Vesti (Israel)
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | compact |
| Owner(s) | Yedioth Ahronoth Group |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Political alignment | Right-wing |
| Language | Russian |
| Headquarters | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Country | Israel |
| Website | Vesti |
Vesti (Russian: Вести, "News") is an Israeli Russian-language daily newspaper. Based in Tel Aviv, the paper is Israel's most widely read Russian-language paper and its only remaining daily paper in Russian. The paper was started in 1992 by Yedioth Ahronoth Group, which remains its owner. It was very widely read in the 1990s but its sales have slumped more recently. The paper was edited by the refusenik Eduard Kuznetsov from 1992 to 1999.
In 1996 Vesti was read by around 200,000 people. Since the 1990s sales of Russian-language papers in Israel have fallen sharply as emigration from Russian-speaking countries has slowed and immigrants who arrived earlier have switched to Hebrew papers. Israeli newspaper sales have also declined across the board, largely due to the internet. Vesti's sales have fallen significantly, forcing it to take cost-cutting measures, including dropping its earlier broadsheet format for a compact format in 2004. In 2005 its claimed top circulation was 55,000. It employed 50 journalists in 2001.
In 1994 the paper cost 0.60 shekels ($0.20), a third the cost of the Hebrew papers Yedioth Ahronoth and Maariv, reflecting its relatively poor immigrant readership.
Vesti has a right-wing editorial stance, like Israeli Russian-language media in general. in 1999 it was described as "rightist-to-center on the peace process, and close to Likud on internal issues". It supported Natan Sharansky in Israel's 1996 elections. The Israeli academic Tamar Horowitz states that the paper, and the Russian press in general, played an important role in those elections: "It was Vesti that defined Netanyahu's success in the 1996 elections. The voice of the Labor Party was absent from the pages of the Russian newspapers. Had there been a Labor equivalent to Vesti, the results would have been very different." In 1997 Vesti's readers chose Avigdor Lieberman as "Politician of the Year". The paper strongly opposed disengagement from Gaza in 2005. Each day the paper includes a supplement on a different topic: health, home life, sports, etc.
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