HaAyin HaShevi'it

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HaAyin HaShevi'it (Hebrew: העין השביעית, lit. The Seventh Eye) is an Israeli Internet site that investigates and discusses the media field, especially mass media in Israel.

The printed version magazine was first published by the Israel Democracy Institute in 1996, initially once every two months. It delivered its final print issue, #70, in January 2008. For economic and systemic reasons, the executives of the newspaper decided to stop publishing the print version and move its operations completely to the internet.

In April 2015, the newsroom departed from the Israel Democracy Institute. Today, the publisher is an independent NGO that was founded by the site's staff and some of the frequent contributing writers.

The founding editor of The Seventh Eye is . On 2012, Benziman was replaced by former Haaretz editor-in-chief . In April 2015, as the site departed from Israel Democracy Institute, Marmari was replaced by , the acting editor under him and Benziman since 2008.

Alongside Benziman, Marmari and Tausig, the site's staff and list of frequent writers include journalists and media experts such as , Yuval Dror, , , , , , , , Yaron Ezrahi, and two staff investigative reporters and columnists, and .

Hundreds of other Israeli writers have been featured in The Seventh Eye since 1996. Some of the most familiar names are , , Ehud Ya'ari, , Uri Avneri, Haim Yavin, , Ilana Dayan, , Raviv Drucker, Alex Levac, Yaron London, , Dan Caspi—as well as Nahum Barnea and , two of the founding members of the magazine and past staff columnists.

External links[]

• Official website (in Hebrew)
• Selected articles in English
• Nati Tucker and Amir Teig, "The watchdogs' watchdog: 'Balanced' journalism is a recipe for corruption", Haaretz, 26 August 2014
• Eytan Avriel, "How Israel profits from the nonprofits" Haaretz, 28 April 2015
• Reportings by The Seventh Eye in English, +972 Magazine