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Do'ar HaYom
Do'ar HaYom (Hebrew: דואר היום, lit. 'Daily Mail') also known as the Palestine Daily Mail, was a Hebrew-language newspaper that ran in the British Mandate for Palestine from 1919 to 1936 and was edited by Itamar Ben-Avi.
At its peak, the daily circulation of the newspaper reached 7,000 copies.
Do'ar HaYom was founded in Jerusalem by a group of activists native to the region who opposed the growing Russian-Jewish influence on Haaretz, and believed there was little passion behind their journalism. Among the founders of the paper included Menachem Asher Sapir, Alexander Aaronsohn, Peretz Dagan-Kornfeld, Isaiah Karniel, and Oved Ben-Ami, Ashkenazi Jews, as well as Shlomo Kalmi, Yitzhak Avraham Abadi, and Avraham Elmalih, Sephardic Jews. The project was headed by Itamar Ben-Avi, the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who began his career in editing under his father's papers prior to World War I.
The goal of the paper was to serve as representation for old Sephardic families of Jerusalem, as well as for the second (younger) generation of the First Aliyah. The political orientation was center-right, and the newspaper found itself growing further apart from the growing movement of socialist beliefs in many leaders of the Old Yishuv.
The headquarters of Do'ar HaYom were located on HaSolel Street in Jerusalem, which later would be named after Havatzelet, another newspaper from the city.
Many journalists who would become quite influential in Israel began their careers at the newspaper, including Uri Keisari, who was their correspondant in Paris and editorial secretary, Oved Ben-Ami, who was a reporter in Petah Tikvah, Aharon Even for the Upper Galilee, Issachar-Dov Bar-Drora, who served as the editor-in-chief, and Ovaida Kimhi, a French translator. Moshe Bar-Nissim, a close confidant of Ben-Yehuda, served as a member of the board for many years. Ariah Mohiliver was its chess columnist.
Karniel, a member of the Zikhron Ya'akov colony, and began his career at HaZvi, wrote a weekly satirical section from 1920 to 1928 under the title "Through the Disguise of Lessons in Looking" under his pseudonym of "Azmot". In the early 1930s, when Ben-Avi returned as an editor, he was co-appointed to manage the newspaper, and wrote articles on current affairs until his retirement in August 1933.
Unlike its main competitor, Haaretz, Do'ar HaYom was a daily morning paper. It was sold for a half penny, half the cost of Haaretz and Davar. Ben-Avi imported the first linotype machines. It heavily utilized dramatic, sensationalist headlines, often to the point of hyperbole, and heavy use of pathetic rhetoric. The paper contained many linguistic innovations for early Modern Hebrew. Regarding the competition, Ben-Avi stated "Haaretz may be honest, but it's not a newspaper. Do'ar HaYom may not be honest, but it is a newspaper."
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Do'ar HaYom
Do'ar HaYom (Hebrew: דואר היום, lit. 'Daily Mail') also known as the Palestine Daily Mail, was a Hebrew-language newspaper that ran in the British Mandate for Palestine from 1919 to 1936 and was edited by Itamar Ben-Avi.
At its peak, the daily circulation of the newspaper reached 7,000 copies.
Do'ar HaYom was founded in Jerusalem by a group of activists native to the region who opposed the growing Russian-Jewish influence on Haaretz, and believed there was little passion behind their journalism. Among the founders of the paper included Menachem Asher Sapir, Alexander Aaronsohn, Peretz Dagan-Kornfeld, Isaiah Karniel, and Oved Ben-Ami, Ashkenazi Jews, as well as Shlomo Kalmi, Yitzhak Avraham Abadi, and Avraham Elmalih, Sephardic Jews. The project was headed by Itamar Ben-Avi, the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who began his career in editing under his father's papers prior to World War I.
The goal of the paper was to serve as representation for old Sephardic families of Jerusalem, as well as for the second (younger) generation of the First Aliyah. The political orientation was center-right, and the newspaper found itself growing further apart from the growing movement of socialist beliefs in many leaders of the Old Yishuv.
The headquarters of Do'ar HaYom were located on HaSolel Street in Jerusalem, which later would be named after Havatzelet, another newspaper from the city.
Many journalists who would become quite influential in Israel began their careers at the newspaper, including Uri Keisari, who was their correspondant in Paris and editorial secretary, Oved Ben-Ami, who was a reporter in Petah Tikvah, Aharon Even for the Upper Galilee, Issachar-Dov Bar-Drora, who served as the editor-in-chief, and Ovaida Kimhi, a French translator. Moshe Bar-Nissim, a close confidant of Ben-Yehuda, served as a member of the board for many years. Ariah Mohiliver was its chess columnist.
Karniel, a member of the Zikhron Ya'akov colony, and began his career at HaZvi, wrote a weekly satirical section from 1920 to 1928 under the title "Through the Disguise of Lessons in Looking" under his pseudonym of "Azmot". In the early 1930s, when Ben-Avi returned as an editor, he was co-appointed to manage the newspaper, and wrote articles on current affairs until his retirement in August 1933.
Unlike its main competitor, Haaretz, Do'ar HaYom was a daily morning paper. It was sold for a half penny, half the cost of Haaretz and Davar. Ben-Avi imported the first linotype machines. It heavily utilized dramatic, sensationalist headlines, often to the point of hyperbole, and heavy use of pathetic rhetoric. The paper contained many linguistic innovations for early Modern Hebrew. Regarding the competition, Ben-Avi stated "Haaretz may be honest, but it's not a newspaper. Do'ar HaYom may not be honest, but it is a newspaper."