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Makor Rishon
Blue and White leaders Benny Gantz (right) and Yair Lapid speak during a campaign event in Kiryat Ono, on August 7, 2019. (Flash90)
December 9, 2019, 4:25 pm
Lapid gives up rotation deal with Gantz in bid to boost Blue and White
Abandoning pact that could have made him prime minister, party No. 2 says the faction is united behind its leader as new elections come into focus
By Raoul Wootliff
Blue and White party chairmen Benny Gantz speaks a conference of the Makor Rishon newspaper at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, December 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 8, 2019, 11:10 pm
Gantz: Elections can still be averted, but no forgiveness for corruption
Blue and White chief again rejects Netanyahu’s push for direct vote for premiership as ‘spin’; says it’s time to let go of political camps for greater good
By TOI staff
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a conference of the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon in Tel Aviv, July 4, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
July 4, 2017, 7:07 pm
Netanyahu burnishes right-wing bona fides at newspaper conference
PM tells Makor Rishon confab he does not need to be bolstered from the right; attacks media as ‘gloom-and-doom industry’
By Sue Surkes
Sheldon Adelson attends the Republican Jewish Coalition spring leadership meeting at The Venetian Las Vegas on March 29, 2014 (Photo credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images/AFP)
January 5, 2016, 6:03 pm
Adelson ‘never’ tells Israel Hayom staff what to write
Casino magnate says he rarely contacts editor of his paper, widely seen as mouthpiece for PM Netanyahu
By Sue Surkes
View of residential buildings, in the central Israeli town of Lod. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
September 25, 2015, 5:55 pm
Lod mayor: City’s Arabs could’ve ‘controlled only airport’
Coexistence group calls on Yair Revivo to retract statement that treats town’s Arab population as a security threat
By JTA
Uri Elitzur, the Editor of Makor Rishon passed away Thursday at age 68 after battling cancer (photo credit: YouTube screen grab)
May 22, 2014, 2:50 pm
Leading pro-settler journalist Uri Elitzur dies at 68
Editor of Makor Rishon and close Netanyahu associate succumbs to cancer
By Adiv Sterman
US billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson (file photo credit: Flash90/File)
April 1, 2014, 11:29 pm
Is Adelson imperiling Israeli media?
The Jewish American casino magnate is buying up another newspaper in an already crowded market space
By Ben Sales
Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam. (Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)
March 30, 2014, 7:25 pm
Court approves Adelson purchase of Makor Rishon
Jewish billionaire’s Israel Hayom company to pay $4.85 million and employ 95% of right-wing paper’s workers
By Adiv Sterman
Economics and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett addresses the Knesset plenum, March 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 30, 2014, 2:21 pm
Bennett lashes Israel Hayom over Makor Rishon bid
Economy minister compares free daily to Pravda, fears national-religious paper will lose independence under Netanyahu-linked tycoon
By Yifa Yaakov
US billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson, in Jerusalem, 12 August 2007. photo credit: Flash90)
March 26, 2014, 7:25 pm
Adelson said to lead pack in bid for Maariv, Makor Rishon
Jewish billionaire, who owns the Israel Hayom free daily, places NIS 10 million bid for ailing newspapers
By Adiv Sterman
Maariv workers protest outside the former headquarters of the Hebrew newspaper in Tel Aviv (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash 90)
March 13, 2014, 8:19 am
Maariv daily founders as employees ‘put on leave’
The Hebrew newspaper cannot pay its debts; court-appointed trustee to manage company’s finances
By Aron Dónzis
A woman reads a copy of the daily newspaper Maariv (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 9, 2014, 6:21 am
Ailing Maariv newspaper skips Sunday edition
Cash-strapped daily, once one of the most popular in the country, seeks stay of proceedings against creditors
By TOI staff
A woman reads a copy of the daily newspaper Maariv (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 7, 2014, 8:31 am
Maariv newspaper may be up for sale again
Financially strapped daily, once one of the most popular media outlets in the nation, seeks stay of proceedings against creditors
By TOI staff
A woman reads a copy of the daily newspaper Maariv (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 12, 2013, 1:11 am
Maariv to lay off entire print staff
Some 50 employees expected to receive pink slip; newspaper HQ to be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
By TOI staff
An Israeli reads Maariv. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 9, 2013, 6:11 am
Cash-strapped Maariv will continue to be published for now
Negotiations between union representatives, management over planned cutbacks to resume Tuesday
By TOI staff
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