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Haaretz was first published in 1918 as a newspaper sponsored by the British military government in Palestine.{{cite web|url=http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/bronfman/kesher29.heb.html#haaretz |title=TAU – Institute of Jewish Press and Communications – The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Center |publisher=Tel Aviv University |access-date=10 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925002822/http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/bronfman/kesher29.heb.html |archive-date=25 September 2012 }} In 1919, it was taken over by a group of socialist-oriented Zionists, mainly from Russia.{{cite web |url=https://fas.org/irp/dni/osc/israelmedia.pdf |title=Israel — Hebrew- and English-Language Media Guide |publisher=Open Source Center |date=16 September 2008 |access-date=13 February 2014 |archive-date=8 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508142637/https://fas.org/irp/dni/osc/israelmedia.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=Marmari |first=Hanoch |date=16 April 2004 |title=A fine and fragile balance |work=Haaretz |url=http://www.haaretz.com/a-fine-and-fragile-balance-1.119759 |url-status=live |access-date=10 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103003728/http://www.haaretz.com/a-fine-and-fragile-balance-1.119759 |archive-date=3 November 2012}} The newspaper was established on 18 June 1919 by a group of businessmen including the philanthropist Isaac Leib Goldberg,{{Cite web |last=Yivo Institute for Jewish Research |author-link=YIVO |title=Goldberg, Isaac Leib (1860-1935) Papers |url=http://polishjews.yivoarchives.org/archive/?p=collections/controlcard&id=17441 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112201732/http://polishjews.yivoarchives.org/archive/?p=collections/controlcard&id=17441 |archive-date=12 January 2015 |access-date=21 February 2024 |website=YIVO digital archive on Jewish Life in Poland}} initially called Hadashot Ha'aretz ("News of the Land"). Later, the name was shortened to Haaretz.{{Cite web |last=Cohen |first=Yoel |title=Haaretz |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/haaretz |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230616190929/https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/haaretz |archive-date=16 June 2023 |access-date=21 February 2024 |website=Encyclopedia.com |postscript=. From Encyclopaedia Judaica 2nd ed.}} The literary section of the paper attracted leading Hebrew writers of the time.{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Judaica |title=Newspapers, Hebrew |volume=12 |publisher=Keter Books |location=Jerusalem |year=1978}}

The newspaper was initially published in Jerusalem. From 1919 to 1922, the paper was headed by a succession of editors, among them Leib Yaffe. It was closed briefly due to a budgetary shortfall and reopened in Tel Aviv at the beginning of 1923 under the editorship of Moshe Glickson, who held the post for 15 years. The Tel Aviv municipality granted the paper financial support by paying in advance for future advertisements.{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/haaretz-history-1.265016 |title=Haaretz history |author=Tom Segev |author-link=Tom Segev |newspaper=Haaretz |date=18 March 2010 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007075704/http://www.haaretz.com/haaretz-history-1.265016 |url-status=live }}

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Haaretz{{'}}s liberal viewpoint was to some degree associated with the General Zionist "A" faction,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s8PADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA473|title=History Of Zionism: A Handbook and Dictionary|author=Hershel Edelheit & Abraham J. Edelheit|publisher=Routledge|year=2000|page=473|isbn=9780429701030|access-date=1 April 2020|archive-date=24 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124131842/https://books.google.com/books?id=s8PADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA473#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}} which later helped form the Progressive Party,{{cite book|title=The In/outsiders: The Media in Israel|author=Dan Caspi & Yehiel Limor|publisher=Hampton Press|year=1999|page=79|quote=Haaretz was closely aligned with the General Zionists A faction (which became the Progressive Party in 1948), a liberal stream in the Zionist Movement. The newspaper consistently maintained a liberal-centrist and anti-socialist orientation in social and economic affairs and generally adopted a dovish and firm anti-nationalistic line in political and security matters.}} though it was nonpartisan and careful not to espouse any specific party line.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PuPGsI6JR2UC&pg=PA75|title=Telepopulism: Media and Politics in Israel|last=Peri|first=Yoram|publisher=Stanford University Press|year=2004|page=75|isbn=9780804750028|quote=Similarly, Haaretz, although independent, had a distinctly liberal (though nonpartisan) character. It is not surprising that its editor, Gershom Schocken, was a representative of the Progressive Party in the third Knesset in the years 1955–59.|access-date=1 April 2020|archive-date=24 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124131843/https://books.google.com/books?id=PuPGsI6JR2UC&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=Palestine Affairs|volume=2|publisher=American Zionist Emergency Council|year=1947|quote=Haaretz has always been the mouthpiece of the liberal wing of the General Zionists, and through the years it has gained a reputation for independence and high literary standards.}} It was considered the most sophisticated of the Yishuv's dailies.

Salman Schocken, a Jewish businessman who left Germany in 1934 after the Nazis had come to power, bought the paper in December 1935. Schocken was active in Brit Shalom, also known as the Jewish–Palestinian Peace Alliance, a body supporting co-existence between Jews and Arabs which was sympathetic to a homeland for both peoples. His son, Gershom Schocken, became the chief editor in 1939 and held that position until his death in 1990.{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/a-newspaper-s-mission-1.314618 |title=A newspaper's mission |author=Amos Schocken |newspaper=Haaretz |date=18 September 2002 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007151408/http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/a-newspaper-s-mission-1.314618 |url-status=live }}

The Schocken family were the sole owners of the Haaretz Group until August 2006, when they sold a 25% stake to German publisher M. DuMont Schauberg.{{cite web|url=http://www.dumont.eu/dumont/dir/?101798 |title=M. DuMont Schauberg. Press-release |publisher=Dumont.eu |access-date=10 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226155151/http://www.dumont.eu/dumont/dir/?101798 |archive-date=26 February 2012 }} The deal was negotiated with the help of the former Israeli ambassador to Germany, Avi Primor.{{cite news |last=Koren |first=Ronny |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/germany-s-dumont-invests-25m-euros-in-haaretz-group-1.195055 |title=Germany's DuMont invests 25m euros in Haaretz |work=Haaretz |date=13 August 2006 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007085806/http://www.haaretz.com/news/germany-s-dumont-invests-25m-euros-in-haaretz-group-1.195055 |url-status=live }} This deal was seen as controversial in Israel as DuMont Schauberg's father, Kurt Neven DuMont, was member of the Nazi Party and his publishing house promoted Nazi ideology.{{cite news |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3292189,00.html |title=Haaretz's 'Nazi problem' |publisher=Ynetnews |date=16 August 2006 |access-date=10 February 2013 |archive-date=6 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130206033947/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3292189,00.html |url-status=live }}

On 12 June 2011, it was announced that Russian-Israeli businessman Leonid Nevzlin had purchased a 20% stake in the Haaretz Group, buying 15% from the family and 5% from M. DuMont Schauberg.{{cite news |author=Li-or Averbach |url=http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-1000653184 |title=Russian immigrant billionaire buys 20% of "Haaretz" |newspaper=Globes |date=12 June 2011 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006072723/http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-1000653184 |url-status=live }} In December 2019, members of the Schocken family bought all of the Haaretz stock belonging to M. DuMont Schauberg. The deal saw the Schocken family reach 75% ownership, with the remaining 25% owned by Leonid Nevzlin.

In October 2012, a union strike mobilized to protest planned layoffs by the Haaretz management, causing a one-day interruption of Haaretz and its TheMarker business supplement. According to Israel Radio, it was the first time since 1965 that a newspaper did not go to press on account of a strike.{{cite news|last=Koopmans |first=Ofira |title=Journalists at Israel's Haaretz newspaper strike over job cuts |url=http://en.europeonline-magazine.eu/journalists-at-israels-haaretz-newspaper-strike-over-job-cuts_241385.html |publisher=Europe Online |date=4 October 2012 |access-date=12 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527082723/http://en.europeonline-magazine.eu/journalists-at-israels-haaretz-newspaper-strike-over-job-cuts_241385.html |archive-date=27 May 2013 }}{{cite news |title='Haaretz' daily not printed today |url=http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-1000787939 |newspaper=Globes |date=4 October 2012 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006145312/http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-1000787939 |url-status=live }}

On 24 November 2024, the Israeli government ordered a boycott of Haaretz by government officials and anyone working for a government-funded body, and banned government advertising with the newspaper.{{Cite web |date=2024-11-24 |title=Israeli Government Imposes Sanctions on Haaretz, Cuts All Ties and Pulls Advertising |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-24/ty-article/.premium/israeli-govt-to-cut-ties-with-haaretz-over-publishers-remarks-on-freedom-fighters/00000193-5e5c-d68e-a1db-fe5c54cf0000 |website=Haaretz |access-date=24 November 2024 |archive-date=25 November 2024 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241125002714/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-24/ty-article/.premium/israeli-govt-to-cut-ties-with-haaretz-over-publishers-remarks-on-freedom-fighters/00000193-5e5c-d68e-a1db-fe5c54cf0000 |url-status=live }} According to The Guardian, Haaretz "had published a series of investigations of wrongdoing or abuses by senior officials and the armed forces, and has long been in the crosshairs of the current government."{{Cite news |last=Burke |first=Jason |date=2024-11-24 |title=Israeli government orders officials to boycott left-leaning paper Haaretz |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/24/israeli-government-orders-officials-to-boycott-left-leaning-paper-haaretz |access-date=2024-11-25 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

The newspaper's editorial policy was defined by Gershom Schocken, who was editor-in-chief from 1939 to 1990. Schocken was succeeded as editor-in-chief by Hanoch Marmari. In 2004 David Landau replaced Marmari and was succeeded by Dov Alfon in 2008. The current editor-in-chief of the newspaper is Aluf Benn, who replaced Alfon in August 2011. Charlotte Halle became editor of the English print edition in February 2008.

Walter Gross was a member of the governing editorial board and a columnist with the paper from 1951 to 1995.{{cite news|title=Walter Gross: Zionist words of wisdom|author=Silver, Eric|work=The Guardian|date=22 September 1995|page=17}}

Haaretz describes itself as having "a broadly liberal outlook both on domestic issues and on international affairs",{{cite news |work=Haaretz |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/about-haaretz-1.63277 |title=About Haaretz |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=14 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114083552/http://www.haaretz.com/news/about-haaretz-1.63277 |url-status=live }} and has been summarized as being "liberal on security, civil rights and economy, supportive of the Supreme Court, very critical of Netanyahu's government".{{cite journal|last=Dridi|first=Tarak|date=9 July 2020|title=Reporting Strategies of Israeli Print Media: Jerusalem Post and Haaretz as a Case Study|journal=SAGE Open|volume=10|issue=3|doi=10.1177/2158244020936986|s2cid=222080595 |doi-access=free | issn=2158-2440 }} Others describe it alternatively as liberal,{{cite book |last=Kaspî |first=Dān |title=Media Decentralization: The Case of Israel's Local Newspapers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JTgj0YnxRkIC&pg=PA16 |date=January 1986 |publisher=Transaction Publishers |isbn=978-1-4128-2833-8|pages=16–}}{{cite book |first=Ira |last=Sharkansky |author-link=Ira Sharkansky |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yOfJoCpiMf4C&q=haaretz+liberal+newspaper&pg=PA101 |title=The Politics of Religion and the Religion of Politics: Looking at Israel |publisher=Lexington Books |year=2000 |isbn=9780739101094 |access-date=11 November 2020 |archive-date=24 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124131944/https://books.google.com/books?id=yOfJoCpiMf4C&q=haaretz+liberal+newspaper&pg=PA101#v=onepage&q=haaretz%20liberal%20newspaper&f=false |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/middle_east/2583675.stm |work=BBC News |title=Israeli media vents fury at Likud |date=17 December 2002 |access-date=4 May 2010 |archive-date=3 May 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040503221323/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/middle_east/2583675.stm |url-status=live }} centre-left,{{cite news |author=Mya Guarnieri |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/02/201126123643463123.html |publisher=Al Jazeera |edition=English |title=The death of Israeli democracy |date=6 February 2011 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=5 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005070755/http://english.aljazeera.net//indepth/features/2011/02/201126123643463123.html |url-status=live }} left-wing,{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3451497.stm |title=Sharon orders Gaza pullout plan |work=BBC News |date=2 February 2004 |access-date=5 March 2010 |archive-date=3 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203123323/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3451497.stm |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2007/09/24/idUSL24528048 |title=Israeli authors urge ceasefire talks with Hamas |work=Reuters |date=24 September 2007 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006141436/http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/09/24/idUSL24528048 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21612240-both-sides-consume-fantasy-news-propaganda-war |title=Propaganda war |newspaper=The Economist |date=16 August 2014 |access-date=5 March 2010 |archive-date=14 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814210157/http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21612240-both-sides-consume-fantasy-news-propaganda-war |url-status=live }} and the country's only major left-leaning newspaper.{{cite journal|last=Cohen|first=I. Mateo|date=Spring 2022|title=The Right-Wing 'One-State Solution': Narrative, Proposals, and the Future of the Conflict|journal=Israel Studies|publisher=Indiana University Press|volume=27|issue=1|pages=132–155|doi=10.2979/israelstudies.27.1.06 |jstor=10.2979/israelstudies.27.1.06|s2cid=247621415 }} The paper opposes retaining Israeli control over the Palestinian territories and consistently supports peace initiatives.Israel — Hebrew- and English-Language Media Guide, p. 14 The Haaretz editorial line is supportive of weaker elements in Israeli society, such as sex workers, foreign laborers, Israeli Arabs, Ethiopian immigrants, and Russian immigrants.

In 2006, the BBC said that Haaretz takes a moderate stance on foreign policy and security.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4969714.stm |title=The press in Israel |work=BBC News |date=8 May 2006 |access-date=13 February 2014 |archive-date=2 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090402011145/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4969714.stm |url-status=live }} David Remnick in The New Yorker described Haaretz as "easily the most liberal newspaper in Israel", its ideology as left-wing and its temper as "insistently oppositional".{{cite news |last=Remnick |first=David |title=The Dissenters |url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/28/110228fa_fact_remnick |access-date=12 October 2012 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=28 February 2011 |author-link=David Remnick |archive-date=17 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017003344/http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/28/110228fa_fact_remnick |url-status=live }} According to Ira Sharkansky, Haaretz{{'}}s op-ed pages are open to a variety of opinions.{{cite book |last=Sharkansky |first=Ira |author-link=Ira Sharkansky |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dlhmWNcqlrAC&pg=PA43 |title=Governing Israel: Chosen People, Promised Land, & Prophetic Tradition |publisher=Transaction Publishers |location=New Brunswick, New Jersey |year=2005 |page=43 |isbn=978-0-7658-0277-4 |access-date=27 September 2020 |archive-date=24 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124131843/https://books.google.com/books?id=dlhmWNcqlrAC&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }} J. J. Goldberg, the editor of the American The Jewish Daily Forward, describes Haaretz as "Israel's most vehemently anti-settlement daily paper".{{cite news |url=http://forward.com/articles/104263/are-religious-soldiers-to-blame-for-alleged-abuse/? |title=Are Religious Soldiers To Blame for Alleged Abuse? |first=J. J. |last=Goldberg |author-link=J.J. Goldberg |newspaper=The Forward |date=3 April 2009 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006084833/http://forward.com/articles/104263/are-religious-soldiers-to-blame-for-alleged-abuse/ |url-status=live }} Stephen Glain of The Nation described Haaretz as "Israel's liberal beacon", citing its editorials voicing opposition to the occupation, the discriminatory treatment of Arab citizens, and the mindset that led to the Second Lebanon War. A 2003 study in The International Journal of Press/Politics concluded that Haaretz{{'}}s reporting of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict was more favorable to Israelis than to Palestinians but less so than that of The New York Times.{{cite journal |title=Attempted Objectivity: An Analysis of the New York Times and Ha'aretz and their Portrayals of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict |journal=The International Journal of Press/Politics |date=September 2003 |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=114–120 |doi=10.1177/1081180X03256999 |author=Matt Viser|s2cid=145209853 }} In 2016, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, wrote: "I like a lot of the people at Haaretz, and many of its positions, but the cartoonish anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism can be grating."[https://www.jta.org/2016/08/02/news-opinion/united-states/journalist-jeffrey-goldberg-under-fire-after-tweeting-he-will-stop-reading-haaretz Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg stirs storm after tweeting he might stop reading Haaretz] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311201446/https://www.jta.org/2016/08/02/news-opinion/united-states/journalist-jeffrey-goldberg-under-fire-after-tweeting-he-will-stop-reading-haaretz |date=11 March 2018 }}, JTA, 2 August 2016[https://www.ft.com/content/252f849c-75a5-11e6-bf48-b372cdb1043a Amos Schocken, third-generation proprietor of Ha'aretz] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311142142/https://www.ft.com/content/252f849c-75a5-11e6-bf48-b372cdb1043a |date=11 March 2018 }}, Financial Times, John Reed, 3 October 2016

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In 2022, a TGI survey found that Haaretz was the newspaper with the third largest readership in Israel, with an exposure rate of 4.7%, below Israel Hayom's rate of 31% and {{Lang|he-latn|Yedioth Ahronoth}}'s 23.9%.

Haaretz uses smaller headlines and print than other mass circulation papers in Israel. Less space is devoted to pictures, and more to political analysis. Opinion columns are generally written by regular commentators rather than guest writers. Its editorial pages are considered influential among government leaders.{{cite journal |last=Beckerman |first=Gal |date=September–October 2005 |title=Disengaged |journal=Columbia Journalism Review |url=http://cjrarchives.org/issues/2005/5/beckerman.asp |access-date=21 June 2007 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007125902/http://cjrarchives.org/issues/2005/5/beckerman.asp |archive-date=7 October 2007}} Apart from the news, Haaretz publishes feature articles on social and environmental issues, as well as book reviews, investigative reporting, and political commentary. In 2008, the newspaper itself reported a paid subscribership of 65,000, daily sales of 72,000 copies, and 100,000 on weekends. The English edition has a subscriber base of 15,000.{{cite news |url=http://www.thenation.com/article/haaretz-israels-liberal-beacon |title=Ha'aretz, Israel's Liberal Beacon |author=Stephen Glain |work=The Nation |date=24 September 2007 |access-date=13 February 2014 |archive-date=7 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107011841/https://www.thenation.com/article/haaretz-israels-liberal-beacon/ |url-status=dead }}

Despite its historically relatively low circulation in Israel, Haaretz has for many years been described as Israel's most influential daily newspaper.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-23-wr-14090-story.html |title=Next Step: 4 Israelis Jostle to Lead Likud Out of Wilderness |last=Parks |first=Michael |date=23 March 1993 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=7 April 2012 |archive-date=13 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313084438/http://articles.latimes.com/1993-03-23/news/wr-14090_1_israel-s-likud-party |url-status=live }}{{cite book |last=Karpin |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Karpin |title=The Bomb in the Basement |year=2006 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |isbn=0-7432-6595-5 |page=ix |url=https://archive.org/details/bombinbasementho00karp|url-access=registration }}{{cite book |last=Yakira |first=Elhanan |title=Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust: Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the Delegitimation of Israel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=of9JuUYLOZoC&pg=PA210 |year=2010 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-11110-2 |page=210}} In 2006, it exposed a scandal regarding professional and ethical standards at Israeli hospitals.{{cite journal |last=Rabinovich-Einy |first=Orna |title=Beyond IDR: Resolving Hospital Disputes and Healing Ailing Organizations Through ITR |journal=St. John's Law Review |date=Winter 2007 |volume=81 |number=1/2 |page=173|id={{ProQuest|216778117}} }}{{subscription required}} Its readership includes members of Israel's intelligentsia and members of its political and economic elites.{{cite book |first1=Idith |last1=Zertal |first2=Chaya|last2=Galai |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bQEAmjk4Wh0C&pg=PA218 |title=Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2005 |page=218|isbn=9781139446624 }}{{cite book |first1=Elizabeth |last1=Poole |first2=John E. |last2=Richardson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-zcIlDfHfn0C&pg=PA143 |title=Muslims and the News Media |publisher=I.B. Tauris |year=2006 |page=143|isbn=9781845111724 }} In 1999, surveys showed that Haaretz readership had above-average education, income, and wealth, and that most were Ashkenazi Jews.{{cite book |first1=Dan |last1=Caspi |author-link=Dan Caspi |first2=Yehiel |last2=Limor |title=The IN/Outsiders: Mass Media in Israel |publisher=Hampton Press |year=1999 |page=79}} Some have said that Haaretz functions in Israel much as The New York Times does in the United States, as a newspaper of record.{{cite book |last=Manji |first=Irshad |author-link=Irshad Manji |title=The Trouble with Islam Today|year=2003 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |isbn=0-312-32700-5 |page=75 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=odvcBMbgpe0C&pg=PA75}}{{cite journal |jstor=30133876 |title=Muting the Alarm over the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: 'The New York Times' versus 'Haaretz', 2000–06 |last=Slater |first=Jerome |journal=International Security |volume=32 |pages=84–120 |number=2 |date=Fall 2007 | doi = 10.1162/isec.2007.32.2.84 |s2cid=57569122 |quote=There is a widespread consensus in Israel and elsewhere that Haaretz is Israel's best and most prestigious newspaper—in effect, the Israeli equivalent of the New York Times.}}{{subscription required}} In 2007, Shmuel Rosner, Haaretz's former U.S. correspondent, told The Nation, "people who read it are better educated and more sophisticated than most, but the rest of the country doesn't know it exists." According to Hanoch Marmari, a former Haaretz editor, the newspaper has lost its political influence in Israel because it became "detached" from the country's political life.{{cite news |url=http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/427/479.html |script-title=he:עורך 'הארץ' לשעבר: 'הארץ' איבד את מעמדו הציבורי |language=he |trans-title=Former Haaretz editor: Haaretz has lost its public standing |publisher=nrg Maariv |date=8 January 2013 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=29 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029184640/http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/427/479.html |url-status=live }}

Andrea Levin, executive director of the pro-Israel Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), said Haaretz was doing "damage to the truth" and sometimes making serious factual errors without correcting them.{{cite news|last=Ross |first=Oakland |title=News and views that inspire love or kindle hatred |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/2008/10/05/news_and_views_that_inspire_love_or_kindle_hatred.html |newspaper=Toronto Star |date=5 October 2008 |access-date=13 February 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204064540/http://www.thestar.com/article/512004--news-and-views-that-inspire-love-or-kindle-hatred |archive-date=4 February 2013 |url-status=live }} According to The Jerusalem Post, Haaretz editor-in-chief David Landau said at the 2007 Limmud conference in Moscow that he had told his staff not to report on criminal investigations against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in order to promote Sharon's 2004–2005 Gaza disengagement plan.{{cite news |author=Haviv Rettig Gur |author-link=Haviv Rettig |url=http://www.jpost.com/Features/Limmud-diary-Creme-de-la-Kremlin |title=Limmud diary: Creme de la Kremlin? |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |date=25 October 2007 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006102614/http://www.jpost.com/Features/Limmud-diary-Creme-de-la-Kremlin |url-status=live }} In April 2017, Haaretz published an op-ed by a staff writer that said the Israeli religious right was worse than Hezbollah.{{cite news |title=Paper draws fire for op-ed calling national religious worse than Hezbollah |url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/paper-draws-fire-for-op-ed-calling-national-religious-worse-than-hezbollah/ |access-date=6 November 2024 |work=Times of Israel |date=13 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413140128/http://www.timesofisrael.com/paper-draws-fire-for-op-ed-calling-national-religious-worse-than-hezbollah/ |archive-date=13 April 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Boker |first1=Ran |title=Haaretz slammed for article calling national religious 'worse than Hezbollah' |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-4948707%2C00.html |access-date=6 November 2024 |work=Ynetnews |date=13 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414094212/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4948707,00.html |archive-date=14 April 2017}} Condemnation followed, including from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin, and other government ministers and MPs, as well as from Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog.{{cite news |title=Haaretz op-ed draws condemnations across the political spectrum |url=http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=41743 |access-date=6 November 2024 |work=Israel Hayom |date=14 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414164054/http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=41743|archive-date=14 April 2017}}

On 31 October 2024, Haaretz{{'s}} publisher Amos Schocken made remarks during a speech at a Haaretz conference in London, criticising the Netanyahu government for allegedly imposing an apartheid regime on the Palestinian population and referring to "Palestinian freedom fighters that Israel calls terrorists." In response, the Israeli interior, education, diaspora ministries severed ties with Haaretz while the Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi advocated a boycott of the newspaper covering all government bodies and employees.{{cite web |last1=MacDonald |first1=Alex |title=Israel targets Haaretz after publisher calls Palestinians 'freedom fighters' |url=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-targets-haaretz-after-publisher-calls-palestinians-freedom-fighters |website=Middle East Eye |access-date=6 November 2024 |date=1 November 2024 |archive-date=9 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241109120026/https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-targets-haaretz-after-publisher-calls-palestinians-freedom-fighters |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Winer |first1=Stuart |title=Haaretz in government crosshairs after publisher calls terrorists ‘freedom fighters’ |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/haaretz-in-government-crosshairs-after-publisher-calls-terrorists-freedom-fighters/ |access-date=6 November 2024 |work=Times of Israel |date=31 October 2024 |archive-date=9 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241109104551/https://www.timesofisrael.com/haaretz-in-government-crosshairs-after-publisher-calls-terrorists-freedom-fighters/ |url-status=live }} Schocken distanced himself from parts of comments the next day, saying that "the use of terrorism is not legitimate". By 4 November, the newspaper had received hundreds of cancellation and subscription termination requests, and a decline in advertising revenue. Several ministries had requested to cancel their subscriptions, with the Israeli foreign ministry cancelling 90 subscriptions.{{cite news |last1=Wertheim |first1=David |title=Hundreds of cancellations at Haaretz following Schocken's comments |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-827415 |access-date=6 November 2024 |work=Jerusalem Post |date=4 November 2024 |archive-date=4 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241104033055/https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-827415 |url-status=live }}

Haaretz operates both Hebrew and English language websites. The two sites offer up-to-the-minute breaking news, live Q&A sessions with newsmakers from Israel, the Palestinian territories and elsewhere, and blogs covering a range of political standpoints and opinions. The two sites fall under the supervision of Lior Kodner, the head of digital media for the Haaretz Group. Individually, Simon Spungin is the editor of Haaretz.com (English) and Avi Scharf is the editor of Haaretz.co.il (Hebrew).{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.co.il/ |script-title=he:הארץ |language=he |trans-title=Haaretz |access-date=15 July 2022 |archive-date=30 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090730193302/http://www.haaretz.co.il/ |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/ |title=Haaretz Daily Newspaper Israel |access-date=15 July 2022 |archive-date=23 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923090815/https://www.haaretz.com// |url-status=live }}

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The Haaretz building is on Schocken Street in south Tel Aviv.

The former Haaretz building of 1932–1973 was designed by architect Joseph Berlin. It was demolished in the early 1990s, with only part of the facade preserved and integrated into the new building at 56, Maza Street.

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• Ruth Almog – literature, publicist
• Merav Arlosoroff – economy affairs columnist (in The Marker)
• Avraham Balaban – Tel Aviv and cultural history publicist
• Zvi Barel – Middle East affair commentator
• Omer Benjakob - technology, disinformation, Wikipedia
• Aluf Benn – editor-in-chief
• Bradley Burston – political columnist{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/haaretz-com-s-bradley-burston-wins-award-for-mideast-writing-1.197350 |title=Haaretz.com's Bradley Burston wins award for Mideast writing |newspaper=Haaretz |date=15 September 2006 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007130754/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/haaretz-com-s-bradley-burston-wins-award-for-mideast-writing-1.197350 |url-status=live }}
• Saggi Cohen – food columnist
• Lily Galili{{cite news |date=4 January 2013 |last=Zur Glozman |first=Masha |url=http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/the-million-russians-that-changed-israel-to-its-core.premium-1.491885 |title=The million Russians that Changed Israel to its core |work=Haaretz |access-date=10 February 2013 |archive-date=1 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201074206/http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/the-million-russians-that-changed-israel-to-its-core.premium-1.491885 |url-status=live }}
• Doram Gaunt – food columnist
• Avirama Golan
• Ehud Barak
• Ehud Olmert
• Zehava Galon
• Amos Harel – military correspondent
• Israel Harel – columnist
• Danna Harman – feature writer
• Amira Hass – Ramallah-based Palestinian affairs correspondent.
• Avi Issacharoff – military correspondent
• Uri Klein – film critic
• Yitzhak Laor – publicist
• Alex Levac – photo columnist
• Gideon Levy – Palestinian affairs columnist
• Amir Mandel – classic music critic
• Amir Oren – military affairs
• Sammy Peretz – economic affairs columnist (in The Marker)
• Anshel Pfeffer – political and military affairs
• Tsafrir Rinat – environmental issues
• Guy Rolnick – economic affairs editorialist (of The Marker)
• Doron Rosenblum – satirist, publicist
• Ruth Schuster,{{Cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/WRITER-1.4968353|title=Ruth Schuster - Haaretz Com|access-date=3 May 2021|archive-date=4 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504052736/https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/WRITER-1.4968353|url-status=live}} Senior Editor for archaeology and science at the Haaretz English Edition.
• Tom Segev – historian, political commentator
• Ben Shalev – popular music critic
• Nehemia Shtrasler – economic affairs, publicist
• Simon Spungin – Managing Editor, English Edition
• Gadi Taub – political commentary
• Amir Tibon
• Yossi Verter – political reporter
• Esther Zandberg – architecture
• Benny Ziffer – literature, publicist

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File:PASSENGERS SEATED IN ONE OF THE PALESTINE AIRWAYS "SCION" PLANES DURING FLIGHT. נוסעים במהלך טיסה של חברת "נתיבי אויר ארץ ישראל".D2-055.jpg Short Scion, 1939. The second passenger on the left is reading Haaretz.]]

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• Nathan Alterman (1910–1970)
• Moshe Arens – columnist
• Ehud Asheri{{cite news |last=Carmel |first=Asaf |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/haaretz-journalist-ehud-asheri-dies-of-cancer-at-57-1.240574 |title=Haaretz journalist Ehud Asheri dies of cancer at 57 |work=Haaretz |date=3 March 2008 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007141153/http://www.haaretz.com/news/haaretz-journalist-ehud-asheri-dies-of-cancer-at-57-1.240574 |url-status=live }}
• Gidi Avivi – popular music critic{{cite news |last=Avivi |first=Gidi |author-link=Gidi Avivi |url=http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/irresistible-look-at-a-master-1.64340 |title=Irresistible look at a master |work=Haaretz |date=18 July 2001 |access-date=10 February 2013 |archive-date=23 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523142339/https://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/irresistible-look-at-a-master-1.64340 |url-status=live }}
• Meron Benvenisti (1934–2020) – political columnist
• Noam Ben Ze'ev – music critic
• Yoram Bronowski (1948–2001) – literary critic, TV critic
• Arie Caspi{{cite news |author=Orna Coussin |url=http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/a-compelling-lesson-1.229741 |title=A compelling lesson |date=21 September 2007 |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007101643/http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/a-compelling-lesson-1.229741 |url-status=live }} Review of {{cite book |title=Hazakim al halashim (Strong Over the Weak) |author=Arie Caspi |publisher=Xargol/Am Oved}}
• Daniel Dagan
• Akiva Eldar – diplomatic affairs analyst{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/news-in-brief-1.230512 |title=News in Brief |newspaper=Haaretz |date=5 October 2007 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007114935/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/news-in-brief-1.230512 |url-status=live }}
• Amos Elon (1926–2009) – correspondent, editor, writer
• Boaz Evron
• Michael Handelzalts – theater critic, columnist
• Sayed Kashua – satiric columnist, author
• Jerrold Kessel
• Tami Litani
• Aviva Lori{{cite news |author=Ofer Aderet |url=http://www.haaretz.com/culture/.premium-1.551536 |title=Aviva Lori, veteran writer for Haaretz Magazine, passes away |newspaper=Haaretz |date=9 October 2013 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=23 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523142345/https://www.haaretz.com/culture/.premium-1.551536 |url-status=live }}
• Yoel Marcus – political commentator, publicist{{cite news |last=Carmel |first=Asaf |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/fellow-journalists-to-honor-haaretz-commentator-yoel-marcus-in-eilat-1.232876 |title=Fellow journalists to honor Haaretz commentator Yoel Marcus in Eilat |work=Haaretz |date=9 November 2007 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007100036/http://www.haaretz.com/news/fellow-journalists-to-honor-haaretz-commentator-yoel-marcus-in-eilat-1.232876 |url-status=live }}
• Yossi Melman – former intelligence correspondent
• Natasha Mozgovaya – former U.S. correspondent
• Ran Reznick – health issues{{cite news |author=Asaf Carmel |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/917773.html |title=Haaretz reporters Klein, Reznick win Sokolov Award for Journalism |newspaper=Haaretz |date=28 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070802091348/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/917773.html |archive-date=2 August 2007}}
• Daniel Rogov – food and wine critic
• Danny Rubinstein – former Arab affairs analyst
• Gideon Samet – political commentator{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/the-long-goodbye-1.248989 |title=The long goodbye |author=Aviva Lori |newspaper=Haaretz |date=3 July 2008 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=7 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007082727/http://www.haaretz.com/the-long-goodbye-1.248989 |url-status=live }}
• Yossi Sarid (1940–2015) – politician, publicist
• Ze'ev Schiff – military and defense analyst
• Daniel Ben Simon{{cite news |last=Ben Simon |first=Daniel |author-link=Daniel Ben-Simon |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/daniel-ben-simon-why-i-m-leaving-journalism-for-politics-1.247790 |title=Daniel Ben-Simon: Why I'm leaving journalism for politics |work=Haaretz |date=13 June 2008 |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=9 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209003523/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/daniel-ben-simon-why-i-m-leaving-journalism-for-politics-1.247790 |url-status=live }}
• Ruth Sinai – social welfare and humanitarian issues
• Ze'ev Segal – law
• Ari Shavit – political columnist{{cite news |title=No Man's Land: The idea of a city disappears |author=Ari Shavit |magazine=The New Yorker |date=9 December 2002 |url=http://www.indopubs.com/is4.html |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924034517/http://www.indopubs.com/is4.html |url-status=live }}{{failed verification|date=October 2014}}
• Yair Sheleg – Jewish religious affairs{{cite web |author=Elan Ezrachi, Ph.D. |title=Jewish Renaissance and Renewal in Israel |url=http://www.nathancummings.org/jewish/special2.htm |publisher=Dorot and Nathan Cummings Foundations |date=c. 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040426023832/http://www.nathancummings.org/jewish/special2.htm |archive-date=26 April 2004 }}
• Nadav Shragai
• Ze'ev Sternhell – political commentary
• Benjamin Tammuz (1919–1989) - literary critic, writer, editor of the literary supplement
• Pavel Wolberg – photographer
• Merav Michaeli

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• {{cite book|last1=Merrill|first1=John C.|author-link=John C. Merrill|first2=Harold A.|last2=Fisher|title=The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers|url=https://archive.org/details/worldsgreatdaili0000merr|url-access=registration|date=1980|ref=pp 151–55}}
• {{cite news |url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/28/110228fa_fact_remnick |title=The Dissenters – Haaretz prides itself on being the conscience of Israel. Does it have a future? |first=David |last=Remnick |author-link=David Remnick |magazine=The New Yorker |date=28 February 2011}}
• {{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/opinion/the-people-vs-haaretz.html |title=The People vs. Haaretz |first=Shmuel |last=Rosner |author-link=Shmuel Rosner |date=11 May 2017 |work=The New York Times }}
• {{cite news |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/problems-at-israel-s-haaretz-newspaper-without-a-country-a-599005.html |title=Problems at Israel's Haaretz: Newspaper Without a Country |first=Christoph |last=Schult|work=Der Spiegel |date=31 December 2008}}

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• {{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/about-haaretz-1.63277 |title=About Haaretz |work=Haaretz |date=12 July 2001}}
• {{cite web|url=https://web.nli.org.il/sites/JPress/English/Pages/HaAretz.aspx|title=Archive of Hebrew edition, 1918–2019}}

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