Ynetnews
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Ynetnews is an English language Israel news and content website operated by Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s most-read newspaper, and the Hebrew Israel news portal, Ynet. The Yedioth Group also owns stocks in the Israeli TV Channel "Channel 2"; "Hot", the Cable TV company, weekly local newspapers, magazines, and other non-media companies. Ynetnews editor Yon Feder is being appointed to be editor of Yedioth Ahronoth.
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[edit] History
Ynetnews was established in 2005 in Tel Aviv with the goal of providing the Jewish community and its readers worldwide reporting and real-time breaking news from Israel and the Middle East. The Founding Editor of Ynetnews, Alan Abbey, left in the summer of 2005 to form his own media company, Abbey Content Enterprises, and Ynetnews is now headed by Yon Feder, Editor-in-Chief of Ynet.
Ynetnews’ team of translators and editors provide 24/7 coverage of news from Israel and the Middle East, based on the reporting and writing of Ynet and from Yedioth Ahronoth and other publications of the parent company, Yedioth Group.
Ynetnews also produces original material and works with in-depth news reporting, commentary and analysis by Israel’s public opinion makers as well as features from Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish world.
[edit] Criticism
It is criticized in the Orthodox Jewish world for being virulently anti-Orthodox and anti-settler. In particular, it is often perceived by these communities as regularly printing highly biased articles about especially the Haredi world. Ynetnews allegedly shows its ignorance, for example, by calling the Religious Zionists of America (which affiliates with modern Orthodox religious Zionist Judaism) a 'Haredi' organization -- as well as its discrimination, by singling out religious groups in criticisms of social injustice. Due to this antagonism, in the Haredi world, Yedioth Ahronoth is often referred to by a play on words: Idiot Ahronoth.[citation needed]
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Israel News, (English) The English version of the Hebrew ynet site.
