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11 unusual facts about Haaretz


Anarchists Against the Wall

Goldstein, who suffered brain damage, later told a Haaretz reporter: "I'm not depressed, but I feel an ongoing helplessness and disorientation.

Hudna

The concept of hudna was introduced to the conflict by the Israeli businessman Eyal Erlich in 2001, after seeing a hudna being declared in order to calm a feud in Jordan (cf. Haaretz, January 2, 2002); he and some others proposed, unsuccessfully, that Israel should suggest a mutual hudna as a prelude to a more lasting peace.

IDF Spokesperson's Unit

Large-circulation Israeli newspapers such as Yedioth Aharonoth, Maariv and Haaretz, as well as smaller newspapers, religious media, radio and internet sources, are all assisted by the Communications Branch on military and security matters.

Ilana Berger

She worked 7 years as a sports correspondent for Haaretz newspaper.

Itamar

In March 2012, Attorney Doron Nir Tzvi, legal advisor for the Committee of Samaria Residents, filed a complaint against Haaretz reporter Neri Livneh for describing the town as "especially aggressive" and claiming that "every two years a murderer comes out of there" in a television appearance.

Miriam Barukh Halfi

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Revava

They were ordered to issue an apology in Maariv and Haaretz newspapers and pay monetary compensation to the fund.

Ronald Levy

In an interview with Haaretz, Levy said that he was very surprised when he was notified by the prize committee about his victory.

Shahab-3

According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the French news agency Agence France-Presse which published pictures from the missile test reported that "Iran had apparently doctored photographs of missile test-firings and exaggerated the capabilities of the weapons" and that an additional missile was added afterwards to cover up a failed launch".

Tigerspike

Tigerspike has developed applications for many print media companies such as The Economist and Haaretz.


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Abdul Rahman al-Iryani

According to Yossi Melman of Haaretz, Dorit Mizrahi of the Mishpacha Magazine, and an article in the weekly HaOlam HaZeh, there are allegations that Al-Eryani was born Zekharia Hadad to a Yemenite Jewish family in Ibb.

Al-Fakhura school incident

According to Haaretz, a preliminary investigation found that the army's location system to pinpoint launch sites indicated that Hamas militants had launched a Qassam rocket into Israel from within a yard adjacent to the schoolyard.

David Azrieli

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that "What you won’t find on either the Azrieli foundation’s or company’s websites is that in 2010 the Azrieli Group apparently donated NIS 30,000 to Im Tirtzu" even though the Azrieli group "claims it has no political agenda."

Dollar Account affair

On March 15, 1977, Haaretz journalist Dan Margalit revealed that a joint dollar account in the names of Yitzhak and Leah Rabin, opened in a Washington, D.C., bank during Rabin's term of office as Israel ambassador (1968-73), was still open, in breach of Israeli law.

Gershom Schocken

In 1983 he was named International Editor of the Year Award by the World Press Review for Haaretz's "excellence in coverage of Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982".

Gideon Spiro

In July of that year the weekend supplement in Haaretz ran a long interview Spiro conducted with Hilde Schramm, daughter of former Nazi architect and Minister Albert Speer.

Lavinia Stan

She has been interviewed by newspapers such as El Pais (Spain), Haaretz (Israel), Embassy (Canada), MacLean's (Canada), The Concordian (Canada), L'Organe (Canada), National Journal (USA), România Liberă (Romania), Meridianul românesc, Terra Nova Magazine, as well as news agencies such as Reuters, Voice of America, radio stations such as Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and television stations such as Eastlink and the Polish Public TV.

Leah Rabin

Yitzhak became Prime Minister in 1974 following Golda Meir's resignation, but in 1977 a US Dollar bank account (illegal at that time in Israel) held by Leah was exposed by Haaretz journalist Dan Margalit.

Meir Shalev

1985 Bible Now, a book containing interpretations of Hebrew Bible stories from his personal point of view, which first appeared in the newspaper Haaretz.

October 2012 Yisraela Goldblum Fund poll

Within several hours of the Haaretz article, HonestReporting published a detailed critique of Levy’s presentation of the poll evidence.

Price tag policy

The rabbi of Har Brakha, Eliezer Melamed, who according to Chaim Levinson of Haaretz, is considered one of the more extreme settler rabbis, used his weekly column in the newspaper "Basheva" to denounce the price tag policy.

Sabri Jiryis

The arrest was kept secret by the Israeli military censor until an Acre municipal court judge accepted the newspaper Haaretz's request to lift the ban on publication of the affair.