Israel Hayom, ישראל היום
Free national daily newspaper based in Tel Aviv. Distributed free, which is how it became the most widely read print paper in Israel. baba News places it on the right.
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What Is Israel Hayom?
Israel Hayom is based in Tel Aviv and has published since 2007. It is owned by Israel Hayom Ltd., funded by privately funded free daily.
A small English site exists. The Hebrew edition is the full paper. baba News reads it alongside 57 other Israeli newsrooms, translates each story to English, and groups it with every other outlet that covered the same event, so you can see Israel Hayom’s version next to the rest of the press.
Israel Hayom at a Glance
From the baba News source register, which records what a newsroom is rather than how good it is.
| Field | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | General daily | Free national daily newspaper based in Tel Aviv. |
| Where baba News places it | Right | On the left-to-right scale, and on the right side of the press. |
| Languages | Hebrew | A small English site exists. The Hebrew edition is the full paper. |
| Based in | Tel Aviv | Publishing since 2007. |
| Ownership | Israel Hayom Ltd. | As recorded in the baba News source register. |
| Funding | Privately funded free daily | How the newsroom pays for its reporting. |
How baba News Handles Israel Hayom
Every story is grouped with the other newsrooms that reported the same event. Israel Hayom arrives with its own headline rendered in English, its place on the left-to-right scale, and the filing time that shows whether it moved first or followed. Where one side of the press ran a story and another did not, the side that stayed quiet is named.
baba News does no original reporting and does not reproduce Israel Hayom’s article text. It writes a short English summary, labelled as its own, and links to the original with the publisher’s advertising and paywall intact.
The Rest of the Press
Every newsroom with a profile here, by the side of the press it sits on.
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- Walla
- Maariv
- The Times of Israel
- The Jerusalem Post
- i24NEWS
- Arutz Sheva
- Kikar HaShabbat
- Behadrei Haredim
- Globes
- Calcalist
- TheMarker
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where does Israel Hayom sit in the Israeli press?
baba News places Israel Hayom on the right of the Israeli press, on the right side. That is a placement for comparing coverage, not a rating of accuracy: the point is to see what each side of the press ran and what it left out.
Can I read Israel Hayom in English?
A small English site exists. The Hebrew edition is the full paper. To follow it in English alongside the rest of the Israeli press, baba News translates every story and groups it with the other newsrooms that covered the same event.
Who owns Israel Hayom?
Israel Hayom Ltd.. It is funded by privately funded free daily. Ownership and funding are part of every newsroom profile on baba News, because who pays for a newsroom is context a reader is entitled to have.
Is Israel Hayom reliable?
baba News does not score newsrooms for reliability, and treats any single licensed "factuality" number as something a reader should not have to take on faith. What it publishes instead is checkable: who owns the outlet, how it is funded, which stories it ran, which it did not, how it worded them, and how quickly it filed compared with the rest of the press.
What else does baba News read?
58 Israeli newsrooms publishing in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, French and English, from the national broadcasters to the Haredi, religious-Zionist, Arabic and Russian-language press and official statement feeds.
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