Haaretz

Haaretz is Israel's oldest continuously published newspaper, founded in 1918, and its most consistently Left-of-centre mainstream broadsheet. It was owned by the Schocken family for most of the twentieth century and publishes Hebrew, English and a limited Arabic edition.

It is one of a small number of Israeli newspapers that regularly carries Palestinian perspectives and investigative work critical of IDF Conduct, settlement policy and defence-sector procurement. Its military-affairs coverage is anchored by senior correspondent Amos Harel, whose sourcing inside the military-intelligence community gives the paper access to assessments official briefers will not put on the record.

That editorial independence from the security establishment is both a domestic liability, since the paper is frequently accused of disloyalty by the political right, and an international credential: its critical assessments carry weight with non-Israeli audiences and in international legal proceedings.