Editing Haaretz (section)

=== Readership and reception ===
Despite its historically relatively low circulation in Israel, ''Haaretz'' has for many years been described as Israel's most influential daily newspaper.<ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> In 2006, it exposed a scandal regarding professional and ethical standards at Israeli hospitals.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Its readership includes members of Israel's intelligentsia and members of its political and economic elites.<ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref> In 1999, surveys showed that ''Haaretz'' readership had above-average education, income, and wealth, and that most were [[Ashkenazi Jews]].<ref name=glazin/><ref>{{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}}</ref> Some have said that ''Haaretz'' functions in Israel much as ''[[The New York Times]]'' does in the United States, as a [[newspaper of record]].<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> In 2007, [[Shmuel Rosner]], ''Haaretz''<nowiki/>'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."<ref name=glazin/> 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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

[[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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> According to ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'', ''Haaretz'' editor-in-chief [[David Landau (journalist)|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 [[Israel's unilateral disengagement plan|Gaza disengagement plan]].<ref>{{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 }}</ref> In April 2017, ''Haaretz'' published an op-ed by a staff writer that said the Israeli religious right was worse than [[Hezbollah]].<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> Condemnation followed, including from Prime Minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], President [[Reuven Rivlin]], and other government ministers and [[List of members of the twentieth Knesset|MPs]], as well as from Opposition Leader [[Isaac Herzog]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

On 31 October 2024, ''Haaretz''{{'s}} publisher [[Amos Schocken]] made remarks during a speech at a ''Haaretz'' conference in London, criticising the [[Thirty-seventh government of Israel|Netanyahu government]] for allegedly imposing an [[Israeli Apartheid|apartheid regime]] on the Palestinian population and referring to "Palestinian freedom fighters that Israel calls terrorists." In response, the Israeli [[Ministry of Interior (Israel)|interior]], [[Ministry of Education (Israel)|education]], [[Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism|diaspora]] ministries severed ties with ''Haaretz'' while the [[Ministry of Communications (Israel)|Communications Minister]] [[Shlomo Karhi]] advocated a boycott of the newspaper covering all government bodies and employees.<ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref> 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 [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)|Israeli foreign ministry]] cancelling 90 subscriptions.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>