Hadashot

Hadashot (Hebrew: חדשות, lit. News) was a Hebrew-language daily newspaper published in Israel between 1984 and 1993.

History[]

On 4 March 1984 Haaretz Group CEO announced that a new daily newspaper, Hadashot was to be launched, with as editor. It was one of the first Israeli newspapers to use colour printing.

The paper was soon hit by a scandal as it published details of the Kav 300 affair in violation of the Israeli Military Censor. Having decided not to join the Editors Committee, Hadashot published a story stating that an investigative committee had been formed to look into the incident. As a result, the censor closed the paper for three days from 29 April 1984 for not sending the information about the article.^[1] Although the paper was cleared of all charges in 1993, the closure damaged the momentum the paper had gained.

Hadashot initially had a young, left-wing, anti-establishment image, and was written in youthful Hebrew, bordering on slang. The paper's approach was inconsistent; sometimes yellow, sometimes highbrow.^[2] In later years it became more conservative. Circulation remained low and at a press conference on 29 November 1993, Schocken announced the closure of the paper. The last edition was published on 29 December 1993, with the paper having made a cumulative loss of around $20 million.^[3]

Senior journalists at the newspaper included Amnon Dankner, Dudu Geva, Dahn Ben-Amotz and Irit Linur. Photojournalist Alex Levac also contributed to the newspaper.

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