Maariv (newspaper)

Maariv

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner(s)	Shlomo Ben Zvi
Editor	Shlomo Ben Zvi
Founded	1948
Political alignment	Political center
Language	Hebrew
Headquarters	Tel Aviv, Israel
Circulation	about 90,000
Official website	www.nrg.co.il

Maariv House at the Maariv intersection in Tel Aviv

Maariv (Hebrew: מַעֲרִיב‎, lit. Evening) is a mainstream^[1] Hebrew-language daily newspaper published in Israel. It is second in sales after Yedioth Ahronoth and third in readership after Yedioth Ahronoth and Israel HaYom. In a TGI survey for the first half of 2012, Maariv's market share was 11.9 percent.^[2]

Since August 2011, Maariv's editor in chief is Nir Hefetz.

Apart from the daily newspaper and its supplements, the Maariv media group (Ma'ariv Holdings Ltd) has a chain of local newspapers with a national scale distribution, a magazines division, and a semi-independent website called NRG, which includes much of the print content. The company's shares are listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange since 1990 (TASE: MARV).

History

Ma'ariv was founded in 1948 by former Yediot Aharonot journalists led by Dr. Ezriel Carlebach who became Maariv's first editor-in-chief. It was the most widely read newspaper in Israel in its first twenty years.^[1]

For many years, the Nimrodi family held a controlling stake in Maariv and Yaakov Nimrodi served as its chairman. In March 2010, Zaki Rakib bought a 50% share from Israel Land Development Company and Ofer Nimrodi, bringing new energy and much needed cash infusion to the newspaper which has been losing millions of NIS a year since 2004. Rakib became the new chairman.^[3] However, it was announced in March 2011 that Nochi Dankner was to take control of Ma'ariv through his Discount Investment. On March 25 Discount transferred 20 million NIS to the struggling firm.^[4] On September 11, Maariv's chairman Dani Yakobi issued a statement saying that he will sell the newspaper's printing equipment do be able do pay September salaries. On September 7, Globes announced that Dankner had reached an agreement with Shlomo Ben-Zvi, publisher of Makor Rishon to buy out the newspaper ^[5] However the deal faltered, and Mr. Dankner turned to the court on September 23 for a stay of proceedings process. The court, in turn, appointed a trustee, Shlomo Nass, who ran the newspaper and searched for a buyer. During the following weeks the workers waged a campaign against IDB and Mr. Dankner, demanding he honor his obligations to them and pays their salaries, pensions and severance package in full.

Maariv workers marching towards the IDB offices in Tel Aviv, September 2012

In early November the trustee sold the newspaper to Mr. Ben Zvi without the debts or the workers. Ben Zvi kept a fraction of the journalists and commenced a partial convergence process between Maariv and Makor Rishon under his company, Makor Rishon Hatzofe Hameuchad.

As of January 2013, the company Maariv Modiin Ltd. no longer operates Maariv, and until its scheduled closure it will be operated by the court appointed trustee.

Political orientation

Ma'ariv is associated with Israel's political center and has been critical of Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government.^[6]

Moshe Arens, in a Haaretz opinion piece penned in 2012, wrote that the owner of Ma'ariv had resolved a few years earlier to steer the newspaper leftward, "forsaking the right-wing readership that was loyal to it for years."^[7]

Supplements

• Weekdays:
  • Hamagazine - Daily Magazine, including culture and entertainment, crosswords, television and radio listings. Used to include opinions
  • Asakim - Financial section
  • Sport section
• Tuesday
  • Signon - Home Magazine
• Wednesday
  • Signon - Fashion Magazine

• Friday
  • Musafshabat - In-depth political analysis and commentary
  • Sofshavua - Weekend magazine
  • Journal - Culture and entertainment, TV and radio listings
  • Asakim - financial magazine
  • At - YOU, women's magazine
  • A local affiliated weekly newspaper, depending on the region

Notable journalists

Present

• Menachem Ben – Literature critic, publicist
• Yehonatan Geffen – Columnist
• Mordechai Haimovich – Magazine writer
• Kalman Liebskind - Journalist and columnist
• Avi Ratzon – Sport commentator
• Ruvik Rosenthal – Hebrew language columnist
• Erel Segal – Columnist
• Ben-Dror Yemini – Publicist (politics)

Past

Dahn Ben-Amotz

• Dahn Ben Amotz – Humor, culture, gossip. Deceased
• Kobi Arieli – Satirist
• Ben Caspit – Political and diplomatic analyst
• Amnon Dankner - Chief editor
• Jacob Farkas ("Ze'ev") – Cartoonist. Deceased
• Kariel Gardosh ("Dosh") – Cartoonist, creator of the "Srulik" ("little Israel") character. Deceased
• Dudu Geva – Humor and satire. Deceased
• Jacky Hugi – Arab and Middle East correspondent
• Ephraim Kishon – Humor and satire. Deceased
• Tommy Lapid – Editor, turned to politics and returned to the paper as a publicist. Deceased
• Ron Maiberg – Columnist
• Dan Margalit – Political columnist
• Ofer Shelach – Political, military and diplomatic analyst, sport commentator
• Meir Shnitzer – TV and film critic
• Gal Uchovsky^[8]

Online version

NRG Maariv is the online edition of the newspaper. While most of the content on the website comes from the print edition, some of the material is written exclusively for the web edition.

References

External links

• NRG (Hebrew)
• Maariv Holdings Ltd. – BusinessWeek

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