Haaretz

Haaretz relayed two single-provenance US intelligence stories about the Iran war in the 24 hours before Saturday's Islamabad talks opened. Its 10 April liveblog carried both the New York Times report that Iran cannot locate or recover the naval mines it laid in the Strait of Hormuz, and the Wall Street Journal assessment that Tehran has preserved roughly half its Ballistic missile and attack-drone stockpile despite Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth's "functionally destroyed" claim.

Founded in 1918 as Hadshot Ha'aretz, Haaretz is Israel's oldest continuously-published daily and its most reliably left-of-centre mainstream voice. It was owned by the Schocken family for most of the 20th century. The paper maintains a Hebrew edition, an English-language site, and a small Arabic edition, and is one of few Israeli broadsheets that regularly publishes Palestinian perspectives. Its investigative desk has produced long-running exposes of IDF conduct, settler violence, and defence-sector contracts, and it is often cited in international legal proceedings.

In the Iran war coverage, Haaretz has functioned as the English-language relay point for US intelligence stories that first surface in the NYT and WSJ. The pattern matters because today's two most load-bearing facts about the war, the minefield finding and the half-stockpile finding, are both single-provenance US-intelligence claims with no Israeli, Iranian, or European corroboration. Haaretz is where the non-American world often reads them first.