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The newspaper's editorial line was defined by Gershom Schocken , who was editor-in-chief between 1939 and 1990. Haaretz is owned by the Schocken family. The current editor and managing editor are (resp.) David Landau and Tami Litani, who replaced Hanoch Marmari and Yoel Esteron in April 2004.

In comparison to the other daily Hebrew newspapers, Maariv and Yediot Aharonot, Haaretz is relatively high brow, with longer articles, smaller print, less pictures and daily science and literature pages. Its views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict tend to be leftist, particularly noting the work of Amira Hass and, to a lesser extent, Gideon Levi. The position of the newspaper in Israel's religious spectrum is decidedly secular. Although space is often given to issues of social justice (exemplified by Ruth Sinai's frequent columns on this topic), the paper's editorial line on economical issues is primarily classical-liberal in the spirit of The EconomistFebruary 21 2004 The Economist is a weekly news and international affairs publication of The Economist Newspaper Limited in London. Subjects typically covered include international politics, business, finance, science and technology and the arts. The publ. It supports privatization, free-trade, reduction in welfare, lower taxes and strict fiscal practices.

Notable reporters and publicists in Haaretz:

• Amira HassAmira Hass (born 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Ha'aretz. She is especially famous for living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and reporting on events from the Palestinian perspective of the I - Israeli journalist, living in RamallahRamallah (Arabic: ) is a West Bank city of approximately 57,000 residents, which is currently under Palestinian Authority control. It is located about 15 kilometers (10 miles) north-west of Jerusalem. Ramallah was under Jordanian occupation from the 1948, mainly reports on Palestinian issues, won many prizes abroad
• Ari Shavit - journalist, publicist
• Amos Harel - military reporter
• Amir Oren - military reporter
• Baruch Kara - internal politics reporter
• Yossi SaridYossi Sarid (born October 24, 1940) is an Israeli left wing politician. He is currently a Knesset member of Meretz- Yachad party. He has M. degree in Political Science from New School for Social Research, New York. Before entering politics, he was journal - left wing politician, publicist
• Yoel Markus - publicist
• Zeev Schiff - military and security affairs commentator
• Nehamia Shtrasler - economy reporter, publicist
• Gideon Levi - Palestinian affairs journalist
• Danny Rubinstein - political affairs journalist
• Avi Ratzon - sports editor, sport publicist, soccer commantator
• Ron Kaufman , Aviv Lavi - basketball commantators

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• Amira HassAmira Hass (born 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Ha'aretz. She is especially famous for living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and reporting on events from the Palestinian perspective of the I - Haaretz journalist
• List of Israeli newspapersThe following are some of the newspapers published in Israel. Most papers are published in Hebrew, but there are many published in many other languages. For example, there are many for Jews who have emigrated from other countries such as in Russian for th