Dagan]]
* [[Akiva Eldar]] – diplomatic affairs analyst<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/news-in-brief-1.230512 |title=News in Brief |newspaper=Haaretz |date=5 October 2007 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007114935/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/news-in-brief-1.230512 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Amos Elon]] (1926–2009) – correspondent, editor, writer
* [[Boaz Evron]]
* [[Michael Handelzalts]] – theater critic, columnist
* [[Sayed Kashua]] – satiric columnist, author
* [[Jerrold Kessel]]
* Yair Kotler<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-03-05/ty-article/.premium/the-egyptians-called-it-the-village-of-death-what-haaretz-saw-near-gaza-70-years-ago/00000195-616f-d593-a1b5-efff742b0000|title=The Egyptians called it the 'Village of Death': What Haaretz saw near Gaza 70 years ago|first=Ofer|last=Aderet}}</ref>
* [[Tami Litani]]
* [[Aviva Lori]]<ref>{{cite news |author=Ofer Aderet |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/2013-10-09/ty-article/.premium/aviva-lori-haaretz-writer-passes-away/0000017f-e08f-d804-ad7f-f1ff694d0000 |title=Aviva Lori, veteran writer for Haaretz Magazine, passes away |newspaper=Haaretz |date=9 October 2013 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=23 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523142345/https://www.haaretz.com/culture/.premium-1.551536 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Yoel Marcus]] – political commentator, publicist<ref>{{cite news |last=Carmel |first=Asaf |url=https://www.haaretz.com/news/fellow-journalists-to-honor-haaretz-commentator-yoel-marcus-in-eilat-1.232876 |title=Fellow journalists to honor Haaretz commentator Yoel Marcus in Eilat |work=Haaretz |date=9 November 2007 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007100036/http://www.haaretz.com/news/fellow-journalists-to-honor-haaretz-commentator-yoel-marcus-in-eilat-1.232876 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Yossi Melman]] – former intelligence correspondent
* [[Natasha Mozgovaya]] – former U.S. correspondent
* [[Ran Reznick]] – health issues<ref name="autogenerated3">{{cite news |author=Asaf Carmel |url=https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/917773.html |title=Haaretz reporters Klein, Reznick win Sokolov Award for Journalism |newspaper=Haaretz |date=28 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070802091348/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/917773.html |archive-date=2 August 2007}}</ref>
* [[Daniel Rogov]] – food and wine critic
* [[Danny Rubinstein]] – former Arab affairs analyst
* [[Gideon Samet]] – political commentator<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/the-long-goodbye-1.248989 |title=The long goodbye |author=Aviva Lori |newspaper=Haaretz |date=3 July 2008 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007082727/http://www.haaretz.com/the-long-goodbye-1.248989 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Yossi Sarid]] (1940–2015) – politician, publicist
* [[Ze'ev Schiff]] – military and defense analyst
* [[Daniel Ben Simon]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Ben Simon |first=Daniel |author-link=Daniel Ben-Simon |url=https://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/daniel-ben-simon-why-i-m-leaving-journalism-for-politics-1.247790 |title=Daniel Ben-Simon: Why I'm leaving journalism for politics |work=Haaretz |date=13 June 2008 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=9 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209003523/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/daniel-ben-simon-why-i-m-leaving-journalism-for-politics-1.247790 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Ruth Sinai]] – social welfare and humanitarian issues
* [[Ze'ev Segal]] – law
* [[Ari Shavit]] – political columnist<ref>{{cite news |title=No Man's Land: The idea of a city disappears |author=Ari Shavit |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=9 December 2002 |url=http://www.indopubs.com/is4.html |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924034517/http://www.indopubs.com/is4.html |url-status=live }}{{failed verification|date=October 2014}}</ref>
* [[Yair Sheleg]] – Jewish religious affairs<ref>{{cite web |author=Elan Ezrachi, Ph.D. |title=Jewish Renaissance and Renewal in Israel |url=http://www.nathancummings.org/jewish/special2.htm |publisher=Dorot and Nathan Cummings Foundations |date=c. 2000 <!-- has to be between 2000 (newest citation in text) and 26 April 2004 (oldest archive date at archive.org)--> |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040426023832/http://www.nathancummings.org/jewish/special2.htm |archive-date=26 April 2004 }}</ref>
* [[Nadav Shragai]]
* [[Ze'ev Sternhell]] – political commentary
*[[Benjamin Tammuz]] (1919–1989) -  literary critic, writer, editor of the literary supplement 
* [[Pavel Wolberg]] – photographer
* [[Merav Michaeli]]
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==See also==
{{portal|Journalism|Israel}}
* [[Culture of Israel]]
* [[Economy of Israel]]
* [[List of newspapers in Israel]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{Cite book |last1=Merrill |first1=John C .|author-link=John C. Merrill |last2=Fisher |first2=Harold A. |date=1980 |title=The World's Great Dailies: Profiles of Fifty Newspapers |url=https://archive.org/details/worldsgreatdaili0000merr |url-access=registration |ref=pp 151–55}}
* {{Cite news |last=Remnick |first=David |author-link=David Remnick |date=28 February 2011 |title=The Dissenters – ''Haaretz'' Prides Itself on Being the Conscience of Israel. Does It Have a Future? |url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/28/110228fa_fact_remnick |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}
* {{Cite news |last=Schult |first=Christoph |date=31 December 2008 |title=Problems at Israel's ''Haaretz'': Newspaper Without a Country |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/problems-at-israel-s-haaretz-newspaper-without-a-country-a-599005.html |work=[[Der Spiegel]]}}
* {{Cite web |first=Shmuel |last=Rosner |author-link=Shmuel Rosner |date=11 May 2017 |title=The People vs. Haaretz |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/opinion/the-people-vs-haaretz.html |department=Opinion |work=[[The New York Times]] }}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Haaretz}}
* {{Official website|https://www.haaretz.com/}}
* {{Official website|https://www.haaretz.co.il/}} {{in lang|he}}
* {{cite news |title=About Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/news/about-haaretz-1.63277 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100827151854/http://www.haaretz.com/news/about-haaretz-1.63277 |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 August 2010 |work=Haaretz |date=12 July 2001}}
* [https://web.nli.org.il/sites/JPress/English/Pages/HaAretz.aspx Archive of Hebrew edition, 1918–2019]

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