Outlet profile

Ynetnews (Opinion)

Israeli center-left

Owned byYedioth Ahronoth (Yedioth Communications Ltd.), controlled by the Mozes family; Arnon Mozes holds majority voting rights

FundingPrimarily advertising revenue, as part of the Yedioth Media Group, a large Israeli media conglomerate with print, digital, cable, and magazine holdings

On the administrationmixed

Background

Yedioth Ahronoth was founded in 1939 and has been owned and controlled by the Mozes family since shortly after its founding, making it one of Israel's longest-running family media dynasties. It grew into Israel's top-circulating paid newspaper, with weekday circulation around 300,000 and weekend circulation around 600,000. The Hebrew news website Ynet launched on June 6, 2000, becoming one of Israel's most-visited digital news properties. Ynetnews, the English-language version, was established in February 2005 in Tel Aviv with an initial staff of nine, originally targeting diaspora Jewish readers in the United States. Yedioth Ahronoth became embroiled in a significant political controversy in 2017 when secret recordings surfaced appearing to show negotiations between publisher Arnon Mozes and then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about trading favorable coverage for regulatory help against a rival outlet—a scandal that led to criminal investigations. Media bias assessors including Media Bias/Fact Check rate Ynetnews as left-center in its editorial orientation, with high marks for factual reporting. The opinion section publishes diverse viewpoints, but many contributors are Israeli journalists and analysts who tend to approach U.S. policy through the lens of Israeli security interests, leading to nuanced and sometimes critical coverage of U.S. decisions affecting the region.

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Profile compiled 2026-09-03; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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