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.

1 History
2 Notable articles
3 Criticism
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

Ynetnews was established in 2005 in Tel Aviv with the goal of providing the Jewish community and Israel-supporters 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 and Ynetnews is now headed by Jon 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] Notable articles

Some notable articles published by Ynetnews.

'She turns him into a pervert', 4 July 2006
'Madonna may cut ties with Kabbalah', 10 July 2006, mentions the 'Orthodox Jewish' 'Kabbalah' sect of which Madonna would be a member.

[edit] Criticism

Ynetnews is considered by some to have a secular post-Zionist outlook.^{[citation needed]} It is highly criticized in the Orthodox Jewish world for being virulently anti-Orthodox and anti-settler.^{[citation needed]} 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 a 'Haredi' organization -- as well as its discrimination, by singling out religious groups in criticisms of social injustice.^{[citation needed]} Due to this antagonism, in the Haredi world, Yedioth Ahronoth is often referred to by a play on words: Idiot Ahronoth.