Kikar HaShabbat, כיכר השבת
Haredi news site covering community, politics and religious affairs. One of the two main Haredi news sites. Stories that matter to the Haredi public often run here and nowhere else in the press.
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What Is Kikar HaShabbat?
Kikar HaShabbat is based in Bnei Brak and has published since 2009, funded by commercial advertising.
No English edition. 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 Kikar HaShabbat’s version next to the rest of the press.
Kikar HaShabbat 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 | Haredi news | Haredi news site covering community, politics and religious affairs. |
| Where baba News places it | Right | On the left-to-right scale, and on the haredi press side of the press. |
| Languages | Hebrew | No English edition. |
| Based in | Bnei Brak | Publishing since 2009. |
| Funding | Commercial advertising | How the newsroom pays for its reporting. |
How baba News Handles Kikar HaShabbat
Every story is grouped with the other newsrooms that reported the same event. Kikar HaShabbat 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 Kikar HaShabbat’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.
- Ynet
- N12
- Haaretz
- Israel Hayom
- Kan News
- Channel 13
- Now 14
- Walla
- Maariv
- The Times of Israel
- The Jerusalem Post
- i24NEWS
- Arutz Sheva
- Behadrei Haredim
- Globes
- Calcalist
- TheMarker
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where does Kikar HaShabbat sit in the Israeli press?
baba News places Kikar HaShabbat on the right of the Israeli press, on the haredi press 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 Kikar HaShabbat in English?
No English edition. 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.
Is Kikar HaShabbat 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?
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