Israel Hayom
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Front page, 27 July 2016
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| Type | Free daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Publisher | Asher Baharav |
| Editor-in-chief | Amos Regev |
| Deputy editor | Aharon Lapidot |
| General manager | Zippi Koren |
| News editor | Baruch Ron |
| Sports editor | Eli Sahar |
| Launched | 30 July 2007 |
| Political alignment | Centre-right |
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| Headquarters | 2 HaShlosha St., Tel Aviv |
| Country | Israel |
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| Sister newspapers | Makor Rishon |
| OCLC number | 234764640 |
| Website | israelhayom |
| Free online archives | israelhayom |
Israel Hayom (Hebrew: ישראל היום, lit. 'Israel Today') is an Israeli national Hebrew language free daily newspaper, first published in 2007. It has the largest daily circulation in the country.
Israel Hayom was launched on 30 July 2007 and competed directly with Israeli, another free daily. The same year, Maariv editor Dan Margalit left the newspaper to write for Israel Hayom. A weekend edition was launched in October 2009. In 2014, Israel Hayom bought Israeli media outlets Makor Rishon and nrg.
In 2014, it was believed that Sheldon Adelson invested in total at least $50 million in Israel Hayom. Adelson's support of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led the latter's political opponents in the Knesset to sponsor a bill that would prevent the free distribution of newspapers in Israel. Framed as a bill to prevent unfair competition and save the Israeli print newspaper industry, critics of the bill said it hurts free enterprise and is a thinly veiled attempt to target Adelson and his political causes, as Israel Hayom is Israel's only free-of-charge national newspaper. The bill passed the first reading in the Knesset, but not subsequent ones. In 2016, Adelson's attorney announced that although it is commonly believed that he owns the newspaper, he does not, it is owned by a relative of his.
2008 study by Moran Rada published in The Seventh Eye showed that while competing newspapers' coverage of Benjamin Netanyahu was "not especially fair," Israel Hayom's coverage was biased in favor of Netanyahu in most editorial decisions, that the paper chooses to play down events that don't help to promote a positive image for Netanyahu, while on the other hand, touting and inflating events that help promote Netanyahu and the Likud. Oren Persico reached the same conclusion after the 2009 Knesset elections, writing that throughout the campaign, Israel Hayom published only one article critical of the Likud, and tens of articles critical of Kadima.
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