Jedi'ot group

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The seat of Jedi'ot Acharonot in Tel Aviv

The Jedi'ot Group (English spelling Yedioth Group or Yedioth Media Group ) is the largest media company in Israel . It is majority owned by the Mozes and Fishman families.

Holdings

The group has interests in various print and electronic media companies including:

  • Jedi'ot Acharonot , a national tabloid , the core publication of the Jedi'ot group. With around 600,000 copies (as of 2005), it is the country's daily newspaper with the highest circulation and the most widely read Hebrew-language newspaper of all. The paper, which was founded by Nachum Komarov in 1939, soon changed into the ownership of Yehuda Mozes, whose descendants are still majority shareholders in the Jedi'ot Group. Due to the significant further media involvement of the owners, the newspaper wasclassifiedas a monopoly by the Israeli cartel watchdog in 1999 and again in 1999.
  • Yedioth Books (also known as Yedioth Acharonoth Books or Yedioth Publications), a book publisher
  • Kanal 2 , a private television station launched in 1993
  • Hot , a cable television station founded in 2003
  • Yediot Tikshoret , the largest group of regional weekly newspapers in Israel
  • Vesti , the most popular national Russian-language newspaper in Israel, founded in 1988
  • Kull al-Arab , the most popular daily newspaper in Arabic in Israel, is also distributed in some neighboring Arabic-speaking countries. 75% of the shares are held by Arab business people, 25% by the Jedi'ot Group (as of 2006)
  • 24 Daqot, a free newspaper founded in 2008
  • Kalkalist, a business newspaper founded on workdays in 2008; this includes the business internet portal Catalyst
  • over 20 popular magazines, including Health & Life Style, Men, Laisha
  • Ynet , the most visited Israeli news portal
  • Ynetnews , English language news and content website in Israel, founded in 2005
  • Yedioth Information Technologies, the group's IT subsidiary

The group is also involved in a number of companies outside the media sector.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Media Aid: Israel - Hebrew- and English-Language Media Guide (PDF; 1.4 MB), Ed .: FAS Director of National Intelligence - Open Source Center, September 16, 2008
  2. ↑ a b c The press in Israel . BBC Monitoring, May 8, 2006; accessed on November 16, 2014.