| URL | http://web.israelinsider.com/ |
|---|---|
| Type of site | News, Commentary |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Current status | online |
Israelinsider, which describes itself as "Israel's Daily Newsmagazine", is an Israel-based daily online publication that provides news and commentary about Israel, including security and diplomatic issues, politics, culture, and global Jewish concerns, in particular anti-Semitism. Launched in 2001, and maintained six days a week (not updated on the Jewish Sabbath), the site has recently launched a companion site, , which features auto-updating filtered feeds and widgets from more than 100 Israel-related blogs and sites. The publication's revenue model is based primarily on reader contributions, advertising, and the licensing of Israel and Jewish history maps.
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Among the several hundred Israel Insider contributors since the publication's inception are notable contemporary commentators and political figures from Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, such as Benjamin Netanyahu, Melanie Phillips, John Podhoretz, Michael Freund, Michael Oren, Allan Dershowitz, M.J. Rosenberg, Barry Rubin, Uri Avnery, Jeff Jacoby, and Aaron Lerner as well as Christian Zionism pundits like Stan Goodenough and Ryan Jones.
Israel Insider is also the host for various Israel-related interactive special projects , such as Israel's Story in Maps, a collection of historical and contemporary maps of Israel [1] which is the primary cartographic resource used by Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Other interactive specials include "disputed territories zoom map" [2] , "disengagement days" timeline [3] and "Israel's Changing Borders" [4].
The magazine is suspicious of the American Presidential candidate Barack Obama and has written numerous articles scrutinising Obama and alleged contradictions in his past. They have shown a particular interest in claims that Obama is or was a Muslim, with an article in March 2008 titled "Is Barack Obama a Muslim wolf in Christian wool?"
According to Quantcast [5] , Israel Insider attracted between 30,000 and 70,000 monthly unique visitors in second quarter of 2008, the majority of whom come from North America, the UK and Israel. In the same period, the site attracted 40,000 to 100,000 monthly U.S. visits.
Israelinsider is edited by Reuven Koret and published by Koret Communications[6] , an Internet design and development company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, which produces a number of other Jewish and Israel media such as the Shmooze social network [7], ISRAEL21c[8], Jewish Content [9], the Jerusalem Post French Edition [10], Eretz Acheret literary magazine [11], the AVI CHAI Foundation [12], and others. Koret Communications is also involved in online projects for Birthright Israel [13]