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Article: Newspapers and Print Media: Israel
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- Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
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NEWSPAPERS AND PRINT MEDIA: ISRAEL
historical, political and sociological overview of the israeli printed press.
The Israeli press is a combined product of a nation-building ideology, an elitist-colonial concept of the media, and a more recent industrial market-oriented climate. The Zionist ideology has steered the Hebrew press since its emergence in Palestine in 1863. When the State of Israel was established in 1948, the press was vibrantly partisan. Most newspapers belonged to political parties, and only a few were privately owned. They included sixteen dailies
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thirteen in Hebrew, one in English, and two in German
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serving a population of 650,000. Newspapers owned by ...