HADASHOT HAARETZ (NATIONAL NEWS) DAILY OF THE EARLY 20S
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''Hadashot'' (, lit. ''News'') was a
Hebrew-language Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved th ...
daily newspaper published in
Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
between 1984 and 1993.


History

On 4 March 1984 Haaretz Group CEO Amos Schocken announced that a new daily newspaper, ''Hadashot'' was to be launched, with Yossi Klein 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 The Bus 300 affair (), also known as Kav 300 affair, was a 1984 incident in which Shin Bet members executed two Palestinian bus hijackers, immediately after the hostage crisis incident ended and they had been captured. After the incident, the Sh ...
in violation of the
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. 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. 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
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, sometimes highbrow. 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.No more news from Hadashot. (newspaper business closed)
Israel Business Today, December 1993 Senior journalists at the newspaper included Amnon Dankner,
Dudu Geva Dudu Geva ( he, דודו גבע, born March 14, 1950, died February 15, 2005) was an Israeli cartoonist, illustrator, and comic book creator. Biography David (Dudu) Geva was born in Jerusalem. He began his artistic career at the age of 17, writin ...
, Dahn Ben-Amotz and Irit Linur. Photojournalist
Alex Levac Alex Levac (Hebrew: אלכס ליבק, born 1944, Tel Aviv) is an Israeli photojournalist and street photographer. He was awarded the Israel Prize for photography in 2005.Haaretz photographer Alex Levac wins Israel Prize By Smadar Sheffi and ...
also contributed to the newspaper.


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