Israeli press

A screenshot of Nasser Laham during a video hearing to extend his remand, July 13, 2025. (Hagar Shezaf)

My journalist friend was arrested by Israel. He won’t be the last

The harassment of Nasser Laham and others like Israel Frey sends a message that neither Palestinian nor Jewish journalists who criticize Israel are safe.

By Meron Rapoport July 18, 2025

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the media in Kfar Maccabiah, Ramat Gan on February 21, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Netanyahu to be indicted on bribery charges. Here’s what you need to know

The indictment would mark the first time in Israeli history that a sitting prime minister has been charged with a crime. By +972 Magazine Staff Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced his intention to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday on criminal offenses in all three corruption cases against him. The attorney general decided to charge…

By +972 Magazine February 28, 2019

Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, the owner the pro-Bibi newspaper, Israel Hayom, is seen embracing Benjamin Netanyahu. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Attacking Israeli journalists on Facebook is ‘fun’

Netanyahu tells foreign journalists that using social media to attack local reporters is ‘the most entertaining.’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke honestly, perhaps for the first time, about what has been driving his recent attacks on Israeli journalists during a conference for members of the foreign press in Jerusalem Tuesday evening. During the Q&A session, one…

By Edo Konrad December 20, 2016

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Hadash Chairman Ayman Odeh. Odeh was elected to first place in the united Arab slate. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Israeli media coverage: An election with no Arabs?

What does it say about the mainstream media when it took over two months for one of Israel’s most well-read newspapers to include a photo of a non-Jew in its special elections coverage section? Oren Persico / ‘The 7th Eye‘ On Monday morning, six weeks before the upcoming elections, the Israel Hayom daily finally began publishing the…

By The Seventh Eye February 3, 2015

'Haaretz' newspaper (Photo: Hmbr/Wikimedia/CC)

A reluctant reader: ‘Haaretz,’ paywalls and liberal Zionism

One Palestinian journalist’s meditation on being forced to pay for Haaretz, the only paper he can rely on, but one that also espouses a nationalist ideology he cannot accept. ‘I’m fated to be a reluctant reader — and a reluctant citizen.’ By Hakim Bishara It’s morning and I desperately need the news. Where I live,…

By +972 Magazine April 29, 2013